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Condoms, HIV and the Roman Catholic Church [PDF]
For decades, the Roman Catholic Church opposed use of condoms to prevent spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI) because of their contraceptive effect. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI said that widespread use of condoms could worsen the situation, a position rejected as 'unscientific'.
Giuseppe, Benagiano +3 more
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Roman Catholic periodicals in the national media space of Ukraine
The Second Vatican Council became a prerequisite for the functioning of the mass media of the Roman Catholic Church, defining mass media as a strategic object for spreading the ideas of the Church, Christian upbringing.
Olga Kerc
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An attempt at the ethno-confessional transformation of Orthodoxy in Poland (1923-1939)
Neounia is one of the common names of the new unified church, which was introduced by the Polish Roman Catholic bishop on the Ukrainian and Byelorussian lands of Poland during the interwar period (1923-1939).
Nadiya G. Stokolos
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The Role of the Laity in the Roman Catholic Church and in the World Today [PDF]
Fifty-four years after Vatican II, it seems to the researcher that the role of the laity in the Roman Catholic Church is still problematic to some clergy and the laity.
Anthony Kofi Anomah , Peter Addai-Mensah
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The article treats baptismal, matrimonial and death parish registers in 17th–20th centuries, also lists of confirmees and lists of converts to Roman Catholic Church or Orthodox Church, lists of parishes and parishes’ residents of territories in Lithuania,
Saulius Žilys
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The catholic reform: Towards a modern symbiosis of religion and politics [PDF]
The paper discusses the Catholic Reform as a period of change in the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries, which opposed the Reformation, and which contained a symbiosis of religion and politics.
Elezović Dalibor M., Kocić Marija V.
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The Liquidation of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Latin Rite in the USSR (1917–1938)
After the peace treaty with Poland (18 March 1921) and after the reorganization of the Church administration in 1921 and in 1923, ten administrative units of the Catholic Church were placed within the borders of the USSR; eight were of the Latin ...
Jan Szczepaniak
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The Impact of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Business and Public Policies Strategies [PDF]
The present study, based on data provided by the National Institute of Statistics on the ethnic and religious distribution of the population in Romania, analyzes the main ethnic groups in our country: Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Germans and Ukrainians ...
Iustin Cornel Petre, Kamer-Ainur Aivaz
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Why not join the Roman Catholic Church?
The title of this contribution is purposefully ambivalent. It can be read as a rhetorical question: when there are so many good reasons to join the church of Rome, why should Protestants refrain from taking this step? The most important historical reason for the Reformation was the state of the church: the authority of the office, and the episcopacy ...
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Synodalność w prawosławnej, protestanckiej i katolickiej refleksji teologicznej
The aim of this article is to show some issues of a theological reflection on the meaning of synods in Orthodox, Lutheran, and Catholic theology. Orthodox theologians justify the synodal dimension of the Church by the teaching of Christ, the practice of
Janusz Bujak
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