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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Catholic priests"”.
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Vocational Satisfaction Among Roman Catholic Priests
… to leave that environment. A sample of Roman Catholic priests rated the concepts, self, ideal-self and the Church on an adapted semantic differential scale. Difference scores were cal-culated for each subject for three concept pairs: self-ideal-self, self-church, and ideal-self-church. In …
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Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21
… Claudy bombings just over a century later, the Catholic church's relationship with Irish republicanism has been fraught with contradictions. The present thesis has examined this relationship for a time when republicans fought a guerrilla war against the British forces. It has looked at the …
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Polish Catholic Priests in Canada and Ireland: Migration, Leadership, and the Mobility of Strangers
… I draw on 30 in-depth interviews with Polish Catholic priests in Canada and Ireland, ethnographic research, and content analysis of Catholic Church documents in order to investigate the experiences and narratives of clerics in terms of their own personal migrations and the role they took on in …
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Towards a framework of creating coping strategies for newly ordained Roman Catholic priests engaged with major transitions in their lives
… This thesis will explore how newly ordained priests cope with these transitions to assist with creating a new framework for coping strategies for priests engaged with this major transition. When he is ordained, the new priest leaves the seminary which has been his home for the previous six or …
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The understanding and acceptance of children’s rights amongst those in formation (or recently ordained) to become Catholic priests in Ireland: an exploratory study
… of children’s rights of those training to be Catholic priests.<br/><br/>Given the concurrent focus on the individual seminarian or ordained priest and the influence of the wider contexts in which they are situated, two theoretical frameworks have been chosen to reflect this dual nature of the …
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Modes of ministry : a comparison between Anglican and Roman Catholic priests' perceptions of the priesthood and approaches to their role in the contemporary South African context
… respects with the catechisms of both the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Churches, the following aims were formulated for the present study: (1) to explore and compare the perceptions of representative samples of Anglican and Roman Catholic priests in respect of (a) the meaning of priesthood and …
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Communities for liberation.
Gustavo Guetierrez and other Latin American catholic priests believe that there exists a great division between the rich and the poor, one that is especially painful in the context of Christianity. These priests express their views in their theology--liberation theology. The influence of this …
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… religious identity led him to form "American Catholicism" through his experience in various political, religious, and political movements he participated in between 1837-1858. As the son of German immigrants, he grew up in New York City as a member of the working-class. He later participated …
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Some Aspects of the Editorial Policy of L'Avenir from 16 October 1830 to 15 November 1831
… the July Revolution in France, a group of French Catholic priests and laymen began to publish /’Avenir, a daily newspaper with the motto “Dieu et la Liberté”, and with the avowed objective of uniting what were seen as the diametrically opposed principles of liberalism and Catholicism. Taking its …
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Human capital, institutions, and incentives : micro and macro perspectives
… I exploit the interaction of the number of Catholic priests and the institution of the voucher system as a potentially exogenous determinant of voucher school entry. Using this instrument, I confirm the main predictions of my theoretical model. In the second essay, I show that cross-country …
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"Freedom of Speech and Religion?": Psychological Intelligence that Overthrew a Guatemalan Government, 1952-1954
… warfare campaign was used two ways: first by Catholic priests in Sunday homilies and second by a clandestine radio station (codenamed SHERWOOD). Together these forms of propaganda helped sway an ambivalent public (sixty percent of the Guatemalan population was indifferent toward its leader …
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Analyse thematique de quelques contes Nkundo-Mongo
… Republic of Congo (DRC), the NKUNDO-MONGO tribe. Catholic priests have collected these tales during and after the colonization period. We have used the transcription of the Reverend Hulstaert. In this society, folktales have a major impact as they express some important rules of the tribe and help …
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Saint Mary's Mission (Mission City, British Columbia) 1861 to 1900
… of Mary Immaculate, a French order of Roman Catholic priests, and the Sto:lo of the Fraser Valley. It considers the effects of the strict and inflexible Oblate system on the Sto:lo. Primary sources for this study were found at the Oblate Archives, the Archives of the Sisters of St. Ann, and …
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Going green : sustainable mining, water, and the remaking of social protest in post-neoliberal Ecuador
… each other and with national indigenous leaders, Catholic priests, artists, and urban ecologists. Together they have formed a movement in defense of life. My analysis extends common understandings of the nature of human agency and political life by examining the role that non-human entities play …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… Mutima Church have diverged from those of the Catholic Church. Mutima Church members living in Kasama district constituted the target population of the study. The sample size was forty. The study was qualitative in nature and used interviews as the main method of data collection. The interview …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
… Mutima Church have diverged from those of the Catholic Church. Mutima Church members living in Kasama district constituted the target population of the study. The sample size was forty. The study was qualitative in nature and used interviews as the main method of data collection. The interview …
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Fertility differentials among the Karen, a hill tribe minority in Northern Thailand
… leaders, for instance health personnel and Catholic priests, are found in some cases to encourage and in others to discourage contraceptive use. These two factors in combination with providing information through radio broadcasting clearly have policy implications for increasing …
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Fertility differentials among the Karen, a hill tribe minority in Northern Thailand
… leaders, for instance health personnel and Catholic priests, are found in some cases to encourage and in others to discourage contraceptive use. These two factors in combination with providing information through radio broadcasting clearly have policy implications for increasing …
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L'impossible gai? : être prêtre catholique et homosexuel au Québec
… Inscrite dans les champs de la sociologie du catholicisme et des sexualités, cette recherche repose sur des entretiens qualitatifs menés avec 17 prêtres, anciens prêtres et séminaristes. L’objectif central de cette recherche est d’analyser comment, dans le contexte du Québec contemporain, des …