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The Tale of Two Lovers (Latin: Historia de duobus amantibus) (1444) is a novel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II. It is one of the earliest examples of an epistolary novel, full of erotic imagery. The first printed edition was published by Ulrich Zell in Cologne between 1467 and 1470.
Pope Pius' opening address was frank and detailed in cataloguing the shortcomings and faults of the luxurious lifestyle of the cardinals, and their activities on behalf of monarchs rather than the church: "Your lifestyle is such that you would appear to have been chosen, not to govern the state, but called to enjoy pleasures.
Pope Pius II: Bishop of Spoleto; legate a latere in Perugia: Niccolò Fortiguerra: Pistoia: Priest of S. Cecilia 1460, March 5 Pope Pius II (Cardinal-nephew) Bishop of Teano; Supreme Commander of Papal Fleet Burchard of Weissbruch: German: Priest of SS. Nereo ed Achilleo 1460, March 5 Pope Pius II: Archbishop of Salzburg: Jean Jouffroy, O.S.B ...
Casti connubii (Latin: "of chaste wedlock") [1] is a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius XI on 31 December 1930 in response to the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion. It stressed the sanctity of marriage , prohibited Catholics from using any form of artificial birth control , and reaffirmed the prohibition on abortion .
Ineffabilis Deus was one of the pivotal events of the papacy of Pius, pope from 16 June 1846 to his death on 7 February 1878. [46] Four years after the proclamation of the dogma, in 1858, the young Bernadette Soubirous said that Mary appeared to her at Lourdes in southern France, to announce that she was the Immaculate Conception; the Catholic ...
Why more people get pregnant during the holidays than any other time. ... The researchers also found that those living in the southern states showed a 45 percent surge in quick conceptions during ...
The Liber Pontificalis (Latin for 'pontifical book' or Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II (867–872) or Pope Stephen V (885–891), [1] but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV (1431–1447) and then Pope Pius II (1458–1464 ...
More than 64,000 women and girls became pregnant because of rape in states that implemented abortion bans after Roe v. Wade was overruled, according to a new research estimate published online ...