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Catholic Meal Service

(Offertory, 2002). It is interesting to note the use of bread and wine in the service, which has several meanings (The Off...

Latin America and Marriage Ceremonial Changes Before and After the Catholic Church Introduction

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

Tutorial on People and Prayer

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...

Characteristics of Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church

was doing the exact opposite of what was being promoted; they were doing what people said would turn kids off of religion and yet,...

Old Testament Canon Development

by various members of the Hebrew-Jewish community between the 12th century B.C. and the beginning of the Christian era (Larue). Th...

Child Abuse and Roman Catholic Priests

are likely committing such acts with the perpetrator out of imposed fear. Part of the coercion is likely based on verbally listed ...

How Flannery O’Connor Reveals Herself in Her Short Stories ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ ‘Good Country People,’ and ‘Greenleaf’

of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...

The Fallibility of the Pope

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...

Scripture and Tradition in Roman Catholic Teaching

God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...

Luke 5:36-39

the old" (Luke 5:36). Jesus continues the lesson by discussing wineskins. If you put new wine in old skins, "the new wine will b...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

Sacrament of Confirmation

us more deeply" in divine association.4 Writer Christina Zaker points out that the references in the Catechism to spiritual matur...

Jesus as Exorcist

"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...

Biblical Inspiration

question to explore is-How? The first factor in his equation is the widely popular notion that God acts in human history. If God...

Priesthood and Celibacy

a mandate for priests (McGovern, 2003). We also know that married priests were common because St. Paul told Titus and Timothy that...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

Was Martin Luther a Revolutionary or Reformer?

but others merely put forward objections for discussion. Copies of Luthers document spread throughout Europe during 1518 and 151...

Comparison Between Catholic and Mormon Interpretations of Christianity

will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...

Renaissance Art

during this period that Europe began to recover from the repercussions of the Black Death, as well as rampant political disorder a...

Roman Catholic Teachings and Suicide

in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable" (The Vatican n.d.). Father Sau...

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

Origin and Tenets of the Catholic Religion

Peter now confessed? Remove it, and nothing can supply its place; the whole of Christianity crumbles into ruin" (Wylie, 1888, p. P...

C.S. Lewis and Catholic Morality Instruction

of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...

Prejudice Against Catholics in Television and Film

of priests are true servants of God and their parishioners but, as is always typical with the media, sensationalism sells. Therefo...

Holy Water

As they enter, the dip finger tips of their right hand into a font of water that has been consecrated by a priest and they make th...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM 2000 BCE TO 1500 CE

This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...

Protestant & Catholic Reformations

a sermon by Johann Tetzel, he offers his congregation a sales pitch that stresses the logic of purchasing an indulgence, which thr...

Structure and Culture

the internal structures. There are a number of different organisational structures which will determine not only how thing are don...