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Catholic Europe and Francis Assisi

personal and preached rule. "To conquer the temptations he would undertake strict mortifications. He traveled to Egypt to convert ...

Canonization Process

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

Religious Change and 1569's Northern Rebellion

to begin before the date of the rebellion and consider the events that lead to the events, as well as the events themselves. Bac...

Confirmation and Baptism

churches and communities that are not Catholic can also be channels of grace (McEoin, 1997). In other words, the Church recognized...

The Sources of Christian Ethics by Pinckaers

views should be assessed and aligned. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians that they should make the most of every oppo...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...

US Catholic Revivalism

Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...

United States and Catholic Identity

William P. Schoenberg's works are employed in a consideration of Catholic assimilation in the Pacific Northwest in this paper cons...

Christology of Matthew Fox

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

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...

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...

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...

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

abusers" (Jenkins 133). This use of language paints Church officials as innocent victims of social change, rather than being knowi...

Mediator Dei

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

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...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

Theology and Philosophy in the Church

Aquinas. There is a lack of unity in terms of theology. Aquinas attempted to solve this very problem during his time. Aquinass wor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Criteria for Christian Salvation

with subsidiary; people are expected to have the opportunity to participate in civil, economic, political and social life (Libreri...

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...

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...

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...

Deacon's Role as Prophet

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

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...

Second Vatican Council and Roman Catholic Church Changes

(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...