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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Catholic faith"”.
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Shepherding the Lost: How Catholic YouTube Influencers use Eudaimonic Messages to Reach Out to Catholic Young Adults
Millennials are leaving the Catholic Church in great numbers, despite being raised in the faith. When asked for the reason of disaffiliation, young adults do not blame sexual abuse scandals in the Church nor do they cite specific Catholic beliefs and teachings. Instead, they say that they have …
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"""A sturdy native plant"": The American Catholic education system, the American Catholic philosophy of education, and American Catholic identity, 1919-1972"
For much of its existence, the American Catholic Church labored against native Protestant beliefs that its Roman connections hampered Catholic assimilation into American life. Millions of ethnic Catholics lived in a culture dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants who expected conformity to …
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Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… history of the life of Natchez, Mississippi Catholic activist Marjorie R. Baroni (1924-1986). The study examines Baroni's Catholic faith-driven activism as a counter-narrative to the dominant Protestant narratives of religious motivations in the greater civil rights movement. In analyzing …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… called for the inculturation of the Roman Catholic faith - an attempt to have the faith made more accessible within the context of culture and society. This has led to changes in monastic life for the individual monk and his cloistered community. This thesis explores the repercussions of …
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The crisis of conscience in Vicente Lenero's protagonists
… problem that involves an interpretation of the Catholic faith. A single novel or play is dealt with in each chapter. In the analysis of the works we examine the nature of the moral dilemmas encounted. We hope to show that each work bears a message important to Lenero. It seems that his purpose …
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The changing nature of the Catholic school community
The role of the Catholic school, as outlined by Catholic leaders within dioceses around Australia and supported by Vatican documents, is to assist in the Church's role of proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ. Catholic schools aim to promote Gospel values within the daily life of their community. …
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De La Salle Christian Brothers' Experiences of Catholic Identity in Higher Education in the United States
<p>Catholic identity is considered to be the single most important issue facing Catholic higher education in the United States. Scholars (Burtchaell, 1998; Gallin, 1999; Gleason, 1995; Heft, 2003; Marsden, 1994; O'Brien, 1994) have suggested that sustaining Catholic identity and preventing …
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The Development of Sigrid Undset's Technique
… life of an age, long past, but impregnated with Catholic faith. Under her competent hands, this life glows before the readers in unforgettable stories, for she is one of the most erudite authorities in the field of Scandinavian antiquity.
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… attitudes towards classical mythology within a Catholic society. xxiv The iconography in printed editions of Metamorphoses developed and shifted in line with the Venetian Republic’s main religious and political concerns, primarily the surge in Catholicism’s political and religious power. After …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… attitudes towards classical mythology within a Catholic society. xxiv The iconography in printed editions of Metamorphoses developed and shifted in line with the Venetian Republic’s main religious and political concerns, primarily the surge in Catholicism’s political and religious power. After …
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“But how could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?” An ESL/ESP class for Catholic immigrants
<p>The U.S. Catholic population has a larger proportion of immigrants than the U.S. population at large. The majority of Catholic immigrants come from Latin America and are not native speakers of English. In this qualitative study, I interviewed nine Catholic immigrants from Latin America to better …
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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith, 1960-1963
… a grueling vetting process by virtue of his Catholic faith. Conventional narratives depict Kennedy’s ultimate victory as a turning point that announced a new era, free of religious prejudice, and marked the beginning of the “secular sixties.” In fact, religious concerns, including old …
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The Council of the Indies and Religion in the Spanish New World
… codified its laws regarding the spread of the Catholic faith, which became the basis for Council control of religion under the authority of the king. A review of the Council during this time led to many changes in an effort to make the Council less corrupt and more efficient. These changes were …
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The Lived Experiences of Undergraduate Students at Catholic Universities with Catholic Mission and Identity
… study explored the lived experiences of Catholic and non-Catholic undergraduate students at Catholic universities in the northeast United States, focusing on how Catholic mission and identity are expressed through student life and campus ministry programming. The study aimed to describe …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… focusing upon their explorations of Roman Catholic spirituality, as reflected in their poetry, prose, and personal writings. Despite the anti-Romanism prevalent in nineteenth-century American political and religious culture, these authors engaged deeply with Catholic sacramentality, …
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LEAVING NORMAL
… imagination. The third section reflects my Catholic faith. It includes a collection about the life of a ninety year old nun and three elegies for friends who died this year. The fourth and final section is representative of the intrinsic love I feel for the heart-stopping beauty of the Upper …
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Julia Kavanagh In Her Times: Novelist And Biographer, 1824-1877.
… single women, and reflect the author's strong Catholic faith; Nathalie (1850) and Adèle (1858) on the other hand, demonstrate the impact and influence of Brontë's Jane Eyre on Kavanagh's output. The study seeks to identify the influence on Kavanagh's work of her French upbringing, and …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… (post-1945) fiction written by American Catholics, and that these authors employ violence as an aesthetic strategy that is best, and perhaps only, understood when approached through the philosophical and imaginative discourses of their Catholic faith. While the violence in contemporary …
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Using the Internet for religion: a study of the possible use of the Internet for religious purposes among the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Mumbai, India
… was aimed at testing whether this was true of Catholic users of the Internet from the Archdiocese of Mumbai, India. In order to verify the religious use of the Internet, focus groups were conducted among various sectors of Catholic users to explore whether differences in age, sex and religious …
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