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VATICAN CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order and humanitarian group, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.
The change, which the pope issued in a decree, came after five years of often acrimonious debate within the order and between some top members of the old guard and the Vatican over a new constitution that some feared would weaken its sovereignty.
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Future Grand Masters will be elected for 10-year terms, renewable only once, and will have to step down at age 85.
Reformers, backed by the Vatican, had called for a more transparent government to bring in fresh blood and allow the order to better respond to the massive growth it has seen in recent years.
originally posted by: MetalThunder
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Pardon my Word association disorder
originally posted by: Guyfriday
Could it be as simple as "A" st and 17th street? There is two right there in DC. There is a 17th Street Southeast & "A"st Southeast, as well as just a block or two away 17th Street Northeast &"A" Street Northeast.
Though if you want to get Conspiratorial over this, follow both "A" Streets down to 17st Street Northwest and you'll see that the WW II Memorial would be sitting at that location. Maxwell said ghosts, War Memorials have the lots.
Opened on April 29, 2004, it was dedicated by President George W. Bush on May 29, 2004. The memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group. More than 4.6 million people visited the memorial in 2018.
Wreath Presenters From the 30 Allied Countries at the WWII Memorial 2015 VE Day Ceremony - WWII Memorial
The memorial consists of 56 granite pillars, each 17 feet (5.2 m) tall, arranged in a semicircle around a plaza with two 43-foot (13 m) triumphal arches on opposite sides. Two-thirds of the 7.4-acre (3.0 ha) site is landscaping and water. Each pillar is inscribed with the name of one of the 48 U.S. states of 1945, as well as the District of Columbia, the Alaska Territory and Territory of Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The northern arch is inscribed with "Atlantic"; the southern one, "Pacific." The plaza is 337 ft 10 in (102.97 m) long and 240 ft 2 in (73.20 m) wide, is sunk 6 feet (1.8 m) below grade, and contains a pool that is 246 feet 9 inches by 147 feet 8 inches (75.2 m × 45.0 m).
The memorial includes two inconspicuously located "Kilroy was here" engravings. Their inclusion in the memorial acknowledges the significance of the symbol to American soldiers during World War II and how it represented their presence and protection wherever it was inscribed.
Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers clutching the wall.
"Mr Chad" or just "Chad" was the version that became popular in the United Kingdom. The character of Chad may have been derived from a British cartoonist in 1938, possibly pre-dating "Kilroy was here". According to Dave Wilton, "Some time during the war, Chad and Kilroy met, and in the spirit of Allied unity merged, with the British drawing appearing over the American phrase." Other names for the character include Smoe, Clem, Flywheel, Private Snoops, Overby, Eugene the Jeep, and Sapo.
Chad was used by the RAF and civilians; he was known in the army as Private Snoops, and in the navy he was called The Watcher. Chad might have first been drawn by British cartoonist George Edward Chatterton in 1938. Chatterton was nicknamed "Chat", which may then have become "Chad". Life Magazine wrote in 1946 that the RAF and army were competing to claim him as their own invention, but they agreed that he had first appeared around 1944. The character resembles Alice the Goon, a character in Popeye who first appeared in 1933, and another name for Chad was "The Goon".
A spokesman for the Royal Air Force Museum London suggested in 1977 that Chad was probably an adaptation of the Greek letter omega, used as the symbol for electrical resistance; his creator was probably an electrician in a ground crew.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Doesn't Malta control the Vatican? I find it convenient for a group within the Vatican to be named the same thing, so that the Pope can "Officially" disband one group while the real power can stay hidden.
Between this move and the Vatican Banking issue, I think something is going to break. Something big.
Pope Francis overhauls Order of Malta
The order has been in a protracted process of constitutional reform since 2017. After years of gridlock, Pope Francis gave Tomasi new powers last October to change the knights’ religious life and internal governance, despite concerns that this could violate the order’s sovereign status in international law.
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The papal decree began with a preamble asserting that the sovereign institution had “always enjoyed special protection from the Apostolic See.” It recalled historic instances of papal interventions in the order.
It also noted that as the organization is a religious order, “it depends, in its various articulations, on the Holy See.”
He added that the whole order required a “profound spiritual, moral and institutional renewal,” and not only the order’s small number of professed knights, who have made vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Tony Podesta > wrote:
John --
Hosting pizza party at Belmont for HFA on April 10.
Maya Harris is joining, but need you.
Can you come?
Thanks much,
Tony
John,
Awesome. Let's figure out what you want to do after the politics & prose reading. So, then I can confirm you at 8:30 this Thursday to say a few words at Comet?
See you soon,
James
In late April 2015, three California residents were arrested and charged with impersonating police officers: 46-year-old David Henry, 56-year-old Tonette Hayes and 31-year-old Brandon Kiel, a community affairs liaison for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
The trio claimed to be the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, an allegedly ancient policing force tracing its roots as far back as the Knights Templar, then yet further, to 3,000 years ago.
As the Sacramento Bee reports, the group came onto the radar of real law enforcement after sending letters to police departments all over California announcing its presence. An investigation was initiated after the trio — two wearing police uniforms — walked into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office in early 2015.
Kiel and his associates were arrested on April 30, when multiple law enforcement agencies eventually raided two houses associated with the group, discovering "badges, identification cards, weapons, uniforms, police type vehicles and other law enforcement equipment," according to the Guardian.
Kiel was charged with six counts of impersonating a police officer and unlawful use of a state ID; Hayes was charged with four counts of impersonating an officer; and Henry was charged with multiple misdemeanors and three counts of felony perjury. Prosecutors later accused all three of perjury and conspiracy to commit perjury by obtaining fee-exempt license plates from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The case fell apart in April 2016, when Henry, who considered himself the chief of the MFPD, died from a pulmonary embolism. All charges against Kiel were subsequently dropped after his lawyer argued the search warrant used by police during their raid did not include Kiel's Ford Mustang, which was government-issued, nor his laptop. Hayes pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of a badge and was sentenced to three years probation.
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