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The Tying Of The Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis Of “Ritual” And “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics In India, Sonja Thomas

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article presents a feminist analysis of patriarchy persisting in Catholicism of the Syro-Malabar rite in Kerala. The article specifically considers the impact of charismatic Catholicism on women of the Syro-Malabar rite and argues that it is important to interrogate this new face of religiosity in order to fully understand how certain rituals are allowed to change and be fluid, while others, especially concerning female sexuality, are enshrined as “tradition” which often restricts the parameters for women’s empowerment and may reinforce caste and patriarchal hegemonies preventing feminist solidarity across different religious- and caste-based groups.

Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article examines three Catholic home shrines in a Dalit community in North Indian and argues that it is misleading to think that home shrines and other collections of material objects are somehow static conveyors of meaning. “Meaning” can mean many things or nothing at all, depending upon the terms we are using and the scholarly methods we deploy. The crucial aspect of Dalit Catholic home shrines is that they are literally open to interpretation and reinterpretation, to touching and being touched. Their significance—their meaning—depends not on decoding their structure or symbolic logic, but interacting with them as part of …

The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico

Journal of Global Catholicism

This essay discusses the challenges faced by Indian Catholicism, particularly as it seeks to adapt to and in contemporary, post-colonial India through the process or program of what is called inculturation, a self-conscious program of adaptation to Indian religion and culture. Since Indian Catholicism is constituted by so many irreducible persons-in-relation, the article focuses on the life of the Catholic priest, Swami Ishwar Prasad in whose life we may chart something of the inculturation movement and the Catholic tradition as it is found in North India region, in one rather long and rich lifetime connecting two centuries. The article seeks …

In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article considers whether Indian Christianity can be said to have a distinctive ecological vision. The first two parts of the article examine Christian environmentalism in two native forms of Indian Christianity: Tamil Christianity and Tribal Christianity. Continuing with the theme of conformity to the local culture—though of the elite—the third part of the article investigates how Christian Ashrams function as dynamic centers for ecological praxis. The last part of the article considers how contemporary Indian Christian communities can respond to the ecological challenges confronting them.

Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article combines ethnographic description of the practices of Hindu and Christian visitors of the St. Antony Shrine in Chennai with the observation that this material cannot be understood using the standard world religions paradigm that essentializes Christianity as exclusivistic. Drawing upon the visual and material culture of the shrine in light of premodern and Vatican II templates for inculturation and the negotiation of religious difference, the article highlights overlap between Tamil Hinduism and the Tamil Popular Catholicism of the site to argue that the beliefs and practices documented should inform descriptive and normative accounts of Catholic Christianity. Because Tamil …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, September 18, 2016

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

The Faithful Flyer, 09-18-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Faithful Flyer, 09-11-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, September 11, 2016

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, September 11, 2016

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Saint Francis Brogia Deaf Center Church Bulletin Finding Aid

Deposition Of Fr. John Feit, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 4, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 3, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 5, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 1, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 2, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Deposition Of Fr. John Feit 2016: Exhibit 6, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Deposition Materials related to Fr. John Feit

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Church And State; Toleration; Ethics Of Advocacy; Right To Work Laws; Aid To Education; The American Tradition; Censorship; Catholic Law Schools; The Eichmann Trial

The Catholic Lawyer

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The "Higher Law" Doctrine In Bracton And St. Thomas, Charles M. Whelan, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

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Civil Liberties And The State, Hon. Richard J. Hughes

The Catholic Lawyer

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