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By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial...

This has been a year of global crisis. The oil crisis with its escalating prices at the gas station has created enormous stress for both Americans and Hispanics. Coming right on the heels of that, America is also facing an economic crisis that many are sa

El 19 de septiembre de 2013, de forma simultánea, se editó en la revista jesuita La Civiltà Cattolica y en otras tantas revistas jesuitas de otros tantos países una entrevista de Antonio Spadaro, director de La Civiltà Cattolica, al Papa Francisco. La entrevista tuvo tal resonancia que Spadaro se vio sobrepasado por la cantidad de correos electrónicos, cartas, tuits, sms, llamadas telefónicas y mensajes en su perfil de Facebook de gente de todas partes del mundo que le contaban qué impresión les había producido la lectura de la entrevista, que Spadaro define como «una gran...

Just like other monotheistic religions, some branches of Christianity allow women to be ordained. In the first centuries of the Christian religion, there were deaconesses, female apostles and officiants, until the sacralization of the 'kyriarcado' excluded from the right to be ministers of the church.