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The article titled "Penitence and Grace in Blaise Pascal" discusses Pascal's understanding of charity and its relationship with the Eucharist. Pascal desired to receive communion in his last days, but the doctors did not consider him to be in danger of death. As compensation, Pascal asked that a needy person be taken care of in his home or be moved to a hospital. Pascal saw charity as a way to supplement communion. The article also mentions Pascal's involvement in the penitential controversy of the 17th century and the indulgent attitude of Jesuit confessors. Pascal also engaged in a controversy against the Jesuits and defended the Augustinian theory of grace, which emphasizes the disproportion between man and God. Pascal approaches devotion and spiritual consolation, housing God's grace in the heart instead of the intellect. Pascal believes that God's love is revealed in dazzling flashes in a night of fire and that the heart has its own reasons that reason does not understand. The text speaks about the relationship between faith and reason in religion, and how Blaise Pascal was never convinced by the God of philosophers. Pascal believed that God cannot be derived from nature or the creature, and that faith is necessary to understand the mysteries of the Trinity and the incarnation of God. It is also mentioned that God hides to be found only in love, and that Jesus Christ is the transformative value of lowliness. The text concludes by discussing Pascal's last days and his love for poverty. [Extracted from the article]

The subject of this paper is the epidemic that occurred over Santafé -now Bogotá- and its four parishes between December 1782 and March 1783. From the perspective of the demographic history, we explore the effect this epidemic had on the city’s mortality. The mortality curves constructed based on parish records allow the monthly mortality recorded during 1782 and 1783 to be analyzed in two age groups: adults and infants. With the help of the method known as the 'multiplier factor', we were able to calculate the differential intensity of the epidemic by age group, and by gender and quality in adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decline in the number of clergy, the demographic shift from rural to urban areas, and the dechristianization in countries of long-standing Catholic tradition, make it necessary to rethink the pastoral care of the faithful. Additionally, a question arises as to what to do with places of worship that are no longer used for their original purpose –maintenance, closing, disposal, repurposing (or not) for other ecclesiastical uses, etc. This article proposes pastoral-legal solutions and offers some considerations that need to be taken into account in these matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the impact of the smallpox epidemic of 1797 in Jonacatepec, a rural parish in Central New Spain, a severe outbreak that took the lives of many children below the age of 9. The study of this particular epidemic is important not only because the disease spread through broad areas of New Spain and the Spanish Empire, but also because efforts were made to inoculate the population. The procedure applied can be seen as an antecedent of current vaccination campaigns for it consisted in injecting pus from smallpox patients into healthy individuals who would thus contract only a mild form of this otherwise deadly disease. Inoculation was widely-diffused and, in the case of the outbreak of 1797, achieved notable success because a smaller number of people died. This essay examines the situation in Jonacatepec, where the owner of two haciendas hired a doctor to inoculate his workers. The documental sources consulted show clearly that fewer people became sick or died on the haciendas than in the headtown and outlying villages, where people refused to be inoculated. Sources include archival documents, records and a valuable registry of patients and the dead, compiled during the epidemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The management of the temporal goods of the Church is analyzed in CIC 83, Book V, Title II, cc. 1273 - 1289. And also, about the goods of Religious Institutes is necessary to take into account cc. 636 - 638. This subject of the management of the ecclesiastic goods is also found in CIC 17, Book III, Part VI, Title XXVIII, cc. 1518 - 1528, and related to the goods of Religious Institutes, the canonic norms of Book II, Part II, Title X, Chapter III, cc. 531 - 537 are applied. The particular right of each Institute is also applied to each one of them. This article is part of other ones, published in this journal Universitas Canonica, which analyze some topics of Book V, CIC83, and Book III, CIC17. Showing the topic of the management of the goods of Religious Institutes, this article will analyze its doctrinal and canonic understanding, the kinds of managers of the goods, and the ways of management that we have in the Church, taking always into account the sense that such goods must have in the Religious Institutes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Holy See's role in the crisis has been object of much criticism. Here I analyze the more modest role played by John Paul II and the most important one by Benedict XVI. I also offer an outline of the different accusations. The media has accomplished a good job making public the abuse scandal and its mismanagement. They have had failures in their treatment of the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses Catholic Church legislation during the year 2010, specifically that which relates to ecclesiastical law in Spain. It examines the state of the Church's administrative institutions in the country, including its economic and financial conditions. The author analyzes the use of ecclesiastical titles and studies several laws promulgated throughout 2010 in Spain, including the Ley 39/2010, which deals with the Church budget, and the Orden EHA/799/2010, which refers to the Church's income tax.

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We present the series of income from three administrations of the cathedral of Santiago: the chapter, the music chapel and the building of the cathedral. We aim to publish annual data from the early seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries and demonstrate that the building of the Church of Santiago had financial difficulties, while the chapter was an institution rich and powerful. The deficit of the cathedral was resolved with private donations, but mainly with the contribution of the music chapel, a situation unique among the cathedrals of the Crown of Castile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo proporciona información sobre la administración apostólica dentro de la organización eclesiástica, enfocando en su posición teológica y canónica. Se describe la elasticidad de la Administración. El artículo también ofrece información sobre la administración apostólica personal «San Juan María Vianney» y proporciona varias soluciones a una situación acerca de los fieles tradicionalistas en la diócesis.

Obviously, it is not possible to talk today about ecclesiastical poverty without having both a historical foundation and a general view of the issue. In fact, today it is discussed a lot about the "poor church," as well as our Franciscan poverty, as a total renunciation of all the material goods. It is necessary, nevertheless, to understand that the church, theandric reality, that is, humane and divine, has the need to have access to the availability of economic goods for the exercise of the cult, the support of the ministers of the cult, and for the maintenance of the works of the apostolate and of charity towards the poor. The religious orders must practice the evangelic poverty disposing of the properties for the ends aforementioned. The goods that we get are God's goods and they must be holy managed over the responsibility of administration of the church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented for the subsequent section of articles, which are based upon the Asamblea Año XIII (Assembly of the Year 1813) in Argentina, on topics including law reforms, church administration, and popular sovereignty.