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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...

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...

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...

Saint Teresa of Avila By Herself

she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...

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...

Case Study on an Ethical Dilemma in the Workplace

The primary ethical issue lay in whether to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor of record resisted abortion as an option, in fact...

Sick and Dying Catholic Ministering

in the world (McClory 2002). The Cardinal had lost his battle with cancer and he was ready to let go (McClory 2002). Letting go a...

Intermarriage Between Christians and Jews

fifty years (Sander 27). However, other sources indicate that the rate of intermarriage is on the rise. The 2000 National Jewish P...

Catholic Social Teaching, Solidarity, and Corporations

corporations are larger and have far more fiscal resources than some countries. We also know that multinational corporations can e...

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...

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 ...

Doctrine of Original Sin

"disobedient choice of our first parents," there lurks the "seductive voice" of evil, which is "opposed to God" and therefore sedu...

Theology of Sacraments

that led to holiness and applied that idea as sacramentum, which was to encompass the many different ways of gaining grace. They s...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Parable of the Mustard Seed Exegesis

is only found there and not in any of the other Gospels. It is known that Mark was written in about 70 A.D. and it is believed tha...

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...

The Ethical Philosophy and Moral Actions of Pope John Paul II

study of philosophy; it is a Church that asks questions, even when the answers may be difficult to accept. The members of the Soci...

Modernism And Religion

new, more modernistic approach. During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, which was a theory a...

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...

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...

The Beatitudes in Matthew

cognitively prepare the hearer for the evangelical message of salvation that will soon follow and the third interpretation is that...

Roman Catholic Beliefs About Lord's Supper

it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness...

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...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Catholic Italian Culture

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

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...

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 ...

Overview of the Holy Trinity

like a dove from the sky and remain upon him" (John 1:32). This is specific testimony to the Three Persons, God, who spoke to John...

Ireland from 1879 to 1918 in Terms of Protestant Unionism and Catholic Nationalism

just the opposite during Irelands late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, proving to pull people apart who would otherwise ...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...