By the time it had reached its zenith during the second-century of the Common Era, the Roman Empire had developed into one of the greatest civilizations the ancient world had ever known. Cities scattered across an imperial region that stretched from the North Sea to the Red Sea had flourished under a well-ordered governing body housed in Rome. These regional centers stood unfortified in the cou...

My previous essay in this series' drew attention to three main areas of inquiry concerning church governance in the first-century church in Rome: (1) an ancient Roman political governance pattern which may have furnished a background for the type of ecclesiastical governance used in that first-century Christian community, (2) pertinent contemporary Christian documents, and (3) ancient non-conte...

This report describes the state of the research and practice in the areas of metadata management systems. Open source and industrial products are presented and compared. Thereout we identified functional and non-functional requirements relevant for the TEAM project. Project co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technology” Programme, Framework Programme 6. D5: Repo...

The purpose of the research is to highlight prerequisites and conditions for development organ singing performances Roman Catholics in Galicia at intersection nineteenth twentieth centuries, which influenced current state church music development. Research methodology. Based on principles objectivity impartiality, Catholic since century are considered. comparative-historical method used draw ch...

The article is devoted to the menologion (calendar of saints) compiled in 20th century for Russian Byzantine Catholics. latter are a church community with its own Byzantine-Slavic worship and piety, which follow both Catholic Eastern spiritual traditions. Like entire liturgical literature Catholics, was created Rome under auspices Congregation Churches, as part activities Apostolate, i.e., miss...

136 glasses from the ninth-century monastery of San Vincenzo and its workshops have been analysed by electron microprobe in order to situate the assemblage within the first millennium CE glass making tradition. The majority of the glass compositions can be paralleled by Roman glass from the first to third centuries, with very few samples consistent with later compositional groups. Colours for t...

In the United States, Catholics make up more than 50 million members of adult population, or about one in five Americans. It is unclear whether their religious affiliation shapes Catholics’ views on public policy issues, ranging from legality abortion to criminal justice practices. Capital punishment especially salient, given that Pope Francis announced 2018—as official Catholic Church teaching...

ABSTRACTThe phenomenon of wearing a face veil in Ende City has received rather negative response from Catholics. The Catholics think that the worn by Muslim women created social and emotional distance disrupts kinship system Muslims same ethnic culture. This study explores analyzes motivation for veil, reasons behind Catholics, negotiation efforts made responding to accommodating local culture ...

For a graph property P and a graph G, a subset S of the vertices of G is a P-set if the subgraph induced by S has the property P. A P-Roman dominating function on a graph G is a labeling f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex with label 0 has a neighbor with label 2 and the set of all vertices with label 1 or 2 is a P-set. The P-Roman domination number γPR(G) of G is the minimum of Σv∈V (...