Abstract The scope of Early Modern Demonology is universal, for the perceived threat devil omnipresent, stretching through time and space. This article examines various utilizations description central south American indigenous peoples in demonological discourse. By means three closely related examples, I will demonstrate discursive conflation deviant behavior Europe America comparisons transfe...

orty million immigrants (foreign-born) reside in the United States, including more than 21 million from Latin America and 11 million from Asia.1 Hispanics represent 35 percent of U.S. Catholics and accounted for 40 percent of newly registered parishioners from 2005 to 2010.2 As these numbers indicate, the vitality and success of the nation and the Catholic Church increasingly will turn on the c...

The article is devoted to the menologion (calendar of saints) compiled in 20th century for Russian Byzantine Catholics. latter are a church community with its own Byzantine-Slavic worship and piety, which follow both Catholic Eastern spiritual traditions. Like entire liturgical literature Catholics, was created Rome under auspices Congregation Churches, as part activities Apostolate, i.e., miss...

The Catholic Church's Bicentennial Program to combat social injustice "must involve the full community of the Church if it is to succeed," John Cardinal Dearden said last night. The Archbishop of Detroit outlined a two part social action program of the Catholic bishops of America in his address to the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry <CCUM) conference. ''Basically, our plan for the American...

Teaching ethics in public schools in the United States has been made almost impossible because of the Culture War and Modern Economics. When Catholics began to migrate to the United States in the early nineteenth century, they found that Protestant religion and ethics were taught in public schools and they created their own parochial schools. This controversy has continued for two hundred years...

From a liberationist, feminist, and Catholic point of view, this article attempts to understand the decision of abortion. People are constantly testing their principles and values against the question of abortion. Advances in technology, the rise of communitarianism and the rejection of individualism, and the commodification of children are factors in the way in which the abortion debate is bei...