Manual de la Eclesiología para Los Católicos de Hoy

Using the perspectives of history, pastoral theology, and cultural studies, the author presents a brief, popular, and informative introduction to the way that Catholicism has come to be practiced throughout Latin America, and is finding itself practiced in more and more multicultural Latino parishes in the United States. It looks also at the lived experiences of Latino Catholics in the Carribean, Mexico, Central or Meso America, the Northern Andes, The Southern Andes, The Southern Cone, and Brazil. It examines the cultural and theological particularities of Latin American Catholicism as...

Devotion to the Blessed Mother is at the heart of Hispanic Catholicism. Timothy Matovina, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame and former codirector of the Institute for Latino Studies, offers a short introduction to the important role of Mary in Catholic faith. This new addition to Ave Maria Press’s Recursos para el ministerio hispano series provides lay ministers, catechists, and others in ministry with a grounding in contemporary theology about Mary that is necessary for pastoral ministry. Hispanic Catholics have a deep devotion to Mary and rightly...

María de Magdala, Juana, Susana, Salomé, María... También las mujeres siguieron a Jesús durante toda su vida pública, con los Doce y otros varones, como testimonian los evangelios. Y Marta y su hermana María estuvieron también entre los primeros discípulos de Jesús. Escucharon su Palabra, dialogaron con Él la angustia de la cruz, mientras que casi todos los varones le negaron o le abandonaron. Y ellas fueron las elegidas por el Resucitado para anunciar a los demás la Buena Noticia que fundamenta la fe cristiana: "Anda, ve a decir a tus hermanos..." ¿Quiénes son estas mujeres?...

Re-creating the speech that the Dalai Lama gave a few years ago to more than 10,000 people in southern France, this spiritual account shares some of the Dalai Lama’s most important teachings and Buddhism’s main principles, especially those concerning Dzogchen, or the Great Perfection. The ways that the mind can transform itself through love, compassion, and an understanding of the world along with practical advice on how to implement Buddhist practices into everyday life are also discussed. Recreando el discurso que dio el Dalai Lama hace unos años a más de 10.000 personas de todo el...

Shedding light on how one of the world's most influential religions views one of the world's oldest institutions, this study examines marriage in the context of Islamic tradition and describes the beliefs that guide the behavior of spouses toward each other. Several examples of the importance of marriage within the Islamic framework are presented, such as the way Islam facilitated marriage, reducing the requirements of formality and easing the economic burden; the way the Prophet Muhammad encouraged Muslims to marry—even those who had rejected marriage and family to devote themselves to...