scholarly journals The Catholic Church in the Czech Lands during the Nazi Occupation in 1939–1945 and after

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Smid
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
Czech Lands ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The Catholic Church

El presente estudio aborda la persecución religiosa en los territorios checos (Bohemia, Moravia y la Silesia checa) durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, momento en el que dichos territorios formaron parte del protectorado de Bohemia y Moravia siendo ocupados por la Alemania nazi. El objetivo de este texto es demostrar cómo la Iglesia Católica, su jerarquía y sus sacerdotes actuaron como relevantes patriotas que no dudaron en plantar oposición a las fuerzas ocupantes y expresar su rechazo a los procedimientos de aquéllas. Además, el papel de la Iglesia católica en el plano doméstico y sus lazos exteriores con la Santa Sede también serán analizados. Finalmente, se presentarán las figuras de los sacerdotes víctimas de la represión nacionalsocialista en los territorios checos. La metodología básica de este estudio consiste en el análisis descriptivo desde la comparación de la vida espiritual antes y después de la ocupación alemana. Además, el método analítico-sintético será empleado en combinación con la interpretación de los hallazgos realizados. A todo ello cabe añadir un último método, no siempre fácil de aplicar, como la hermenéutica. Esto es, la interpretación socio-histórica de fenómenos en un esfuerzo por revelar el carácter único de los textos analizados y demás fuentes, así como empatizar el particularismo del desarrollo cultural y espiritual de la Iglesia checa y su historia a lo largo de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

scholarly journals El diablo anda suelto: algunos rasgos del imaginario religioso de los pacoreños de la primera mitad del siglo XX

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Alberto Isaza Gil
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Imaginary

El presente ensayo interpreta el uso de exemplas alrededor de la figura del diablo en la localidad de Pácora (Departamento de Caldas) durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX. El autor tiene en cuenta la tradición oral y hace uso de la técnica de entrevistas para ofrecer su comprensión sobre las apariciones y creencias sobre el diablo en el contexto de una comunidad religiosa y laica. La interpretación ayuda a comprender tal fenómeno bajo el impacto e influencia de la iglesia católica, en el contexto de una comunidad aislada, cerrada y como parte de la vida cotidiana y el imaginario de sus habitantes.Palabras clave: diablo, iglesia católica, imaginario colectivo, cultura paisa, exempla.The Devil is free: Some religious imaginary features of people from Pácora in the first half of the 20th century AbstractThis essay shows the use of exempla in Pácora (Caldas) around the Devil’s role during the first decades of the 20th century. The author takes into account the oral tradition and holds interviews for offering his own understanding about Devil’s apparitions and beliefs within a religious and secular community context. The interpretation helps to understand this phenomenon under the Catholic Church impact and influence, within an isolated and closed community context, and that is part of the inhabitants’ everyday life and imaginary.Keywords: devil, Catholic Church, collective imaginary, Paisa culture, exempla.

Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a perverse religious organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Eduardo Acuña Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conversion Event ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

The origins of the Catholic Social Guild in Scotland: ‘We have not attacked the Socialists professedly’

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Potocki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Social Message ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Catholic Church

The activities of John Wheatley's Catholic Socialist Society have been analysed in terms of liberating Catholics from clerical dictation in political matters. Yet, beyond the much-discussed clerical backlash against Wheatley, there has been little scholarly attention paid to a more constructive response offered by progressive elements within the Catholic Church. The discussion that follows explores the development of the Catholic social movement from 1906, when the Catholic Socialist Society was formed, up until 1918 when the Catholic Social Guild, an organisation founded by the English Jesuit Charles Plater, had firmly established its local presence in the west of Scotland. This organisation played an important role in the realignment of Catholic politics in this period, and its main activity was the dissemination of the Church's social message among the working-class laity. The Scottish Catholic Church, meanwhile, thanks in large part to Archbishop John Aloysius Maguire of Glasgow, became more amenable to social reform and democracy.

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