Further, as the church has become more involved in social and political affairs, it has turned its back on more traditional forms of popular religiosity.

Once the dust settles in Recife, Archbishop Cardosa said, he plans to promote oldtime "popular religiosity" -pilgrimages, pageantry and street processions on saint's days.

For Mexico's 72 million Roman Catholics, the Pope's visit to the United States has struck a deep chord of popular religiosity.

THE recent outburst of popular religiosity in the United States is a most dramatic and unforeseen development in American life.

"The church has always integrated popular religiosity, never excluded it, and this would be a way of excluding it."

Stimulated by the influence in France, the popular religiosity of the Counter Reformation, new orders for women began appearing in the seventeenth century.

Born on October 6, 1922 in the company of Rosario Tatuy Caazapá Department Paraguay, in a peasant family of profound popular religiosity.

Perhaps even more than other Latin American countries, Brazil has a long tradition of popular religiosity focused on charismatic figures.

The laws nourished popular religiosity.

As it became a popular religiosity, there is not the figure of the priest.