VENEZUELA: CATHOLIC CHURCH CALLS FOR DIALOGUE TO DEFUSE TENSIONAndrés Cañizález
The Bolivarian government of Venezuela has made an extraordinary deployment of its forces to rescue and protect the lives of people affected by torrential rains that have caused damages in 11 states of Venezuela. Special attention has been focused on the state of Mérida, that has suffered treme...
the Church and her relation with society. It is important for Catholics to have knowledge about their own faith and Church, especially since these are frequently misrepresented in many places. With this blog I want to inform the wider world of what is going on in the Church in the ...
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This article develops a novel interpretation of this phenomenon, arguing that changes in the structure of religious communities and church–society relations resulting from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council account for the absence of new Catholic parties. Empirically,it explores this topic ...
Gabriel García Moreno was the initiator of a church-oriented dictatorship in Ecuador (1861–75). His rule, oppressive but often effective in its reformist aims, eventually cost him his life. García Moreno was educated at the university in Quito and in
Drawing upon the theme of “hope,” Francis prayed for political authorities in Myanmar, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Cyprus, to bring back peace in their countries. “May they work, especially in this jubilee year, to advance the common good and respect the dignity of each per...
The family begins in marriage, which, in the Church,is a sacrament. Marriage can only take place between a biological man and a biological woman. A true and actual marriage is an indissoluble union which must be "open to life" -- that is, artificial contraception cannot licitly be used....
The salaries of those in the service of the Church were ordered to be discontinued at the expiration of a year. The existing churchyards were secularized, and the question of the establishment of new cemeteries was left in the hands of individual communities. Religious bodies, however, could ...
This king is said to have made the “Vow of Santiago”, by which he bound himself to pay a certain tribute to the Church of Compostela. Modern critics pronounce the document apocryphal, but the national tradition loses none of its force thereby. Ordono I emulated the exploits of Ramiro, ...