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This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Based on the author’s research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book’s focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua...
The synodal Church we often hear is one seeking fraternal communion. This involves mutual listening, in which everyone has something to learn. The author of these enlightening commentaries is Fr. Diego Fares, an Argentinian Jesuit, who has known and worked with Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) for many years. The articles in this eBook: Evangelical Imbalances: Francis Writes to the People of God in Germany Pope Francis and his Messages to Latin America Pope Francis and Fraternity Poetry is a Planet of Living Trees: An interview with Ana Varela Tafu The Heart of ‘Querida Amazonia’: ‘overflowing en route’ Spiritual Discernment in ‘Christus Vivit’: Between Ulysses and Orpheus ‘I am a Mission’: Toward the Synod on Young People Young People, Faith and Discernment: The 2018 Synod and indications of an incomplete document
A collection of 12 articles from the May 2020 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. Amazon is a wonder of nature teeming with the mystery of creation. ‘Desborde’ or ‘overflowing’ appears repeatedly in Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia. Francis says that solutions for the regions many problems will be found in this overflow. The figure of the Crucified One is the most powerful sign of God’s revelation in the world. The ‘Weakness’ of Christ. An argument for His truth by José M. Millás shows how this moment of greatest weakness becomes the strongest argument for the truth of Christ and his mes...
This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.
A collection of 11 articles from the August 2020 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. Our August, 2020 issue includes articles by experienced commentators like Federico Lombardi, director general of Vatican Radio under St John Paul and Pope Benedict and then director of the Holy see Press office from 2006-2016. Fr. Federico discusses the life and times of the Society of Jesus since Vatican II There’s a short, engaging interview with Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese. Scorsese shares his thoughts on the anxiety of quarantine, the lockdown and its impact on our spirit and the future. ‘I Believe in the Holy Spirit’ is...
This eBook contains 12 essays from La Civilta Cattolica summarizing the key work of the pope both before and after his election in March 2013, his pastoral inspiration, his belief in the discernment, in the culture of encounter and reaching out to the peripheries of the Church. As a son of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis appreciates the value of reading the Gospel in the light of contemporary experience. His is a pontificate of discernment, the internal journey in search of God; and, encounter, the external journey looking beyond our needs to those of others. The Franciscan Pontificate is a selection of articles from La Civiltà Cattolica, English edition that will help you to better understand Pope Francis’ thinking. These stimulating essays look in-depth at some of the key work of the pope both before and after his election in March 2013, his pastoral inspiration, his belief in the discernment, in the culture of encounter and reaching out to the peripheries of the Church.
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Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and thought, updated and expanded throughout The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and cultural phenomena of Catholicism. Accessible chapters address central topics in the practice of Catholic theology and the development of doctrine, including God and Jesus Christ, creation and Church, the Virgin Mary, the sacraments, moral theology, eschatology, and more. Throughout the text, the authors illu...
When Pope Francis puts pen to paper, people around the world pay attention. Between 2017 and 2020, the Holy Father published six groundbreaking documents with topics ranging from the importance of scripture to Catholic social teaching, and from injustice in the Amazon to the role of religion in building world peace. These seven documents—letters, apostolic exhortations, an encyclical, and a statement cosigned by Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb—are gathered in one volume for the first time. Volume 2 includes: Gaudete et Exultate, March 19, 2018: In his apostolic exhortation Rejoice and Be Glad: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World, Pope Francis reissues the universal call to...
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