Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this paper examines whether the blessing of holy water by the Roman Catholic Church should be regarded as magical or...
In five pages this paper examines Timothy O'Connell's Principles for a Catholic Morality. One other source is cited in the biblio...
This paper examines the Catholic Church's position regarding women, sexuality, and issues such as abortion and contraception in ni...
Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...
William P. Schoenberg's works are employed in a consideration of Catholic assimilation in the Pacific Northwest in this paper cons...
In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...
the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...
intercede on their behalf before God (2002). Hence, saints serve as role models as well as intercessors (2002). Beyond obvious m...
worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...
acronym - prayers are ACTS of mind and heart: * A-doration and praise of God, who made us and through whom we have whatever we hav...
(Offertory, 2002). It is interesting to note the use of bread and wine in the service, which has several meanings (The Off...
The reason these cells are called stem cells is because they are like a stem, these cells are the source of every kind of tissue t...
good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...
in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...
(Huebsch, 2003). New rites were formulated and the new Mass was ready within a year. On the first day it was allowed, Pope Paul VI...
covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...
us more deeply" in divine association.4 Writer Christina Zaker points out that the references in the Catechism to spiritual matur...
controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...
stories in that he was a teacher, a healer, a preacher and a savior. There are many stories of his having the ability to heal, wal...
God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...
By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...
and its failure to promote education for all Canadians, male and female. In the seventeenth century, the first French colonists t...
The leading priest of a particular region was elected by his fellow priests to serve as bishop. These bishops became increasingly...
special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...
Peter now confessed? Remove it, and nothing can supply its place; the whole of Christianity crumbles into ruin" (Wylie, 1888, p. P...
(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...
We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...
This paper explores how different cultures and different religions deal with death. One study revealed differences among three dif...
Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...
This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...