Is the Pope the Pope?

What Islam needs is a pope.

The age-old ploy of justifying the commission of atrocities by one group by citing examples of atrocities committed by another must be condemned. Evil deeds remain evil deeds, and evil and evil deeds beget evil deeds. Our only hope is to stop focusing on the bad and start focusing on the good. For conflicting ideologies to learn tolerance for each other, common moral ground must be found. What ...

Papal Responses to the Holocaust: Contrast between Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II

Pope Gregory, the Calendar, and Continued Fractions

The success of many activities of modern civilization crucially depends on careful planning. Some activities should be carried out during a certain period of the year. For example: When is the right time of the year to sow, when is the right time to plow? It is thus no surprise that calendars are found in literally every ancient civilization. The earth revolves around the sun in about 365.2422 ...

Status : Proposed Standard Nick Pope

This document updates RFC 3161 [RFC3161]. It allows the use of ESSCertIDv2 defined in RFC 5035 [ESSV2] to specify the hash of a signer certificate when the hash is calculated with a function other than SHA-1 [SHA1]. Table of

Economics of Charity POPE BENEDICT ' S '

Catholic social teaching, whether promulgated by Ambrose of Milan in the fourth century or Benedict XVI in the twenty-first, has always been contextual. The themes emphasized, although consistent in their fundamental doctrinal commitments, have shifted depending on the problems Christians faced. Papal encyclicals written after the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, moved away from an even-h...