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This paper looks at the journey of eleven counsellors in marital counselling centres in French-speaking Belgium, from the creation of the centres in 1953, to the 1970s, when contraception became legal, and abortion became a public issue.... more
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      SociologyContraceptionMedicineRoman Catholicism
Until the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, the Catholic Church had an almost unchallenged monopoly on public education in French Canada. Generations of French Canadian children were taught at the primary and secondary levels by various... more
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      Ancient HistoryMythologyCanadian HistoryHistory of Roman Catholicism
I recently published a book about the theological, canonical and practical elements involved in forming a new religious community in the Catholic Church. This paper provides the way to purchase the book, its description and the table... more
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      ReligionSpiritualityRoman CatholicismNuns
History shows that a commitment to solus Christus is based upon Scripture and the earliest Christian documents. Commitment to this doctrine was lost, though, after extra-biblical and traditional elements entered the church and became... more
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      Reformation StudiesOrthodox TheologyCatholic TheologySacramental Theology
Knjiga "Iskrice sv. Ignacija: Misli sv. Ignacija Lojolskog za svaki dan u godini tumači Gábor Hevenesi". Kuče, Marignacija d. o. o., 2021., 394 str., 2 slike. Preveo Jozo Vela. Uredila i Pogovor napisala Marica Čunčić. Ova je knjiga dio... more
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      Catholic TheologyWisdom LiteratureRoman CatholicismCatholic Moral Theology
This paper deals with the relation between God and the secular legal systems of Western liberal democracies. It provides a normative argument for the compatibility of God and secular legal reasoning. In our age, in which believing in God... more
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      Canon LawConstitutional LawPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy Of Religion
PROGRAMMA 8:45 SALUTI INIZIALI 9:00 RELAZIONE INTRODUTTIVA Antonio Castellano, Carlos García Andrade, Luca Bianchi 9:40 CARISMA FRANCESCANO E MISSIONE ACCADEMICA Raffaele Di Muro, Carlos Salto Solà 10:20 PAUSA 10:50 CARISMA SALESIANO E... more
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      Franciscan StudiesRoman CatholicismUniversityCatholic Church
PROLOGUE of this paper is an extreme detail analysis of Chartres Cathedral's the symbolism embedded into the three Rose Windows. The whole purpose of this paper is to illustrate how Ezekiel's Merkabah is symbolized by the North and South... more
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      IconographyIconoclasmAstrologyMysticism
Vers la fin de sa vie, saint Bernard explique comment les questions temporelles ne sont qu'accessoires; l'essentiel est la piété, la prière et la méditation qui portent à l'action.
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      Roman CatholicismBernard of ClairvauxCatholic SpiritualityChurch Fathers
This was a research paper for a course entitled Feminist and Multicultural Theologies. I unpack what gender complementarianism is, examine its history, and compare it to how Scripture and earlier Christian Tradition understood gender.... more
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      HistoryGender StudiesEthicsNormative Ethics
Articles on Redemptorists in the United States and Canada, including an essay on two confreres who were periti at Vatican II.
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      History of Roman CatholicismRoman CatholicismTheology and History of Vatican IIReligious Life
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      Local HistoryRoman CatholicismHistoric CemeteryPiarists
Here are the first pages of my new book on general sacramental theology.
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      Liturgical StudiesCatholic StudiesCatholic TheologyThomas Aquinas
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      Canon LawRoman CatholicismDiritto CanonicoDroit Canonique
Purple Hibiscus is an African postcolonial Gothic tale cautioning and warning against the falsely assumed sense of absolutism of the Roman Catholic Church and its definitive contestation with the concept of tradition. Adichie’s... more
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      African StudiesWorld LiteraturesEnglish LiteratureAfrican History
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      European HistoryCanon LawEuropean CatholicismItalian Studies
This article explores a wide range of issues linked to the central theme: the use of the smartphone in the period of early formation of candidates intending to join the Salesians of Don Bosco. It begins with a brief presentation of the... more
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      CommunicationEducationCatholic StudiesDigital Media
DEATH AND THE INTERMEDIATE STATE: COMPARISON OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC, ORTHODOX, AND PROTESTANT DOCTRINAL VIEWS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN’S ETERNAL STATE PAPER TYPE: Synthesis and Expository THESIS STATEMENT: The study will contrast and... more
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      Death & Dying (Thanatology)Orthodox TheologyProtestantismAnglicanism (Anglicanism)
Rhetorical functions of media are outlined in the Platonic and Biblical traditions and applied to 2019ʹs "Pachamama" YouTube iconoclepsis ("image-stealing") controversy. Where post-Enlightenment theory brackets or dismisses spiritual... more
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      CommunicationPlatoRoman CatholicismProtest and resistance
GRAHAM GREENE’S CATHOLICISM: FIRST, AN INTELLECTUAL BELIEF IN GOD THE POWER AND THE GLORY II In this second bulletin, I outline the first two of three forms of Greene’s religion: 1) the Erastian public school Anglicanism undergirding... more
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      PsychoanalysisMarxismGraham GreeneAnglicanism (Anglicanism)
Espoir utopique d’une période, le thème de la « conversion de l’Angleterre » a structuré de nombreuses initiatives missionnaires du catholicisme anglais entre les années 1830 et 1990. Le présent article s’intéresse plus particulièrement à... more
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      HistoryMissionary HistoryFranceEngland
Pourquoi l'illusion qu'on peut séparer le marxisme de l'athéisme se maintient-elle? Comme l‘a remarqué G.M.-M.Cottier O.P., c'est au moment où le mouvement marxiste donne des signes de crise qu'un nombre croissant de chrétiens semblent... more
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      ReligionPhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy Of Religion
The course is a journey through 250 years of Italian history, from the French revolution to the current pontificate of Pope Francis. The aim is to capture fundamental moments and issues in the religious life of the Italian people. While... more
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      Italian (European History)Modern Italian HistoryItalian StudiesCatholic Studies
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      Roman CatholicismBrisbaneAustralian Religions
The primary purpose of this article is to analyze the government-debt crisis in Greece between 2008 and 2015 from a historical and psychological perspective, utilizing Jungian theory of archetypes. Thus, the proposed archetypes,... more
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      Intellectual HistoryPhilosophical TheologyOrthodox TheologyArchetypes
Nowadays the Roman Catholic Church is one of the leading in the confes- sional structure and missionary activity of Christianity, not only in Europe, but also in a number of countries in Asia, Africa and South America. In many re- gions... more
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      ChristianityPhilosophy Of ReligionHistory of Roman CatholicismRoman Catholicism
Chapter 3 in Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent Little, eds. _Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition_. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2017. 78-98. Discusses Flannery... more
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      Catholic StudiesContemporary French Philosophy20th Century French Literature20th Century American Literature
In this article, I am not interested in providing an elaborate analysis of mutual dependency between politics and religion - even if I agree that such a relationship exists and that it has very important social arrangements and... more
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      Sociology of ReligionPublic OpinionPolandRoman Catholicism
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      HistoryAgricultural HistoryRoman CatholicismPillarisation (Verzuiling)
The question, “Is Jesus a man, God, or both?” is the most important question anyone can look to answer in this life because to answer it wrongly results in an eternity separated from God.
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      New TestamentTrinityEvangelicalismMormonism
To Avoid misunderstanding, I should note at once that my point of view is here not that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, but that of the concrete logic of the events of history. From the first point of view, that of the mere... more
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      ChristianityPhilosophyPolitical PhilosophySecular Humanism
In their annual festival in an eastern village of the Yucatan state, participants verbalized, discussed, and disputed two main understandings of Catholic commitment after a Catholic priest asked his parishioners to reconsider the effects... more
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      Ritual (Anthropology)Roman CatholicismCommitmentMayas
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      Welfare StateConservatismFederalismSwiss History
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      ReligionEarly Modern HistoryReformation HistoryReformation Studies
Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. " Penned by John Donne, this sonnet verse proclaims man's attempt to face the inevitability of death without fear. It is a cultural tool used to... more
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      SociologySociology of ReligionCultureMedia
The Bamiléké of Cameroon have long believed that after the corpses of their ancestors have rotted they can be exhumed and the skulls used to communicate with the spirits of the dead, as well as their godhead, to receive spiritual... more
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      Death StudiesDeath & Dying (Thanatology)West AfricaCult of Saints
U.S. Catholic 67 (December 2002) 12-15.
A reflection on the Advent celebration of the Posadas in light of the US wanting to close itself off to immigrants.
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      ChristianityLatino/A StudiesMexican StudiesSpirituality
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      Material Culture StudiesAnthropology of ChristianitySecularizationSacred (Religion)
In "Was the Reformation a Mistake?" Matthew Levering examines the Protestant Reformation from an epistemological perspective, that is, whether the reformers correctly challenged the truth claims of the Roman Catholic Church. The subtitle... more
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      TheologyReformation HistoryLutheranismHistory of Roman Catholicism
Collected Works of Erasmus: Annotations on Galatians and Ephesians, edited by Riemer A. Faber. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. The Sixteenth Century Journal 50.3 (2019) 989–90.
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      ChristianityNew TestamentRenaissance HumanismScholarly Editions
La crise de l'Église catholique de France est devenue un lieu commun sociologique : 56 % des Français se disent encore catholiques mais seulement 4,5 % assistent à la messe chaque semaine. En Europe, la France est aujourd'hui l'un des... more
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      Sociology of ReligionHistory of Roman CatholicismRoman CatholicismContemporary french sociology
During the years in which France succumbed to nazi ideology and was occupied by German forces, Henri de Lubac, a French cardinal and one of the great contemporary thinkers the Catholic Church can boast of, played a decisive role in the... more
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      Jewish StudiesTheologyHistorical TheologyPractical theology
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      ChristianityHistoryAncient HistoryTheology
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      Jewish - Christian RelationsRoman CatholicismMessianic Judaism
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      ReligionTheologyCatholic TheologyEcclesiology