When St. Augustine had introduced the practice of monasticism to the African Church, he had written De Opera Monachorum, establishing the rule of work and study in the monasteries. This was the tradition taken to Irish monasticism ..... Pope Pius XI, while a bishop doing research at Milan's Ambrosiano library, wrote "the Renaissance of all Christian science and culture in France, Germany and Italy is due to the labors and zeal of Columban and his followers and successors. ...
In his writing ?Regula monachorum? which describes the monastic life, he wrote that ?God has made no difference between the soul of the slave and that of the freedman.? Circa 600 CE: Pope Gregory I wrote, in Pastoral Rule: ?Slaves should be told?not [to] despise their masters and ...... In his zeal to provide evidence for evolution, de Vries had presumptuously proclaimed tetraploid Oenotheras to be a new species This was in spite of direct evidence to the contrary. ...
