Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Early Conceptual Sketches of Throne], untitled. Brown ink sketches on tracing paper, 12 x 18 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Early Conceptual Sketch of Throne], untitled. Brown ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 19 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper with yellow marker coloring, 12 x 18 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Conceptual Sketches of Throne], untitled. Black and blue ink sketches on tracing paper with yellow marker coloring, 18 x 29 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Papal Altar and Furniture, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, 1987

[Schematic Design Drawing of Throne Elevation and Section], untitled. Pencil and purple pencil drawing on vellum, 21x24 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Fountains of papal Rome,

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"Richard II" in the Honour Court of the Papal Palace: Forgetting Shakespeare in order to find him?

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Power and Authority. Birgitta of Sweden and her Revelations

In the High Middle Ages female saints were customarily noble virgins. Thus, as a wife and a mother of eight children, the Swedish noble lady Birgitta (1302/3 1373) was an atypical candidate for sanctity. However, in 1391 she was canonized only 18 years after her death and became a role model for many late medieval women, who were mothers and widows. The dissertation Power and Authority Birgitta of Sweden and Her Revelations investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her power and authority during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340 1349. It is written from the perspectives of gender, authority, and power. The sources consist of approximately seven hundred revelations, hagiographical texts and other medieval documents. This work concentrates on the interaction between Birgitta and her audience. During her lifetime Birgitta was already regarded as a holy woman, as a living saint. A living saint could be given no formal papal or other recognition, for one could never be certain about his or her future activities. Thus, the living saint needed an audience for whom to perform signs of sanctity. In this study particular attention is paid to situations within which the power relations between the living saint and her audience can be traced and are open to critical analysis. Situations of conflict that arose in Birgitta s life are especially fruitful for this purpose. During the Middle Ages, institutional power and authority were exclusively in the hands of secular male leaders and churchmen. In this work it is argued, however, that Birgitta used different kinds of power than men. It is evident that she exercized influence on lay people as well as on secular and clerical authorities. The second, third, and fourth chapter of this study examine the beginning of Birgitta s career as a visionary, what factors and influences lay behind it, and what kind of roles they played in establishing her religious authority. The fifth, sixth, and seventh chapter concentrate on Birgitta s exercising of power in specific situations during her time in Sweden until she left on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1349. The central question is how she exercised power with different people. As a result, this book will offer a narrative of Birgitta s social interactions in Sweden seen from the perspectives of power and authority. Along with the concept of power, authority is a key issue. By definition, one who has power also has authority but a person who does not have official power can, nevertheless, have authority. Authority in action is defined here as meaning that a person was listened to. Birgitta acted both in situations of open conflict and where no conflict was evident. Her strategies included, for example, inducement, encouragement and flattery. In order to make people do as she felt was right she also threatened them openly with divine wrath. Sometimes she even used both positive persuasion and threats. Birgitta s power seems very similar to that of priests and ascetics. Common to all of them was that their power demanded interaction with other people and audiences. Because Birgitta did not have power and authority ex officio she had to persuade people to believe in her powers. She did this because she was convinced of her mission and sought to make people change their lives. In so doing, she moved from the domestic field to the public fields of religion and politics.

La ley nueva y la nueva evangelización : la tradición tomista y la perspectiva moral de Evangelii gaudium

Resumen: Las indicaciones pastorales del Papa Francisco en Evangelii gaudium ofrecen la oportunidad para redescubrir el valor de la categoría ley bajo la guía de la tradición tomista recogida en el documento pontificio. La propuesta moral del Evangelio o ley nueva, siguiendo la sinonimia utilizada por santo Tomás de Aquino, no puede ser reducida a un precepto o una serie de normas; muy por el contrario, revisitando la doctrina del Doctor Común podemos descubrir la necesidad de una hermenéutica sapiencial y profundamente bíblica de uno de los pilares de la moral cristiana. En el camino de la conversión pastoral, el retorno a las fuentes tomistas vuelve a iluminar la reflexión teológica con fecundidad renovada.

Informe de Economía e Instituciones

Resumen: El Informe de Economía e Instituciones cuenta con tres columnas que abordan cuestiones teóricas y de política económica relacionadas con la temática de la economía y las instituciones. En la primer columna, El Principio de Gratuidad y el Orden Institucional, el autor analiza la postura de la reciente encíclica Caritas in veritate con respecto a la relación entre economía y la solidaridad. La reflexión se basa en la necesidad de dar cabida a la gratuidad como dimensión indispensable del auténtico desarrollo humano y social. Al respecto, el autor se pregunta: “¿Se trata, simplemente, de una versión aggiornada del consejo evangélico de la caridad que debe inspirar la vida de cada cristiano, enunciado en esta ocasión en clave social, o encierra más bien un nuevo criterio rector de la dinámica económica, que necesita el acompañamiento de un diseño institucional acorde?”. La columna ofrece elementos de respuesta y una consideración acerca de la posible instrumentación institucional de estos lineamientos. En la segunda columna, Aspectos Institucionales de la Nueva Encíclica Social, el autor expone los puntos de contacto entre la reciente encíclica papal Caritas in Veritate con el ámbito de la Economía y las Instituciones. Resalta, al igual que la encíclica, la importancia del principio de subsariedad en términos de organización de las instituciones internacionales como base fundamental para evitar los abusos de la política observados en la actual crisis financiera. Asimismo, la columna recorre puntos de la encíclica que se orientan a responder a la necesidad de confianza que necesitan tanto los mercados como otros arreglos institucionales para resultar efectivos en el ámbito económico. En la tercera columna, La Crisis Financiera y la Confianza, el autor expone la dificultad del análisis de las causas de la crisis internacional actual. Para ello, hace uso de teoría de los juegos donde propone ciertas analogías entre algunos juegos y la realidad. El autor exhibe la importancia de la confianza para la cooperación, tanto en dichos juegos, como en circunstancias reales. También, focaliza su trabajo a la relación de dicha confianza al crecimiento económico y concluye que para lograr la recuperación del sendero de crecimiento deberá en primer lugar lograrse la recuperación de la confianza.

Entre o trono e o altar: sujeitos, instituições e saberes escolares na capital do império brasileiro (1860 a 1880)

A proposta deste estudo implicou explorar a hipótese de que eram múltiplas as forças que compunham o cenário de constituição das tradições escolares no século XIX e que a Igreja Católica figurava como uma delas. Nesta pesquisa buscou-se investigar sua presença no processo de escolarização Oitocentista, bem como as relações estabelecidas com o Estado Imperial. Reconhecendo a presença da instituição católica neste cenário, a proposta tencionou evidenciar aspectos das relações que a mesma procurou estabelecer com o poder público nos termos da gestão política e cultural. Entender a complexidade e historicidade desta força, a Igreja Católica, tornou-se primordial para refletir acerca de sua inscrição nos assuntos da educação, a partir de experiências relacionadas às escolas públicas e privadas no Oitocentos. Pretendeu igualmente, esquadrinhar experiências diversificadas de alguns sujeitos em relação ao projeto de instruir sob o signo católico, inquirir aspetos gerais do funcionamento de instituições criadas, mantidas, amparadas, autorizadas a fazer funcionar a engrenagem do ensino em nome do Estado Imperial e da Igreja Católica. Da mesma forma, tencionou interrogar a composição dos saberes nos planos de estudos dos estabelecimentos de ensino público e privado, observando nos termos da lei, a presença da doutrina cristã. Este conjunto de interesses será trabalhado a partir da proposição de quatro capítulos. Para tanto, trabalhou-se com uma massa documental composta por leis, reformas, ofícios, relatórios, artigos de jornais, propagandas, bulas papais, datados entre as décadas de 1860 e 1880

No Vale dos Lírios: Convento de Santa Mônica de Goa e o modelo feminino de virtude para o Oriente (1606-1636)

No ano de 1606 era fundado na cidade Goa o primeiro mosteiro feminino no Impérioportuguês do Oriente. O Convento de Santa Mônica de Goa foi instituído pelo então arcebispode Goa e governador da Índia, D. Frei Aleixo de Menezes sob a proteção da Ordem de SantoAgostinho. Criado com o intuito de proteger a honra das mulheres no Estado da Índia e de seruma alternativa de vida para as filhas da nobreza e fidalguia local que não conseguiam casar,o convento foi a principal fundação feminina de frei Aleixo, por ser território perfeito para ocultivo de modelos de santidade e virtudes. Juntamente com os recolhimentos de NossaSenhora da Serra e de Santa Maria Madalena, o convento formava uma tríade de instituiçõescaracterizadas pela assistência e pela caridade à mulher - grande incentivo do Concílio deTrento e da Reforma católica. A presente dissertação procura discutir como os discursos dosfreis agostinianos de exaltação das virtudes e perfeição religiosa das mônicas refletiram noprocesso de fundação e reconhecimento régio e papal do convento.

A European Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Antic-Catholicism and Anti-Bolshevism between Moscow, Berlin, and the Vatican 1922 to 1933

The term “culture war” has become a generic expression for secular-catholic conflicts across nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, if measured by acts of violence, anticlericalism peaked in the years between 1927 and 1939, when thousands of Catholic priests and believers were imprisoned or executed and hundreds of churches razed in Mexico, Spain and Russia. This essay argues that not only in these three countries, but indeed across Europe a culture war raged in the interwar period. It takes, as a case study, the interaction of communist and Catholic actors located in the Vatican, the Soviet Union, and Germany in the period between the beginning of the Pontificate of Pius XI in 1922 and Hitler’s appointment as chancellor of Germany in 1933. Using correspondence and reports from the Vatican archives, this essay shows how Papal officials and communist leaders each sought to mobilize the German populace to achieve their own diplomatic ends. German Catholics and communists gladly responded to the call to arms that sounded from Rome and Moscow in 1930, but they did so also to further their own domestic goals. The case study shows how national contexts inflected the transnational dynamics of radical anti-Catholicism in interwar Europe. In the end, agitation against “godlessness” did not lead to the return of a “Christian State” desired by many conservative Christians. Instead, the culture war further destabilized the republic and added a religious dimension to a landscape well suited to National Socialist efforts to reach a Christian population otherwise mistrustful of its völkisch and anticlerical elements.

L'oeuvre latine attribuée à Jacotin dans les sources des XVe et XVIe siècles : transcription critique et analyse

La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).

Análisis de los desafíos de la diplomacia pontificia en el papado de Juan Pablo II (1995-2005)

Con la llegada de Juan Pablo II al Papado simultáneamente se configuró un nuevo orden mundial y aparecieron fenómenos políticos, sociales y económicos que generaron factores de desestabilización dentro de los Estados, planteándole nuevos objetivos a su diplomacia pontificia y asumir nuevos desafíos como el diálogo diplomático y la mediación en el marco de una diplomacia de reputación para la honestidad, a fin de optimizar su capacidad de resolución de conflictos y emplear la diplomacia satisfactoriamente, lo que a su vez permitió una acción papal más directa en los asuntos mundiales.