The drift away from normative lifelong monogamous marriage seems to be as old as the human race. That seems to me to be what Our Lord meant when He said: "Moses told you so [allowing divorce] because of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so." Jesus had asked "What did Moses teach you [about marriage]?" And he had been ( Read more... )

Both incarnations of the Roman Empire in Europe began and ended with the same names. The Roman Empire, founded by a man called Augustus, had as its last emperor in the West a man called Romulus Augustus - and Romulus was the name of the legendary founder of the city of Rome ( Read more... )