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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

the church flip flops but it seems to skirt the issue. The Church does not order deaths, but the church often looks the other way....

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

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

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

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

This paper explores how different cultures and different religions deal with death. One study revealed differences among three dif...

We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...

A Sacrament is a Christian rite recognized as of particular importance and significance. Not all denominations recognize the same ...

Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...

views regarding homosexuality. The Catholic and Jewish religions are unique in their adaptations, however, in that church doctrin...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In five pages this research paper discusses the Catholic Church's doctrinal differences between mortal sin thought and actions and...

that came from the Jewish Passover Seder, but there is a great deal of history surrounding it. Clark (2000) explains that one ca...

Jews were not the only ones affected by anti Semitism. In the nineteenth century not only they but Cristians, Catholics in partic...

Fr. Yves Congar and the impact of his France work upon the Roman Catholic church past and present are discussed in nine pages. Si...

In six pages this paper discusses the Catholic religion in an analysis of the sacraments' significance. Four sources are cited in...