
Michael Frassetto
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Independent scholar and adjunct instructor of history at the University of Delaware, Newark. Author of Heretic Lives and others.
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Roman Catholicism, Christian religion that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity. It is led by the pope, as the bishop of Rome, and the Holy See forms theā¦
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