French rule was established in the Adriatic region of Boka Kotorska following the Peace of Tilsit in 1807. In this context, the French authorities perceived the close ties between the Orthodox clergy and the Montenegrin metropolitan as a potential political threat. This article examines the pressure exerted on the Orthodox clergy to sign oaths of allegiance to the French state in 1810, based on archival material from the State Archives in Dubrovnik. Rather than interpreting these measures in confessional terms, the paper argues that they should be understood within a broader political framework. The loyalty declarations, written in Serbian (Cyrillic script) with Italian translations, are analyzed as instruments of political control aimed at limiting pro-Montenegrin and pro-Russian influence. The article offers a reinterpretation of these documents, highlighting the interaction between religious structures and imperial governance in a contested borderland shaped by the competing interests of Austria, Russia, and France.
Drawing on recently declassified Vatican documents, this article reconstructs the extensive charitable work carried out by the Holy See on behalf of Eastern European refugees and displaced persons in the challenging post-war context of expanding communism, the nascent Cold War, and the evolving attitude of the major Western powers towards the Vatican’s actions, which were met with both support and mistrust. Aiming to transcend the victors’ justice and the logic of political and economic pragmatism, the Holy See launched an extensive charitable work, that was implemented through a series of new offices and missions. This article focuses on the Third Pontifical Mission, which operated in Germany and Austria, and on the hitherto unknown Migration Office, which acted as a liaison between national and international Catholic and secular activities concerning the resettlement of European refugees, in order to provide them with moral, religious and material assistance, and to secure them a future of peace and prosperity.
Roberto Di Stefano, La Inmaculada Concepción en Argentina, Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, San Miguel de Tucumán 2024, 136 pp. (Fernando Armas Asín - Universidad del Pacífico (Perú))671-672 Carlos A. Jáuregui, David M. Solodkow, Bartolomé de las Casas y el paradigma biopolítico de la modernidad colonial, Iberoamericana Vervuert y Universidad de los Andes, Madrid 2024, 451 pp. (Fernando Armas Asín - Universidad del Pacífico (Perú)) 673-675 José Manuel Peramás, Diario del destierro, edición anotada y estudio preliminar de Gloria Chicote, índices a cargo de Camila de Oro, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, Colección Fuego Nuevo, Madrid 2024, 268 pp. (Antonio Astorgano Abajo - Real Academia de Extremadura) 675-677 Rubén Quiroz Ávila, Apocalipsis peruano. El caso del teólogo Francisco de la Cruz en el Perú del siglo XVI, Heraldo Editores, Lima 2025, 139 pp. (Fernando Armas Asín - Universidad del Pacífico (Perú))677-679 José Luis Soberanes Fernández, Carmen-José Alejos Grau, La impronta de las Leyes de Reforma en la sociedad mexicana. Del Porfiriato a la Revolución (1876-1914), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas,Ciudad de México 2025, 646 pp. (Juan-Carlos Rivera-Zelaya - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja) 679-680
José Manuel Seijas Costa, La hospitalidad en las comunidades monásticas de espiritualidad benedictina en la Corona de Castilla en los siglos XIV y XV525-531 Daniel Ochoa Rudi, Pequeños cardenales: un estudio institucional y sociológico del Cabildo Metropolitano de Zaragoza (1676-1800) 532-539 Ramon Díaz Garrido, El archivo de Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel, osb: corpus epistolar con historiadores de su tiempo 540-546 José Luis Fernández Jerez, Historia de la Iglesia asturiana (1931-1949) 547-550 Jaime Ortega Lázaro, La Hermandad Sacerdotal Española en la encrucijada del posconcilio (1969-1990) 550-562 Ángel Marín Berral, La iglesia parroquial de Santa Marina de Aguas Santas de Fernán Núñez. Evolución histórica, transformación arquitectónica y patrimonio artístico 562-567 Tommaso Maria Ross i, Archivos eclesiásticos italianos y españoles: un patrimonio universal de la Unión Europea 568-575
Josep Amengual Batle, La història de Mallorca i les religions del llibre. I/1: Vàndals, bizantins i musulmans (455-903). Basíliques i mosaics. La trajectòria singular de les Illes Balears, Llibres Ramon Llull, Palma 2023, 635 pp. (Rafael Ramis Barceló - Universitat de les Illes Balears – IEHM) 627-628 Olivier Delouis y Annick Peters-Custot (dirs.), Basile de Césarée, Une postérité monastique pour l’Europe, Beauchesne-Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2025, 376 pp. (Manuel Mira - Universidad de Navarra) 629-630 Harry Y. Gamble, Libros y lectores en la Iglesia antigua, Sígueme, Salamanca 2024, 366 pp. Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos 174. (Álvaro Pereira-Delgado - Facultad de Teología San Isidoro de Sevilla) 630-631 Basilio de Cesarea, Contra Eunomio, Introducción, traducción y notas de Manuel Mira Iborra, Ciudad Nueva, Madrid 2024, 252 pp. (Juan Luis Caballero - Universidad de Navarra) 631-633
Felice Autieri, I Frati Minori Conventuali. Una storia: dal 1517 ai nostri giorni, Centro Studi Antoniani, Padova 2025, xxxvi+1140 pp. (Rafael Ramis Barceló - Universitat de les Illes Balears – IEHM) 615-617 Maximiliano Barrio Gozalo, Las iglesias nacionales de España en Roma: Santiago y Montserrat, BAC, Madrid 2025, 400 pp. (Carmen José Alejos Grau - Universidad de Navarra) 617-619 Massimo Franco, Secretum. Intervista con Mons. Sergio Pagano, Solferino, Milano 2024, 445 pp. (Santiago Casas Rabasa - Universidad de Navarra) 619-620 Philippe George, Toucher l’invisible. Pour une histoire des reliques de l’Antiquité tardive à nos jours, Viella, Roma 2024, 328 pp. (Francisco José Alfaro Pérez - Universidad de Zaragoza) 620-622 Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichba uer, Miles Pattenden (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Vol. I: The Two Swords; vol. 2: The Governance of the Church; vol. III: Civil Society), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2025 (Eamon Duffy - Magdalene College, Cambridge (Inglaterra)) 623-625
Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Crear y Recrear los Santos en la Península Ibérica y Mas Allá durante la Edad Media y El Periodo Moderno Temprano c. 600-1600 (Salamanca, 24-26 de marzo de 2025)487-492 Silvia Berrica, Seminario Internacional «Territorio y Edificios Cristianos: Implicaciones Espaciales, Sociales y Religiosas en la Antigüedad Tardía» (Roma, 2 de abril de 2025)493-498 Juan M. de Lara Vázquez, «Catholic Modernity in the Americas. Land, Culture, Politics». Conferencia en ocasión del quincuagésimo aniversario del Cushwa Center for the Study of Amertican Catholicism (South Bend, 10-12 de abril de 2025)499-500 Santiago Pérez Zapata, IV Seminario Internacional «Catolicismos, política y sociedad en América Latina contemporánea» (Ciudad de México, 20-23 de octubre de 2025)501-506 Inigo Bienzobas Gil, Congreso Internacional «The Auditors of the Roman Rota: Social connections, expertise and influence. Rethinking ecclesiastical careers in a transnational perspective (16th-19th centuries)» (Zaragoza, 12-14 de noviembre de 2025)507-512 Francesco Iermito, La parola del papa nel Medioevo. Mise en forme, diffusione e ricezione (Roma, 2-3 de diciembre de 2025)513-518 Antonio Sánchez Rosa, Naiara Ortega Barbero, Congreso Internacional «Instrumenta altaris. Los objetos rituales y sus imágenes para la liturgia medieval» (Madrid, 20-22 de enero de 2026)519-524
Mariano Delgado, Jean-Pierre Torrell O.P. (1927-2025)577-579 Federico Requena Meana, Martin E. Marty (1928-2025) 579-581 Javier Burrieza Sánchez, Teófanes Egido López, OCD (1936-2024) 581-590 Benedetto Ligorio, Agostino Borromeo (1944-2024) 590-596 Francisco Javier Caspístegui, Ignacio Olábarri Gortázar (1950-2024)597-602 Jaume Aurell, Martin Aurell (1958-2025)602-611
Francisco Javier Díez Morrás, Antonio Mendizábal y Llorente (1777-1850). Heterodoxia, liberalismo y reforma eclesiástica, Sílex, Madrid 2021, 442 pp. (Andoni Artola Renedo - Universidad del País Vasco)643-645 Sergio Fernández López, Fray Luis de León: Fieramente humano, Cátedra, Madrid 2025, 558 pp. (Rafael Lazcano - Investigador independiente) 645-646 Luis Ignacio Leach Ros, Catolicismo y liberalismo económico. En recuerdo de Juan de Mariana SJ, Sibirana Ediciones, Zaragoza 2024, 153 pp. (Agustín González Enciso - Universidad de Navarra) 649-650 Moisés Lillo Vicente, Príncipes y esposos de la Iglesia de Granada. De Diego Escolano a Martín de Ascargorta (1668-1719), Editorial Universidad de Granada, Granada 2024, 544 pp. (Antonio Irigoyen López - Universidad de Murcia) 650-651 Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Un jesuita en la ciudad prohibida. Mateo Ricci 1552-1610, Sílex, Madrid 2025, 468 pp. (Anna Busquets Alemany - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)652-653 Alan Strathern, Converting Rulers. Global Patterns, 1450–1850, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2024, 481 pp. (Montserrat Gas-Aixendri - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)653-654 María Pilar Vallés de las Cuevas, Tres altoaragoneses en la Real Capilla. Antonio Allué y Sessé, José Duaso y Latre y José Acisclo Vallés y Pérez, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, Huesca 2025, 378 pp. (José Torres-Remírez - Universidad de las Hespérides (España)) 655-656
A printed sheet from Toledo dating from 1587, kept in the Inquisitorial Archives of the Cathedral of Mdina (Malta), is reported to be the only surviving copy of a series of devotional printed materials related to Sister Maria of the Visitation, known as the «Nun of Lisbon», an alleged Portuguese mystic who pretended to have received the five wounds of Christ, as well as the mark of the crown of thorns. With her fall from grace, the Inquisition ordered the collection and handing over of all objects related to her to the Holy Office, although no other material evidence of this devotion similar to those analysed here is known to date.
The text offers a historiographical overview that seeks to highlight the main works that have been devoted to the study of the figure of the provisional judge and vicar general in New Spain, as well as a related institution: the Tribunal del Provisorato. The main contributions of Mexican historiography, as well as the advances and tendencies of historiographical studies in the Iberian Peninsula and the Lusitanian world will be addressed. In this way it will be possible to make a comparison between different regions and latitudes. Finally, the existing gaps and the possibilities of study around the provisional judge and the provisorates, as well as the administration of ecclesiastical justice.
This article analyzes the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Alliance for Progress, within the framework of this regional assistance body dedicated to achieving economic development and institutional strengthening, with the aim of avoiding guerrilla warfare experiences such as the one experienced in Cuba. In this context, it can be considered that the development of the Alliance project in Chile was influenced by the Catholic Church’s lines of thought and action dating back to the 1930s and fostered by the social conditions of the time, coupled with the impact of social encyclicals addressing the labor and social issues. For this purpose, the study draws on contemporary Catholic publications, pastoral letters from the Chilean Episcopal Commission, speeches and documents from the Alliance for Progress, as well as speeches, and writings by Monsignor Manuel Larraín Errázuriz.
The possession of parish chapels by brotherhoods was the cause of various lawsuits in the ecclesiastical courts of Seville during the modern centuries. These lawsuits were due to the interest of the parish factories or third parties who wanted to dispose of this sacred space. In this paper we have analysed the conflicts that were aroused over this issue, dealing with their developments and consequences for the litigants. Thus, in order to have an adequate contextualization, it has been necessary to analyse the different ways in which a brotherhood could have the ownership of a chapel as the seat of its titulars, either by having the foundational ownership of the space or by cession of a faithful, this being perhaps the most frequent way in practice.
In this paper I focus on the analysis of the jurisdictional function of the clerics of the Hispanic churches during the period of Visigothic domination in the Iberian Peninsula (ss. VI-VII). Based on the study of the secular, conciliar and literary sources that have been preserved to us, emphasis is placed on the important intervention of the clergy in the jurisdiction of the kingdom, both of the bishops, its hierarchical elite, and also of the presbyters and deacons, these latter two orders in their capacity as rectors of the rural churches. On the other hand, the specific work of the clergy in cases of ecclesiastical asylum is also investigated. In addition to the relevance of the judicial function of bishops, it is noted that the jurisdictional tasks that could also involve priests and deacons, and therefore the leaders of rural churches, were very notable. This confirms the importance that the institution of the asylum came to acquire in the group of churches scattered throughout the geography of the kingdom throughout this historical period examined.
This paper analyses the archaeological and textual sources related to the ancient Hispanic rite of lucernarium. Previous research has approached to this subject from philological and liturgical perspectives. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to focus, in an interdisciplinary way, on the ritual structure and chronography of celebratory schemes and its liturgical topography. The documental analysis is complemented with an archaeological approach to some scenarios where would have developed the luceranrium rite. The methodologies that have been employed are those of History of Liturgy and Christian Archaeology, but implementing new items to facilitate a multidisciplinary dialogue. The obtained results indicate that the historical evolution of the rite didn’t exclude the continuity of some oldest archetypal elements. In addition, have been documented a direct correlation between certain ritual trends, the liturgical topography of worship places and their symbolism.
This paper analyses the archaeological and textual sources related to the ancient Hispanic rite of lucernarium. Previous research has approached to this subject from philological and liturgical perspectives. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to focus, in an interdisciplinary way, on the ritual structure and chronography of celebratory schemes and its liturgical topography. The documental analysis is complemented with an archaeological approach to some scenarios where would have developed the luceranrium rite. The methodologies that have been employed are those of History of Liturgy and Christian Archaeology, but implementing new items to facilitate a multidisciplinary dialogue. The obtained results indicate that the historical evolution of the rite didn't exclude the continuity of some oldest archetypal elements. In addition, have been documented a direct correlation between certain ritual trends, the liturgical topography of worship places and their symbolism.
In 1914, the Society ofJesus began the construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Havana. The neo-Gothic style temple constituted the effort of these religious men to strengthen their ties with the local elites. The main objective of this work is to analyze the construction process of the property, as well as to verify the economic supports that favored its conclusion. To achieve the proposed research goals, the collaboration and contact networks built between clerics and a group of members of the wealthy classes have been studied. In turn, the analysis of documentary sources has made it possible to determine how the architectural complex in question constituted a Jesuit effort to situate itself in a political and symbolic panorama dominated by liberalism. Furthermore, the scope of the social legitimation proposal offered by the priests to the Catholic-oriented Cuban bourgeoisie that rewarded the Ignatians with the consumption and support of their religious proposal was evident.
This paper analyses the social dimension of churches as gendered spaces in the context of late-antique Iberia. It therefore studies the different dimensions of women's historical experience of churches from an intersectional perspective, combining gender with other categories of social hierarchisation, such as personal legal and economic status, and taking as a basis for analysis and information the written or literary sources of the period (5th-7th centuries AD) and archaeological and epigraphic sources. It identifies and defines the role that women of the socio-economic elite played as a focus of attraction for Christian matronage and charitable behaviour, financing the construction and restoration of religious buildings or the donation of objects for worship, in a behaviour characteristic of their level of social excellence and no different from that of men of the same rank. Likewise, the possible feminine link to the micro-networks of social and symbolic power that emerge in these religious spaces is investigated, as well as the subaltern involvement of women of lower social ranks in the personal relationships that are woven around the churches. Finally, this study also consider the symbolic dimension of the relationship between women and the Church, mainly through the allegories or feminine metaphors of the Church, which are by no means rare in the written sources of the period, linking both, woman and Church, on a plane of metaphorical meanings, trying to determine their connection with the socio-cultural references of late-antique Iberian society.
