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Galileo and Why He Should Have Been Excommunicated

all involvement with Copernicanism and to stop teaching and talking about this approach (ChristianAnswers.net). The fact that he d...

3 Issues Pertaining to Latin American Society

In six pages this research paper discusses women's roles in Latin America and the economic effects, the Catholic Church throughout...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

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

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...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

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...

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...

Christian Theology, Family, and Marriage

covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...

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...

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...

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...

Saint Christopher and Saint Peter Canonizing Justification

intercede on their behalf before God (2002). Hence, saints serve as role models as well as intercessors (2002). Beyond obvious m...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Spanish Conquest

In eleven pages this paper discusses the role the Catholic Church played in the Spanish Conquest of this period. Six sources are ...

Roman Catholic Church and Gay Marriage

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

New France and British Conquest

and its failure to promote education for all Canadians, male and female. In the seventeenth century, the first French colonists t...

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...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

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...

Roman Catholic Church and Process of Canonization

in a huge portfolio (Lim and Lau, n.d). The inquiring process is next and there are three kinds of inquiry processes: 1. Informa...

Christian Church and Generation X

In twenty five pages this paper examines how the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have been affected by the 40 million Gener...

Middle Ages and How Artistic Creativity was Influenced by Christianity

In seven pages this paper discusses how during the Middle Ages the creativity of artists was strongly influenced by the Catholic C...