Showing posts with label Ibero-America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ibero-America. Show all posts

Friday, June 04, 2021

Another Domino

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Baroque Music in Ibero-America

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Timed for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe?

Sunday, December 06, 2020

Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes



Penguin Books UK. American edition to be published by Viking in September 2021.

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Our Lady of Guapulo

Saturday, October 03, 2020

Vermeule Might Like This



The attempted Hispanicization of the US...

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The Hispanicization of the Uhmerican Church Continues



CNA/CWR: Christ is hope for the Church and the world, Archbishop Perez says at installation
During a February 18 Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Archbishop Nelson Perez was installed as the 14th bishop and 10th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Guess Their Ethnic Background

Do any of them have the blood of indigenous American peoples?



Catholic Herald

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Monday, January 21, 2019

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Remembering St. John Paul II’s controversial 1987 pilgrimage to Chile by Filip Mazurczak

Now is an appropriate time to recall that historic visit and the role that John Paul II and the Chilean bishops played in Chile’s peaceful transition to democracy, as well as clarify some misconceptions about that pilgrimage.

A comment:

“According to George Weigel’s authoritative biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope, during this meeting Pinochet asked John Paul II: “Why is the Church always talking about democracy? One method of government is as good as another.” John Paul’s response was: “No. The people have a right to their liberties, even if they make mistakes in exercising them.”

1. The people have a right to their political liberties, if they are qualified to hold them. 2. This does not mean that a liberal democracy at the scale of the nation-state is necessarily the best or only means of satisfying (1). [my edit]

And this is the problem with popes voicing opinions about political issues, because there is no guarantee that their moral theology concerning political order and community, and the judgments issuing from it, is correct, as none of this falls within the Deposit of Faith as such.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

A German girl, 4th gr: "You remind me of my uncle [who lives in Germany]." Thought that was humorous.

And one of the 4 year-olds, Ibero-American: "I am Jason. He is a bad guy." Why do their parents let their very young children watch horror movies? I don't understand, even if we are not getting their best and brightest.

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

A New Guilty Pleasure?

Probably not... Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso (FB - photos)

Despite the eye candy the characters are more than ridiculous, along with the storylines. Has an intelligent telenovela ever been written? When will the SJWs in Mexico start voicing their grievances against telenovelas? Plenty of bad-think going on there.

Saturday, February 06, 2016

The Opposite of Inculturation

But rather the Hispanicization of the natives... How many Ibero-Americans care about this tradition now?

Bridges of San Luis Rey: Early sacred music from Latin America
February 06, 2016
The sacred music of Latin America in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries has only recently been discovered by recording labels. The results are always striking and frequently marvelous.
R.J. Stove

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Catholics

The Challenge of Our Lady of Guadalupe by Bishop Robert Barron
"I am the ever Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God." In so saying, the Lady of Tepeyac was actively de-throning and de-legitimizing any false claimant to that title.


Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of all the Americas, but who identifies with her the most strongly? The children of the Aztecs and the nations that suffered under them and of the Spanish who settled in Mexico, the new Mexican nation? Do the other Ibero-American nations have as strong a devotion? (Or are they more likely to acquire it if they immigrate to the United States?)

The United States has its own patron, the Immaculate Conception. (I say this instead of: The United States have their own patron. Although the U.S. bishops made their choice in 1847, still I think it is likely that their mindset was more nationalist than federalist.) Do the "indigenous" peoples of the land that is now of the United States identify with Juan Diego and the appearance of the Virgin Mary to him?

What is the relationship of the United States to the rest of the Western Hemisphere? Given the link of the cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Mexican nationalism, is it wise for a Latin bishop in the United States to encourage non-Mexican Roman Catholics to cultivate a devotion to her? Is such a move fairly regarded as a move towards Hispanicization (or Mexicanization) of American Catholic culture? Is it possible for the possession of a common religion to eliminate differences in ethnic identity and culture? I don't believe so.

Thursday, September 03, 2015

Trilingual Mass?

The Archdiocese of Washington has announced the Mass of Canonization for Junípero Serra will be celebrated by Pope Francis in Spanish.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, September 3, 2015

No agenda here...