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What does the West owe to Christianity and Islam?: Catholic Social Teaching
Pray and work In 529, Benedict of Nursia established a monastery at Monte Cassino and wrote a Rule. Welcome every stranger as Christ. Feed the hungry. Tend the sick. Preserve the books. Work with your hands.... What does the West owe to Christianity and Islam?: The Story
The surgeon who doesn’t know In 1088, students in Bologna organized themselves into a universitas — a legal corporation with elected rectors and the right to grant degrees. The model spread to Paris, Oxford, Cambridge. Every one was a Church institution. The faculty were clergy....