Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, sometimes referred to as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2018. As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The church consists of almost 3,500 dioceses around the world. The pope, who is the Bishop of Rome (and whose titles also include Vicar of Jesus Christ and Successor of St. Peter), is the chief pastor of the church, entrusted with the universal Petrine ministry of unity and correction. The …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

Rae (Behchokò˛) hospital operated by the Catholic Church. She was a gifted seamstress who made moccasins


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

remained a Catholic until her death. The Catholic Church remains the only institution which did not


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …

or the not so “small context” that is the Catholic Church in Quebec. And finally, I need to explain Maria Chapdelaine and other works.34 The Catholic Church in Quebec casts a long shadow over the novels my work to account for the history of the Catholic Church in Quebec, and needless to say, I have no


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholic Church, has closed four hundred and fifty parishes


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

a portfolio of evidence to present to the Catholic Church in order to justify an exorcism. As these


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

seems.” Oddly enough, in 1985 at a Roman Catholic Church in central London, the priest asked me to


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

and unequal social hierarchies. When the Catholic Church unleashed the Inquisition on Galileo, power


Alberta Teachers' Association · 1 October 2024 English

Each teacher claiming teacher education, and each teacher commencing employment with the Foundation, shall submit to the Foundation proof of having applied to the TQS of the Association for a …

demonstrate support and respect for the Roman Catholic Church and to be in consort with the teachings of a lifestyle and deportment in harmony with Catholic Church practices and beliefs which include, among principles of the Gospel and teachings of the Catholic Church; e. acknowledges and agrees that either the principles of the Gospel and teachings of the Catholic Church; f. understands and is committed to the responsibility shall mean “a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church, or one of the Eastern Catholic Churches”.


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English

Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …

Nationality in Western Ukraine The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia Michael Power The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier Mark G. McGowan | lcsh: Church work with orphans—Canada—Catholic Church—History— 19th century. | lcsh: Church work Indigenous Residential Schools operated by the Catholic Church, at Kamloops, British Columbia, and Cow- asis pro- duced some startling results.3 While the Catholic Church played a significant role in the placements


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English

“Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation.” — JEANNE BEKER, author, …

Every Sunday, they attended St. Peter’s Catholic Church the next block over on Markham Street. The


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