Popular/Folk Catholicism

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..

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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.

“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

Clerical Errors: Reading Desire in a Nineteenth-Century Irish Painting

by Joe Nugent

published in Éire-Ireland, 2012

St. Joachim as a Model of Catholic Manhood in Times of AIDS: A Case Study on Masculinity in an African Christian Context

by Adriaan van Klinken

Published in CrossCurrents 61/4 (December 2011), special issue on Embattled Masculinities in Religious Traditions, p. 467-479.

The Development of the Brazilian Country Music and its Relationship with Folia de Reis in Defining Rural Identity

by Welson Tremura

This paper discusses the social and historical facts related to the development of caipira and sertaneja musical... more This paper discusses the social and historical facts related to the development of caipira and sertaneja musical genres and its association to the folia de reis tradition in Brazil. The development of country music throughout the 20th century influenced by various musical forms, gave particular distinction to folia de reis music, carrying out needs and desires of rural
populations. These musical genres expanded and transformed into other types of music, which includes music to express regional identity, to voice social aspirations, and to fulfill religious
obligations.

Just as the Three Kings are in the center of all folia de reis activities, song is in the center of their associations with these Kings. The participants’ usage of guitars, percussion, and other
melodic instruments to express religiosity on a country music base form articulates one fundamental belief in folia de reis tradition: music is a God-given talent and should be used to
intermediate the relationship between humans and the Divine. It is through regional influences that country music has taken different stylistic paths and has became meaningful to people in
rural Brazil. In this research paper, my analysis reveals that country music not only has been developed into a musical genre common to rural Brazil, but transformed into a vehicle to
communicate faith among people in rural Brazil.

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

by Frank Dougan

Catholic Encyclopedia

Santo Toribio: Religion, Politics, and Society

by Tom Evans

Final Report for BYU ORCA Undergraduate Grant

Santo Toribio died as a martyr of the Cristero Rebellion in 1929, but beginning in the 1980’s stories began... more Santo Toribio died as a martyr of the Cristero Rebellion in 1929, but beginning in the 1980’s stories began circulating concerning his miraculous intervention while helping migrants cross the border from Mexico to the United States. He was then canonized collectively in the year 2000 with a group of 26 other saints for reasons not related to immigration, including martyrdom and a miracle thought to be performed by the group as a whole. The ORCA Grant enabled me to conduct surveys and interviews in Mexico (primarily at the shrine of Santo Toribio in Santa Ana de Guadalupe, Jalisco) and conduct an analysis of religious wares on both sides of the border. Through this study, a pattern of Santo Toribio's cult disbursement was established and some reported myths concerning his devotion were debunked.

House of Horrors: Brideshead Revisited at the Movies

by Kathleen E. Urda

Published in Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film, ed. Regina Hansen (McFarland 2011).

Faith in the Familiar

by Kim Knibbe

original of the PhD-thesis defended in 2007

The Role of Religious Certainty and Uncertainty in Moral Orientation in a Catholic Province in the Netherlands

by Kim Knibbe

in Social Compass 2008

In the post-secularization debates about the role of religion in contemporary European societies, social scientists... more In the post-secularization debates about the role of religion in contemporary European societies, social scientists and philosophers often build on (speculative) sociological theories as to whether the conditions of life in (high) modernity produce existential insecurities that give rise to a need for a particular kind of religiosity. This religiosity is seen as rooted in the only things that still seem to provide some basis for certainty: experience and the self. In this article the author argues that a focus on processes of signification reveals that both religious certainty and religious uncertainty can be a strong source for moral orientation in contemporary Limburg (in the Netherlands), but does not necessarily lead to a stronger emphasis on experience and the self. Fundamental to this argument is Jackson's insight into practices of signification as a ceaseless negotiation of the boundary between two domains: the domain considered to be susceptible to human control, and the domain outside human control.

Take a Rosary to the Movies: Lessons for Catholic Girls

by Louise Krasniewicz

This is an artist's book created in the 1980s to explain the kinds of stories told to us as we were growing up with a... more This is an artist's book created in the 1980s to explain the kinds of stories told to us as we were growing up with a Catholic school education. Published with a grant from the Women's Studio Workshop.

Growing Up Catholic and American: The Oral Tradition of Catholic School Students

by Louise Krasniewicz

New York Folklore, Vol. XII, Nos. 3-4, 1986

Stories about growing up in Catholic Schools in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s are analyzed. Stories about growing up in Catholic Schools in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s are analyzed.

The “James Flanelly Chalice”, a Seventeenth Century chalice from the Diocese of Killala

by Robert M Chapple

Cathair na Mart: Journal of the Westport Historical Society 20 (2000), 6-13

Coordinates of Power and Performance: Festivals as Sites of (Re)Presentation and Reclamation in Sardinia

by Sabina Magliocco

Published in _Ethnologies_ 23/1 (2001)

The politics of festivals as loci of representation in Sardinia, including the reclamation of previously abandoned... more The politics of festivals as loci of representation in Sardinia, including the reclamation of previously abandoned festivals to serve new needs in a globalizing economy.

Witchcraft, Healing and Vernacular Magic in Italy

by Sabina Magliocco

Another of my most-requested pieces, this article gives a synthesis of the Italian ethnographic record of popular... more Another of my most-requested pieces, this article gives a synthesis of the Italian ethnographic record of popular magic, healing and witchcraft in the 20th century. 

"Vampires and Alternative Religions"

by Angela Aleiss

Paper, co-authored with J. Gordon Melton, presented at annual CESNUR meeting in Torino, Italy, September 2010.  Discusses the evolvement of vampires as secular subjects into representations of contemporary religions.

Click on link and scroll to bottom of the conference's cyberproceedings list.

Bridging Sacred Canopies: Mi'kmaq Spirituality and Catholicism.

by Robert Campbell

Canadian Journal of Native Studies (1998) 18: 301-311.

"Toutes les générations me diront bienheureuse" (Lc 1, 48). La piété mariale dans la vie de l'Eglise (Esprit & Vie n° 197, juillet 2008, 1-10)

by Hendro Munsterman