Read this from Jill Stanek on the ethics trial to disbar former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline for investigating the failure of Planned Parenthood and late-term abortionist George Tiller to report statutory rape cases involving 164 girls 14 years old and younger.
Breaking: Planned Parenthood, Tiller failed to report 164 cases of child statutory rape
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Quotation: Pope Pius XI
Doing some research on pope's of the Church again, and I came across this pro-life quotation from Pope Pius XI who reigned as Pope from 1922 - 1939. Anyway, here is the quote:
"However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent."
-- Pope Pius XI
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Popes With The Longest and Shortest Reigns
Stuff I learned while researching other stuff.
I always do some research for the blogs, and occasionally I find something of interest (to me anyway) that I like to share with our readers. Below are lists of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church with the longest and the shortest reigns:
Popes with the longest reigns
The 10 longest-reigning popes whose reign lengths can be determined from contemporary historical data are the following:
1. Pius IX (1846–1878): 31 years, 7 months and 23 days (11,560 days)
2. John Paul II (1978–2005): 26 years, 5 months and 17 days (9,665 days)
3. Leo XIII (1878–1903): 25 years, 5 months and 1 day (9,281 days)
4. Pius VI (1775–1799): 24 years, 6 months and 15 days (8,962 days)
5. Adrian I (772–795): 23 years, 10 months and 25 days (8,729 days)
6. Pius VII (1800–1823): 23 years, 5 months and 7 days (8,560 days)
7. Alexander III (1159–1181): 21 years, 11 months and 24 days (8,029 days)
8. St. Sylvester I (314–335): 21 years, 11 months and 1 day (8,005 days)
9. St. Leo I (440–461): 21 years, 1 month, and 13 days. (7,713 days)
10. Urban VIII (1623–1644): 20 years, 11 months and 24 days (7,664 days)
Popes with the shortest reigns
This is a list of the 11 shortest-reigning popes:
1. Urban VII (15–27 September 1590): 13 days (died before coronation)
2. Boniface VI (April, 896): 16 days
3. Celestine IV (25 October – 10 November 1241): 17 days (died before consecration)
4. Theodore II (December 897): 20 days
5. Sisinnius (15 January – 4 February 708): 21 days
6. Marcellus II (9 April – 1 May 1555): 22 days
7. Damasus II (17 July – 9 August 1048): 24 days
8. Pius III (22 September – 18 October 1503): 27 days
9. Leo XI (1–27 April 1605): 27 days
10. Benedict V (22 May – 23 June 964): 33 days
11. John Paul I (26 August – 28 September 1978): 34 days
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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