The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various domains of everyday life, including important religious rituals. In the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, reception Holy Communion was substantially altered. suggestion Polish Episcopal Conference and diocesan bishops to receive on hand during pandemic, while receiving tongue had been default form before pandemic. present studies investigated whether al...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the interaction between socio-economic status and 'protected characteristics' in Scotland. This study aimed to examine whether differences in mortality were moderated by interactions with social class or deprivation. The practical value was to pinpoint population groups for priority action on health inequality reduction and health improvement rather than a sole ...

Forthcoming, Harvard University Press Chapter 2 The Catholic Puzzle: Parishes and Civic Life By Mary Jo Bane The National Conference of Catholic Bishops issues a statement opposing stem cell research. Catholic parishes mobilized by the Industrial Area Foundations lobby for affordable housing. Lay Catholics occupy important leadership positions in local and national Right-to-Life committees. Cat...

T PROTESTANT theologian Otto Dibelius made a prophetic statement when, in the title of a well-known book, he referred to the 20th century as "the century of the Church." Although treatises on the Church had appeared sporadically since the 14th century, ecclesiology had not yet assumed the central position in Catholic theology that it has enjoyed in our own century. The foundation of Theological...

This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore these Catholic believers manage stay touch with their faith and community times crisis when physical real-life contact is very limited. In this article, draw on in-depth interviews conducted via Zoom, carried out framework my current ethnographi...

“Mohammedans are Mohammedans because they are born and reared among that sect, not because they have thought it out and can furnish sound reasons for being Mohammedans; we know why Catholics are Catholics; why Presbyterians are Presbyterians; why Baptists are Baptists; why Mormons are Mormons; why thieves are thieves; why monarchists are monarchists; why Republicans are Republicans and Democrat...

a {em roman dominating function} on a graph $g$ is a function$f:v(g)rightarrow {0,1,2}$ satisfying the condition that everyvertex $u$ for which $f(u) = 0$ is adjacent to at least one vertex$v$ for which $f(v) =2$. {color{blue}a {em restrained roman dominating}function} $f$ is a {color{blue} roman dominating function if the vertices with label 0 inducea subgraph with no isolated vertex.} the wei...

BACKGROUND There is some evidence that natural levels of lithium in drinking water may have a protective effect on suicide mortality. AIMS To evaluate the association between local lithium levels in drinking water and suicide mortality at district level in Austria. METHOD A nationwide sample of 6460 lithium measurements was examined for association with suicide rates per 100,000 population ...