Saint Paolo Gabriele
Posted on 27. May, 2012 by Theodore Roe in Current Events, Politics
For the Roman Catholic Church, it has been a bad… well, I would say era (ever since the plebs started waking up in the mid-1500s), but for brevity’s sake let’s say century. The gargantuan religion-cum-nation has suffered some serious blows lately (largely because some of those blows were non-consensual affairs) and its worldwide integrity is [...]
Vodou: The Syncretic Child Of Vodun And Roman Catholicism
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Alex Sharp in History
One of my recent articles about Pat Robertson’s impressively vicious attack on the native beliefs of Haiti has resulted in people asking me questions about Haitian Vodou. While my experience with the different schools of Vodou is limited, I have done a fair amount of reading about other Afro-Caribbean and South American religions, so tackling [...]
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