UniversityMantillaUniversityJournal of Religious and Political PracticeMantilla, L. F. 2016. "Church-State Relations and the Decline of Catholic Parties in Latin America." Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2 (2): 231-248. doi:10.1080/20566093.2016.1181383....
Bruchesi, Archbishop of Montreal, surrounded by several archbishops and bishops, consecrated the abbatial church. The Abbey of Our Lady of the Lake had in 1908, according to statistics, 120 inmates, including the oblates. This name is given to boys of eleven to fifteen years who are ...
The following statistics of the religious denominations of California given below were presented by the United States Census of 1890, published in 1894. The total number of churches was 1505; total value of church property, $11,961,914; total number of communicants, 280,619. Of course, thes...
The official government statistics put the number of "official Christians" at 15 million, but the growth of Christianity in China is a phenomenon of the hounded and persecuted, which by some estimates number 100 million. Some of these congregations, such as Shouwang Church, independent of other...
The Statistics on the Post-Vatican II Decline[PDF File] Why the New Rite of Ordination is Invalid- This article explains why the New Rite of Ordination – which was instituted by Paul VI on June 18, 1968 after Vatican II – is not valid.) ...
No Innovations Unless the Good of the Church Requires Them But back to the Council. In the same paragraph ofSacrosanctum Concilium, no. 14, the Council continues: “In the restoration and promotion of the sacred liturgy, this full and active participation by all the people is the aim to ...
left everything for love of You, took up the yoke of religious life, and after your example became everything to all; Grant, we beseech you, to quickly bring about his elevation to your altar, for your greater glory, for the good of your holy Church, and for the salvation of souls....
Why? Because as a loyal son of the Church, there is no way that the Pope, or indeed any parish priest, would summarily agree to marry a couple on the spot, who came to him to ask that he bless their civil union. You’d need to know whether or not they were both baptised ...
Keith B. Richburg
The thirteenth century was a very prosperous epoch for the Spanish Church: it was then that the Carmelites, Dominicans, and Franciscans were established in the Peninsula, as well as the Order of the Most Holy Trinity for the redemption of captives. For this same object, also, Jaime the ...