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Mark Tooley. Mark Tooley (born 1965) is an American Methodist layman and writer. He is a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church, who became president of the Washington-D.C.–based Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), in 2009, an ecumenical religious think tank that makes Christian arguments for democracy, human rights and religious freedom.
First Things (FT) is a journal aimed at "advanc[ing] a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society", [1] focusing on theology, liturgy, history of religion, church history, culture, education, society, politics, literature, book reviews, and poetry.
Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Sisters of the Pious Schools: Sch. P. St. Paula Montel Fornés: 1847 Institute of the Holy Family: Blessed James Alberione: Pauline: 1960 Institute of the Incarnate Word (Instituto del Verbo Encarnado) I.V.E. Institute of the Incarnate Word: I.V.E. Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela: Institute of the Incarnate Word: 1984
The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, formerly called Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL; Latin: Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae), is the dicastery of the Roman Curia with competency over everything which concerns institutes of consecrated life ...
A religious institute is an institute of consecrated life whose members take public vows and lead a fraternal life in common (Canon 607.2). They are broadly termed as religious and include monastic orders, mendicant orders, canons regular, and clerics regular. Some religious institutes engage in a particular ministry such as education ...
What makes the consecrated life a more exacting way of Christian living is the public religious vows or other sacred bonds whereby the consecrated persons commit themselves, for the love of God, to observe as binding the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience from the Gospel, or, in the case of consecrated virgins a holy resolution (sanctum propositum) of leading a life of ...
The list of the worst countries for religious freedom is out — and Iran, China and North Korea are among the worst offenders. This comes from the U.S. Commission on International Religious ...
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) is a free source of online information related to American and international religion. [1] One of the primary goals of the archive is to democratize access to academic information on religion by making this information as widely accessible as possible. [ 2 ]