That wall is pretty impressive. Well, there we are, a taster of British Roman history in a matter of minutes. The Romans had lots of different gods and goddesses. There were gods for almost ...
[In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious options. It would be like going to a supermarket and being able to sort of shop for God. And you have them at various times in your life ...
Roman religion involved cult worship. Approval from the gods did not depend on a person ... Augures were priests who had been elected for life. Only they had the authority to read and interpret ...
The Capuchin friar was leading a Lenten retreat for cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia ... that eternal life has already begun; it is manifested in the way we live and love, opening ...
Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion – this was one of the only aspects of life they shared. Some of the main gods and goddesses in Roman religion were Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
In contrast, Zuchtriegel explains, were the women who emulated the goddess Venus and lived by the dictates of Roman society. “The question is, what do you want to be in life, the hunter or the ...
While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...
The Roman Catholic Church has consistently ... who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right ...