scholarly journals Medicine and Pharmacy in the works of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlaicu Sandor ◽  
Dinu I. Dumitrascu ◽  
Marius T. Bojita ◽  
Dan L. Dumitrascu
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Catholic Church

The 700th commemorative year of Dante’s death began on 25 March 2021, the day of the Annunciation of the Lord, of the creation of the world, the New Year’s Day in old Florence according to ab Incarnatione. On 25 March 2021, Holy Father Francis published the apostolic letter Candor Lucis Aeternae solemnly uniting the voice of the catholic church with the chorus of all the ones honoring the memory of the illustrious poet Dante Alighieri. In professional fraternity the voices of the guild colleagues join in, physicians and pharmacists, descendants of those in Arte dei Medici e degli Speziali, which proudly included among their members Dante Alighieri, at the crossing between the 13th and 14th centuries.     

Contemplating Compilations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pate ◽  
Brian Kumm
Keyword(s):  
Music Making ◽  
Van Manen ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Sound Objects ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Max Van Manen

Through this chapter the crafting of compilations is explored as an act, art, and expression of music making, illuminating the listeners’ and compilers’ positions as cocreators of meaning, function, and purpose. Music becomes repositioned and repurposed as found or sound objects that pass through Gaston Bachelard’s triptych of resonance, repercussion, and reverberations, a process of music speaking to so as to speak for individuals’ deeply personal and significantly meaningful experiences. The chapter addresses the question, “What motivates someone to partake in this personally meaningful, vulnerable, and artistic endeavor?” Using Josef Pieper’s conceptions of leisure as celebration, an orientation toward the wonderful, and an act of affirmation, the chapter concludes that the creation and crafting of compilations (e.g., mix tape) affords poetic spaces for connection, enchantment, felt-aliveness, or what Max van Manen called an “incantative, evocative speaking, a primal telling, [whose] aim [is] to involve the voice in an original singing of the world.”

scholarly journals Newman, Catholicity, and the Church Today: On the Development of Christian Principles through Dialogue with the World

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Christopher Cimorelli
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article explores the following question: Given the Roman Catholic Church’s present-day teaching on catholicity, how can St. John Henry Newman’s historically conscious, imaginative view of catholicity assist Catholic Christians today in understanding the concept faithfully, but in a manner ‘open’ to its potential development in an age of shifting metaphysics? After (1) an introduction to the topic and challenges to the notion of catholicity today, this article then (2) analyzes the present-day view of catholicity as a mark of the church according to the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’, noting areas of development as well as limitations. The article then (3) investigates Newman’s understanding of catholicity within his sacramental and imaginative worldview. Newman’s understanding of the development of principles and doctrines is particularly relevant for a consideration today of how the church’s view of catholicity might authentically develop from a dialogue between religion and science. The article then (4) synthesizes results in a concluding section that indicates how the fruits of the preceding analysis could be realized through eco-theological dialogue.

The Apostolic Vicariate of Western Siam and the Rise of Catholicism in Malaysia and Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Shanthini Pillai ◽  
Bernardo E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Territorial Jurisdiction ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article examines the emergence of the Catholic Church in Malaysia and Singapore in the modern period through an exploration of the Apostolic Vicariate of Western Siam (1841–1888). The establishment of this Catholic institution—a temporary territorial jurisdiction in missionary regions that precedes the creation of new dioceses—was key to advancing the transition of the Church from its older colonial model towards a modern national Church. Focusing on the work conducted by French missionaries of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (mep) over these five decades, we analyze the process of developing a local clergy and setting up the socio-cultural scaffolding of the contemporary Catholic Church in the Malay Peninsula. We pay special attention to howmepmissionaries skilfully navigated their missionary activities through encounters with Malay rulers and British colonial officers to secure the creation of a Catholic elite independent of the PortuguesePadroado. Our argument suggests that the apostolic vicariate and the dynamism of the Frenchmepmissionaries in colonial Malaya opened up the pathway for the rise of the ethnic Catholic elites in modern-day Malaysia and Singapore.

scholarly journals Abortion, embryos, euthanasia, and gender theory: an anthropological analysis of the Catholic Church’s Bioethics Manual at World Youth Day

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naara Luna
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Embryo Research ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Medically Assisted Reproduction ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Catholic Church

Abstract The present article analyzes the Keys to Bioethics - JMJ Rio 2013 handbook, produced by the Jerôme Lejeune Foundation and the National Commission for Family Pastoral Care, linked to the National Conference of Bishops in Brazil. This booklet was offered to people attending the World Youth Day that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. It is a student’s guide, created to educate young people about the doctrines of the Catholic Church. The text presents bioethical arguments against abortion in any situation, and defends the human rights of embryos and fetuses through topics such as: prenatal diagnosis, medically assisted reproduction, pre-implantation diagnosis, and embryo research (stem cells). The text also condemns euthanasia and repudiates ‘gender theory’ as false. In essence, it questions individual autonomy. The distribution of this booklet is an example of the activities of the Catholic Church in public spaces.

scholarly journals LOUIS MASSIGNON: A HOSPITALIDADE DIALOGAL

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (116) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Faustino Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Catholic Church

O diálogo inter-religioso apresenta-se hoje como um dos grandes desafios do século XXI, sendo caminho essencial para a afirmação de um horizonte de paz para a humanidade. Trata-se de uma das artes mais difíceis e arriscadas da conversação, mas essencial na construção de uma cidadania que respeite a alteridade. O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar a trajetória de um dos grandes interlocutores do diálogo entre cristianismo e islã, Louis Massignon (1883-1962), um pioneiro na abertura da igreja católica ao mundo muçulmano. Com sua perspectiva de vida e reflexão favoreceu um novo olhar sobre o islã, esse mundo religioso que envolve hoje cerca de uma em cada cinco pessoas do mundo.ABSTRACT: The Inter-religious dialogue is presented today as one of the great challenges of the 21st century, being an essential way for the affirmation of a horizon of peace for humanity. It is about one of the most difficult and risky arts of the conversation, but essential in the construction of a citizenship that respects the alteridade. The objective of this article is to present the trajectory of one of the great interlocutors of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam, Louis Massignon (1883-1962), a pioneer in the opening of the Catholic Church to the Muslim world. With its perspective of life and reflection it favored a new to look at on Islam, this religious world that today involves about one out of every five people of the world.

scholarly journals Una Historia De Larga Duración: La Navidad

Xihmai ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Barceló Quintal
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Birth Date ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Mediterranean Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Catholic Church

RESUMEN Actualmente, para la mayorí­a de los pueblos del planeta, los doce dí­as relacionados con la fiesta de Navidad representan el nacimiento de Jesús en Belén. Sus antecedentes se remontan a casi 4,000 años, cuando estas fiestas estaban relacionadas con la renovación de la naturaleza. Es hasta 345 años después de la muerte de Cristo, cuando el papa Julio I, fijó como fecha del natalicio de Cristo el 25 de diciembre. No sólo la Iglesia católica participó en la historia de esta festividad, en ella entran los pueblos mediterráneos de Europa, Asia y África; y más tarde las culturas americanas hicieron su parte para incorporar nuevos elementos a esta tradición. Abstract For the majority of Christian communities in the world, the twelve days related to the cele­bration of Christmas represent the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The antecedents of this story reach back almost 4,000 years when the celebrations were related to the rebirth of nature. Pope Julius I fixed the 25th of December as Christ’s birth date 345 years after His death. The Catholic Church is not the only participant in the history of the celebration; communities in Mediterranean Europe, Asia and Africa also participated. Later, American cultures have also contributed new elements to the tradition.

Spiritual imperialism and the mission of the Irish race: the Catholic Church and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (152) ◽  
pp. 600-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Roddy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The World ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Catholic Church

The idea of an ‘Irish empire’ has had enduring appeal. It was a rare source of pride promoted by politicians and churchmen during depressed periods in independent Ireland, particularly the 1950s, and the phrase provided an evocative title for at least one popular – and notably sanguine – version of the Irish diaspora's story as late as the turn of this century. In such contexts ‘Irish empire’ can appear simply a wry play on a far more commonly used and, if recent scholarship is to be taken into account, by no means unrelated term, ‘British empire’. Yet as many historians of the Irish abroad, the Irish Catholic Church, and Irish culture more generally have noted, the existence of a peculiarly Irish ‘spiritual empire’ was widely spoken of even as the island's ports were daily choked with emigrants. Nevertheless, the pervasiveness and persistence of the concept, invariably involving the perception of a special, God-given emigrants' ‘mission’ to spread the Catholic religion in whatever part of the world they settled, warrant a more searching analysis than historians in the above-mentioned categories have hitherto devoted to it.

Gustavo Juan Franceschi and the Jews: The Overcoming of Prejudice by an Argentine Prelate

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Allan Metz
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Creation ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Proper Context ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article seeks to demonstrate how Monsignor Gustavo Juan Franceschi (1871–1957) became a friend of the newly created state of Israel when only twenty years earlier he had maintained that Jews constituted Argentina's major political problem. This intellectual transformation will be traced through a consideration of Franceschi's writings about the Jews. As a prominent member of the Catholic church and a strong advocate of Argentine nationalism, his views also reflected the generally ambivalent and suspicious attitude which that powerful institution held regarding Jews. However, following the devastation of European Jewry during World War II and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Franceschi's opinion of Jews moderated, resulting in greater understanding. Before presenting Franceschi's views, a consideration of Argentine Catholic nationalism will be provided in order to place these opinions within a proper context.

Mary and Modernity

2019 ◽  
pp. 530-545
Author(s):  
Charlene Spretnak
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Mechanistic Worldview ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Catholic Church

Because the Reformation was unfavourably disposed toward expressions of the cosmological, mystical, symbolic, and aesthetic dimensions of the Virgin Mary’s spiritual presence, and because secular versions of several concepts in the Reformation became central to emergent modernity, the work of modernizing the Catholic Church at Vatican II resulted in streamlining Mary’s presence and meaning in favour of a more literal, objective, and strictly text-based version, which is simultaneously more Protestant and more modern. In the decades since Vatican II, however, the modern, mechanistic worldview has been dislodged by discoveries in physics and biology indicating that physical reality, the Creation, is composed entirely of dynamic interrelatedness. This perception also informs the Incarnation, the Resurrection, Redemption, transubstantiation, and the full spiritual presence of Mary with its mystical and cosmological dimensions. Perhaps the rigid dividing lines at Vatican II will evolve into new possibilities in the twenty-first century regarding Mary and modernity.

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