Fr. Morrisey is professor of canon law, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario. Aclear distinction is to be made between "Catholic works" and the "works of Catholics." The former are undertaken "in the name of the Church" (canon 116), with all the guarantees of the church behind them. On the other hand, works of Catholics are undertakings of Catholics that might have an ecclesial relationship o...

The increasing number of marriage annulments granted by the Catholic Church in recent years is gaining considerable public attention and arousing some controversy. I Members of the church's clergy2 and hierarchy3 have also expressed concern. This is not surprising in view of the actual data, as shown in Figure 1. Such data give the appearance of a decrease in the emphasis being placed on the pe...

Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined sepa...

Catholics have long been an important force in American electoral politics. Once a vital and loyal component of the New Deal Democratic coalition, Catholics in recent decades have shifted their political loyalties away from the Democratic Party to more of a partisan equilibrium. Indeed, by 2012, the White Catholic vote had become predominantly Republican, even in a year in which a Democrat was ...

This article examines the liturgical life of “Underground” Greek Catholic Church through example prominent priest, writer and poet, Roman Bakhtalovskyy, CSsR. After 1946, Soviet government in Ukraine prohibited activity this Church. Therefore, sacramental priests was performed complete secrecy until 1989. The analysis archival criminal cases is an important source research during difficult peri...

Religion frequently indicates membership of socio-ethnic groups with distinct health behaviours and mortality risk. Determining the extent to which interactions between groups contribute to variation in mortality is often challenging. We compared socio-economic status (SES) and mortality rates of Protestants and Catholics in Scotland and Northern Ireland, regions in which interactions between g...

Are Catholics more motivated by guilt than Protestants? I tested this hypothesis via self-determination theory's concept of introjected motivation, in which behavior is only partially internalized (Deci & Ryan, 1991). Study 1 found that 1409 Catholic undergraduates were higher in introjected motivation than 1261 Protestant undergraduates. Catholics were also lower in identified motivation, in w...

Attribution theory has long enjoyed a prominent role in social psychological research, yet religious influences on attribution have not been well studied. We theorized and tested the hypothesis that Protestants would endorse internal attributions to a greater extent than Catholics, because Protestantism focuses on the inward condition of the soul. In Study 1, Protestants made more internal, but...

In Otto-Preminger, the European Court of Human Rights (EctHR) upheld decision Innsbruck Provincial in Austria ordering forfeiture a film portraying Catholicism satirical form community where vast majority population were Roman Catholics because Austrian authorities had acted to ensure religious peace region as well prevent an unwarranted and offensive attack on their religion. The EctHR conside...

This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue child Jesus that object widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in Philippines. The central hypothesis continuing challenge Catholicism Philippines, at least from perspective institutional Church, lies not extra liturgical performance its rituals, but rather belief sacred objects possess agency and personhood. discussion th...