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The rescript was published today, Feb. 21, following an audience that Pope Francis granted on Feb. 20 to Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline ...

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Instead, the rescript said a superior general, with the consent of his council, can appoint a brother to be the local or provincial superior of a religious order with both brothers and priests.

PREWAR RESCRIPT BACK TO SCHOOL. The Imperial Rescript on Education has recently drawn public attention when an Osaka kindergarten was found to have been making kids there memorize it. Video footage ...

The Imperial Rescript on Education, which was issued by Emperor Meiji in 1890, was rejected in postwar Japan. Nevertheless, moves to cling to it and defend it as entailing universal values show no ...

TOKYO (AP) — Opposition politicians on Tuesday criticized a decision by Japan's Cabinet to allow schools to study a 19th century imperial order on education that was banned after World War II ...

The emperor read the surrender rescript into a microphone. The recording was four minutes and 45 seconds long; the English translation, broadcast overseas the same day, totaled just 652 words.