History of Roman Catholicism

Book Review. Broadley, M. J. (ed.) Bishop Herbert Vaughan and the Jesuits: Education and Authority. Catholic Record Society Publications: Record Series Volume 82, 2010.

by Jonathan Westaway

Book Review
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (forthcoming)

Summary of Pacelli Canonization: Christendom as the Schema Pius XII used to view the Third Reich

by Thomas Driscoll

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

by Frank Dougan

My visit to the Holy Sepulchre Basilica, Jerusalem, Israel; February 2012

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank... more Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank Dougan...


Jerusalem

He sat on a donkey on palm strewn paths

Cries of delight arose from the mouths

The First born Son of God Christ Jesus.

To the temple he was led

There the money changers the people were bled

He cast them out of the House of His Father

The Sanhedrin were in a rage

Who is this Man to whom multitudes did gather?

He taught a new ideology of the age.

Secret plans they did form to bring Him down

To rob Him of His holy crown

Pilate and the Roman lords were sought

A price of 30 silver coins His friend was bought

At the Garden of Gethsemane from a kiss He was put in chains

Plans to kill Him for their ill-gotten gains

Pilate washed his hands of the affair he could find no crime

The high priest Caiaphas mind was distorted with grime

On His 6th day in Jerusalem they hung Him on a cross

He called to heaven that none of His sheep were lost

His promise to Peter He would return

The start of a new beginning had begun

Jesus is the Messiah the Chosen One.

He cried out loud before He went away

“Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani”?

His dead corps was taken down and in a crypt buried

On the 3rd day from His death His word delivered

The Son of Man rose from the dead at the hand of Rome

In Jerusalem the spark of light was born Jesus was in His holy home.

By Frank J Dougan


Inside the Basilica of The Holy Sepulchre....is Golgotha (Calvery) where Jesus Christ was executed.....

The Holy Sepulchre Basilica also contains the tomb where Jesus lay...and rose from the dead!

At the foot of where The Cross stood stands the Medici Alter...

Mary Queen of Scots name is inside the Medici Alter!

The Medici Alter was commissioned a few months after Mary was martyrd!

The Alter is on the exact spot where Jesus lay after He was taken down from the cross and Held in His Mother Mary's arms!

Catherine de Medici was the mother Francis II of France....Mary was married to him!

The 11th Station - the Latin (Catholic) chapel.

The chapel's striking altar marks the 11th Station, the site at which Jesus was nailed to the Cross. A fine example of Renaissance art, the altar was made in Florence in 1588 and given to the church by Cardinal Medici a few decades later.

Look for the Medici name. Six panels of hammered silver (four in font and one on each side) depict scenes from the Passion.

— in Jerusalem, Israel.

Missionaria o in pericolo di apostasia? Donne cattoliche e matrimoni misti nei dibattiti del Sant’Ufficio, in: Famiglia e religione nella prima eta` moderna. Saggi in onore di Silvana Seidel Menchi, Hg. Ciappelli, G., Luzzi, S., Rospocher, M. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011), 175-186.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Reading the Corinthian Veils through Hijabs and Habits

by Janelle Peters

In: Intercultural Readings of 1-2 Corinthians: Race, Ritual, Food, and Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013. Presented at SBL 2009.

In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the... more In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the United States to provide a new interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.

Please contact me if you would like to read the manuscript submitted to the publisher.

'Correspondence from Jean-Baptiste Devenet and Claude Prost, book merchants of Lyon, to Fr Luke Wadding OFM, 1647-1654,' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 104 (2011), 519-45.

by Benjamin Hazard

Ostkamp, S., 2009, The world upside down. Secular badges and the iconography of the Late Medieval Period: ordinary pins with multiple meanings, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1.2, 107-125.

by Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries

Thanks to the use of metal detectors vast numbers of Late Medieval pilgrim and secular badges have been found in the... more Thanks to the use of metal detectors vast numbers of Late Medieval pilgrim and secular badges have been found in the Netherlands. The secular badges give us a glimpse into the worldview of Late Medieval ordinary people. The decorative motifs on the badges and on simple knife handles, ceramic plates and other examples of Late Medieval material culture reveal a picture which can also be found in miniatures
in (sometimes famous) Books of Hours. They show that both the elite and the common man availed themselves of a comparable iconography. Besides the amulet function of the badges another meaning is found in the co-existence of comparable religious examples. An obvious explanation can be found in the popular Late Medieval theme of the inversion of the world and its natural order: the world upside down. This was commonly expressed in the representation depicted with or as an anti-image. By contrasting the most holy with the most profane, Late Medieval people emphasized the negative aspects of sins. Both
positive and negative symbols set an example for a lifestyle of chastity. Contemporary standards and values were principally based on the omnipresent Catholic belief system. The secular badges often represent sinners, who in pursuing brief earthly pleasures were seen as serving the devil instead of focussing
on an eternal life by the side of Christ and his saints. In this respect we may even doubt our interpretation of these badges as items of secular meaning. That the images are almost blasphemous indicates the absolute sway of religion in the medieval world, where even striking secular images served a religious function. The provenance of these finds are urban and rural domestic contexts as well as monasteries and
castles. This reveals the importance of chastity to all ranks in Late Medieval society. It is clear that this phenomenon is not typically urban, as sometimes suggested by written sources.

Santo Toribio: The Rise of a Saint

by Tom Evans

MA Thesis - University of Denver, Religious Studies

Santo Toribio (1900-28) was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2000 as a martyr of Mexico’s bloody Cristero... more Santo Toribio (1900-28) was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2000 as a martyr of Mexico’s bloody Cristero Rebellion. He enjoyed a modest local following for decades after the Rebellion as many of the other Cristero martyr-saints did. However around the time of his canonization, a new identity began to emerge different from that of martyr; he became the patron saint of immigration. For believers, Santo Toribio helps mitigate the criminal nature of this act by showing God’s approval and blessing. He places the pain and social distortion of Border crossing in Roman Catholic contexts of holiness and divine intervention. This thesis begins to catalog and analyze the nature of Santo Toribio’s unofficial patronage.

Anatomy of a Cargo Cult: Virginity, Relic Envy, and Hallowed Boxes

by Ryan Byrne

Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus, eds. Ryan Byrne and Bernadette McNary-Zak (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) pp. 137-186

" Each Should Tend His Own Garden": Anna Bijns and the Catholic Polemic against the Reformation

by Judith Pollmann

“Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and the Fate of Catholic Criticism.” American Literary History 15 (2003): 443-470.

by James Emmett Ryan

“Sentimental Catechism: Archbishop James Gibbons, Mass-Print Culture, and American Literary History.” Religion and American Culture 7, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 81-120.

by James Emmett Ryan

The Catholic Church in Cuba, 1959-62, The Clash of Ideologies

by Joseph Holbrook

The International Journal of Cuban Studies

The Catholic Church in Cuba faced unique challenges from 1959 through 1962 during the Cuban Revolution. This paper... more The Catholic Church in Cuba faced unique challenges from 1959 through 1962 during the Cuban Revolution. This paper examines the social and political roles of the Catholic episcopal hierarchy and Catholic lay organizations, during the Batista regime and the first months of the Cuban Revolution. The Church unsuccessfully attempted to compete with the revolutionary ideology through the use of religious and cultural symbolism, processions, mass meetings and pastoral circulars.

The Cuban case served as a benchmark and a warning for the Catholic Church in other nations. The lesson of the Cuban Catholic Church’s ambivalence and eventual fate under the Revolutionary regime was not lost on the Vatican hierarchy. What began as a call for an ecumenical council under Pope John XXIII, was transformed into a major shift of paradigms for the Catholic Church in the Second Vatican Council in the light of the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Spirituality of Liberation in Clare's Process of Canonization

by Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM

in the Cord: A Franciscan Spiritual Review Vol. 52.4 (2002) 142-152.

"Clare also presented herself as an instrument of the care that God had for the sisters and for those in need.... more "Clare also presented herself as an instrument of the care that God had for the sisters and for those in need. ... A Christian Spirituality of liberation is one that leads the Christian to identify with Christ as the Poor and Crucified Lord found in the poor and oppressed peoples of this world. In this identification s/he will be carried forward to the Reign of God by five currents that blend into his/her life of faith: fraternity/sorority, contemplation, the Cross, poverty and the Eucharist."

Les genres populaires sont-ils très catholiques? Les romans d'aventures pour la jeunesse dans les collections Mame

by Matthieu Letourneux

Colloque: La maison Mame à Tours (1796-1975) : deux siècles d’édition pour la jeunesse

Legitimation and Resistance: Bellarmine’s Political Theory amid Contemporaneous Conflicts

by Aaron Sanders

Given at the SCSC, 27 Oct 2011.

Robert Bellarmine's high-profile involvement in early 17th century political contests has typically been interpreted... more Robert Bellarmine's high-profile involvement in early 17th century political contests has typically been interpreted as an attempt to maintain papal political power in a reordered post-Reformation Europe.  In this paper, on the other hand, the author seeks to reposition this involvement as a pastoral activity.  Through more holistic reading of Bellarmine's corpus and re-examination of his historical context, one can begin to see a crucial distinction in Bellarmine's thought, namely, that between what the pope CAN do in temporal matters, and what he OUGHT to do.

Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape

by Matthew Kustenbauder

Vatican letter Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots....Congregation for Causes of Saints

by Frank Dougan

Catholic Encyclopedia

The developing understanding of authority and primacy in Anglican–Roman Catholic–Old Catholic dialogue after the Second Vatican Council

by Peter-Ben Smit

This article explores the way in which Anglican–Old Catholic consultations after the Second Vatican Council addressed... more This article explores the way in which Anglican–Old Catholic consultations after the Second Vatican Council addressed the questions of authority and primacy in the Church. It argues, first, that in the context of their dialogues with each other and with the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicans and Old Catholics have developed a positive understanding of the role of authority and (universal) primacy in the Church. Second, Anglicans are more willing to think of the implementation of a kind of universal primacy than Old Catholics. Third, the question of primacy is, in the dialogues discussed in this article, seen in union with synodality at all levels of ecclesial communion. Fourth, the value attributed to universal primacy has pushed the (Old Catholic) protest against Pastor Aeternus into the background. Fifth, given the agreement on the value of universal primacy, the question not of whether, but rather of how a universal primacy could be received by the Church is legitimate.