... experience) acts of abuse. Other interpretations of sex abuse grant this claim but characterize it as a distortion or perversion of some ostensibly authentic Catholicism. Church leaders and many Catholics certainly have a vested interest in making this argument. But as Robert Orsi and other...

... this period. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Catholic church routinely intervened in familial disputes between parents and their children over young people's choices of marriage partners, and in ninety-two percent of the cases sided with the children. The early eighteenth...

.... He differed with the Catholic Church as he matured, resisting dogma that denied the inquisitive, condemned the doubter. In this moral stance are answers to those who wonder why he didn’t espouse so-called radical, or New Left doctrines. Insofar as he was so respectful of education and its...

.... He differed with the Catholic Church as he matured, resisting dogma that denied the inquisitive, condemned the doubter. In this moral stance are answers to those who wonder why he didn’t espouse so-called radical, or New Left doctrines. Insofar as he was so respectful of education and its...

... over 200,000 lives and displaced over a million people. Throughout the war, Maya suffered more than 90 percent of the casualties. Both the United Nations and Guatemalan Catholic Church’s human rights reports identified genocide against Maya in the early 1980s.1 Perhaps in some ways, this more...

..., kept close contact with them, often traveled back and forth, sent remittances, and maintained Irish cultural habits while in Britain, including strong ties to the Catholic Church. Emigration, Redmond argues, was “not a rejection by women of traditional family but rather the embracing of opportunities...

... Calero. At that point the San Francisco Archdiocese decided to search its records and dis- covered that Thomas Dowling was not, in fact, a priest Dowling then informed a local television station that he had actually been or- dained by "the old Roman Catholic Church,"which (accordingto the New...

... nearly $1.3 billion combined in worldwide ticket sales (excluding DVDs); and it even inspired diets, such as The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and The Golden Ratio.6 A long line of detractors followed the Catholic Church in denouncing the novel, pushing it from book...

... Scholarship on the 1970s emphasizes the latter focus of Christians’ engagement in political struggles. Works 82 Radical History Review by John De Gruchy, Peter Walshe, David Thomas, and others have demonstrated how Christian institutions — whether the Catholic Church, the Christian Institute...

... in terms of a pre- dominantly Gaelic and Catholic cultural ethos.”13 In particular, the Catholic Church sought control of socialization processes by “establishing a firm grip on education as well as by the doctrine of familism.”14 This meant enforcing a moral control over women, which encompassed...

... region to Roman Catholicism. During this period of Counter Reformation, the Habsburg-sponsored Jesuits pro- moted the Cult of the Virgin Mary to attract converts and built Marian Columns and baroque churches throughout the Habsburg lands. According to Czech...

... are a matter of “civil rights and justice for all.”49 Camacho | The Same-Sex Erotics of the US Empire  151 Unlike the Catholic and Mormon churches in Hawai‘i that refute same-­sex rights and gay marriage, several churches of Christian denominations have adopted both...

..., and offshoot denominations, such as George Stallings’s African-American Catholic Church.12 Enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities has grown many times over in the 1990s, and the best of them are able to attract some of the best African-American students in the country. It is within...

..., religious community, and their impact on the direction of the Catholic Church in America has yet to be assessed. Morgan argues that militants became “fixated with doing ’whatever is necessary’ to stop the war” thus moving ”further and further away from the objective of building a radical...

... based their convictions on the Encyclical Rerum Novarum .” 8 This article traces how Irish social Catholics discussed and used the concept of the living wage, which eventually found its way into the ILO’s constitution. Social Catholicism exerted a profound influence over the political culture...

... services in Catholic Ireland “disgracefully inadequate when compared with those in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”49 The church fiercely resisted state intervention in social and economic life, considering the social welfare of the people part of its own purview. Deeming state assistance...

... presidency of Elie Lescot (1941–46). Another then observed that “par- adoxically, you also had under Lescot the kanpay rejete,” the Roman Catholic Church’s violent crusade against “superstition,” which the state backed in 1941–42 with military force.1...

..., Brazil; Linda Lewin, ”The ”Integralism and the Brazilian TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY/159 Catholic Church," HAHR 54, 3 Intervention: The U.S. Role in the 1964 (1974), 431-52 Milita ry Coup. 11 Februarv 5 March...

... of back- wardness. But the association of the popular Vodou with sorcery — two antithetical ideas in the minds of Vodouizans — in the language of the law presented immense problems of enforcement. This was clear in the 1860s, following the signing of a con- cordat with the Catholic Church...

.... I was put in second grade. There was no real attempt to reach us, or to sensitize us, or sensitize themselves around our needs, none of that. We were just the “excludables.” In Chicago, we were excluded from the classrooms, we were excluded from the Catholic Church. When we went...