Word: catholicization
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Now appearing in New York, Houston and Los Angeles: Santa Muerte. The personage is Mexico's idolatrous form of the Grim Reaper: a skeleton - sometimes male, sometimes female - covered in a white, black or red cape, carrying a scythe, or a globe. For decades, thousands in some of Mexico's...
In Spain, they're cutting down vast forests in order to build the Armada, with which they intend to impose that country's grim Catholic will on Protestant England. In a glum castle, Mary Queen of Scots schemes to replace her cousin Elizabeth on the English throne - if, of course...
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age” has matured in all ways since its prequel, 1998’s “Elizabeth.” Motivated by the many intricate layers of the personality of Queen Elizabeth I, whom Cate Blanchett portrays in both films, it never...
Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859, into a respectable middle-class Catholic family. Still, it was far from an easy life. There was never enough money; they moved frequently in search of lower rents; and his father, a civil servant and illustrator, was an alcoholic who had to...
"As a Southern Baptist evangelical and political conservative, I am convinced I have more in common with most Mormons than I do with a liberal Southern Baptist, Methodist, Roman Catholic or a liberal from any other denomination or faith group. The question shouldn't be, 'Could I vote for a...