Catholic Church Observation Paper

Throughout the centuries, the Catholic Church was the subject to criticism for their flaw in their structure and system, and disappointments for their actions to common people. More and more people of Europe were beginning to lose their faith in the church 's leadership, and also believed that the Church was overly obsessed with money. One man by the name of Martin Luther ignited a group of people who believed that the Church had fallen away from the teachings of Jesus and their meanings. These believed faults compelled Luther to take action which lead to protestant reformation in 16th century. They started to root their origin of religion at this time and still survived in modern era. In this essay I look at the general role of their religion, and how it affects to prayers. Drawing on the views of Clifford Geertz and Émile Durkheim concerning the relativity between …show more content…
But it had short time to observe. For further research, I should attend their ritual every Sunday and participating events and volunteers from other protestant churches so that I could understand fully how believers help each other beyond their social status and how protestant only believe the God, not Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. In addition, I never saw how they are thrifty on their ritual compare to my religion which were big with vocal groups, pianist and decorative objects and sculptures to appeal believers, and they were not part of hierarchy society between believers and pastor. Also I knew that no matter what kind of place is, they perform their ritual anywhere. In my opinion, visiting ritual on Sunday is better for research because unlike the other days, there are few people who participate ritual other days (except Sundays) in my experiences, and attending other same religion based ritual sites to compare with an original observing ritual site where you are