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Sacrament of Confirmation

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

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...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

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

A Comparison of Five Religions

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...

Gay Marriage and the Catholic Church

in these times of change and forward movement. Will the Catholic Church change its stance? That remains to be seen. This is like e...

Social Justice, Wealth Inequality/A Catholic Perspective

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

Religion and its Influence on the Law

Catholic canon law, after all, has a long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartm...

Breaking Barriers between United Methodists and Catholics

In three pages, the author discovers how despite the differences between the United Methodists and Catholics, they should be able ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stem Cell Research and Issues of Christian Morality

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...

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

Overview of the Catholic Church

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...

Christology of Matthew Fox

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

Mediator Dei

by an official of the Church and attended by faithful members of the church. Although the Popes encyclical clarified the sacred ...

The Coming of Jesus Christ

offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

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...

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue & Educational Practice

diversity of educational reforms." This is an extremely large topic, as educational literature indicates that reform is needed in ...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Democracy of Lithuania and the Church's Role

the "mechanical" society grows out of social cohesion, which derives from similarities between individuals in a social group, and ...

Catholic Social Instruction and the Value of Family and Marriage

social structure. His prediction of severely negative consequences directly related to artificial contraception shed light upon t...