The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is a particular church of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States. Its ecclesiastic territory includes
Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in Florida. The archdiocese is the
metropolitan see for the Roman Catholic Church in the State of Florida. The
current archbishop is John Favalora. As archbishop, Favalora also serves as
pastor of the Cathedral of Saint Mary, the mother church of the archdiocese.
Also serving are 428 priests, 160 Permanent Deacons, 50 Religious Brothers
and 300 Religious Sisters who are members of various Roman Catholic
religious orders. These priests, deacons and religious serve a Catholic
population in South Florida of 1,300,000 in 118 parishes and missions.
Because of the vast number of immigrants, Catholic Mass is offered in at
least a dozen languages in parishes throughout the archdiocese. The diocese
runs educational institutions, radio, print, and television media outlets,
social service organizations, and several charities. Catholic Charities of
the Archdiocese of Miami, is a separate non-profit organization operated by
the archdiocese. It claims to be the largest non-governmental provider of
social services to the needy in South Florida.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1425:
Pope Martin V issued a papal bull establishing the Catholic University of
Leuven, the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_University_of_Leuven)
1856:
Anglo-Persian War: Bushehr, a city on the southwestern coast of the Persian
Gulf in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr)
1905:
Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the
Chamber of Deputies of France, triggering civil disobedience by French
Catholics.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separation_of_the_Churc…
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1968:
The NLS, a computer collaboration system that was the first to employ the
practical use of hypertext, the computer mouse, and other modern computing
concepts, was publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)<http://en.wikipedia.o…
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1990:
Lech Wałęsa became the first President of Poland to be elected in a direct
presidential election after the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Torschlusspanik (n) The fear that time is running out to act, specifically
in regards to a border closing.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is
always personal, or at the best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness
with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace
to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and
undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the
ethical progress of man, mutual support — not mutual struggle — has had the
leading part.
--Peter Kropotkin
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin)