Mundos perfectos y extraños en los confines del "Orbis Terrarum"

Los avances conseguidos en el Concilio Vaticano II parecen ser definitivamente aparcados, sobre todo, desde la llegada al papado del cardenal Ratzinger e iniciada por el Papa Juan Pablo II. La reciente elección de un nuevo pontífice, de nacionalidad argentina, el Papa Francisco, está por ver por dónde se inclinará. En el presente texto se aborda el tema de la relación de la Iglesia y el Carlismo en la España contemporánea. El Carlismo nunca se sintió favorecido por la Iglesia, institución que ha cruzado el Rubicón desde la época de Juan XXIII, en la que se afirmó el pluralismo...

Madrid, 24 de enero de 1977. Cinco muertos y varios heridos es el terrible balance de un atentado terrorista contra un despacho de abogados laboralistas cometido en la calle Atocha de Madrid por un comando de extrema derecha. Los fallecidos son los abogados Luis Javier Benavides, Francisco Javier Sauquillo y Enrique Valdelvira; el estudiante Serafín Holgado y el administrativo Ángel Rodríguez Leal. Los heridos, todos graves, Miguel Sarabia, Alejandro Ruiz Huerta, Luis Ramos y Dolores González Ruiz. Casi cuarenta años después de la matanza, en la plaza de Antón Martín, una escultura en ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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