Bishop of Durham

Usually a priest will lead the service but this was a special occasion because the bishop came. The bishop and the priest split the sections, since he was there. They read mostly from their holy liturgy book and the service was filled with the congregations responses to the priest’s and bishop’s readings from it. The interesting part was that they…

During this time in England the rise of Burys or Boroughs, this was land given by the King to monasteries. These pieces of land were exempt from the sheriff and bishop of the jurisdiction, giving a good amount of power to the abbot of the monastery (Jordan, 188-193). From 1173 till 1202, a monk named Jocelin of Brakelond recorded different events in his monastery in St. Edmunds, England. His work was later published…

In the Middle Ages, there was a man named Thomas A’ Becket, who rose to great power under the rule of his friend King Henry II. Henry appointed Thomas in order to gain the upper hand in disputes with the Pope and Catholic Church. Thomas would go against Henry which infuriated him. Henry accidentally ordered for Thomas to be killed, leading to the corruption of the Catholic Church and Thomas becoming a martyr. In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, a group of people embark on a pilgrimage…

7. What can a Diocesan Bishop dispense from and what can he not dispense from? The Diocesan Bishop can dispense from universal, particular, disciplinary, and ecclesiastical dispositions that the supreme authority of the Church has mandated for his territory or his subjects. This right to dispense from some laws is conferred at the time of his ordination. Here the Code of Canon Law highlights that the Bishop is not a vicar of the Pope, but he has the power of governance in his diocese because it…

Orthodoxy and Catholicism have a place in amongst over 35,000 Christian organizations (Jacobsen 7). I attended a mass at St. John 's Catholic Church and a service at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, and the similarities and differences that I observed were extremely intriguing. Both services recite similar prayers, like the Nicene Creed and Our Father, and they celebrate the Eucharist during mass. While the Orthodox Church is demographically Greek, the Catholic Church represents a…

wealth. However, after his conversion Saint Francis refused to take on the family business. He had such a strong faith, that he did not worry about what people said about him. This was seen, when the bishop of Assisi went to talk to him, and Francis undressed himself in front of everyone. The bishop was speechless, and soon realized that…

Matthew they did not start the service 20 minutes of worship music like they do at my church. The music did not dominate the mass, it only acted to support the message. There was not a choir or orchestra. I learned that mass is always led by priest, bishop or pope, someone who has taken a vow of celibacy and given his life to God. It made me kind of sad to think that they do not have a family (wife, children, etc). Community Bible Church has a main pastor but we also have guest speakers…

James Joyce’s stories are based in Dublin, Ireland and depict the troublesome and dark lives the Dubliners lived. His stories are based in the times where Dublin was under English/Roman Catholic rule and under their control, their duty was to serve the church under every circumstance. Joyce describes this as if they were paralysed by their supermacy in which he calls it “hemiplegia of the will”. His stories strongly depict the entrapment they felt and how they lived in an oppressive environment…

When it comes down to the fight that took place between the brothers, both of them took place for widely differing reasons. In the case of Romulus and Remus, they quarreled over who would ultimately take the throne of Rome. Under the surface, Romulus and Remus both of them want the throne, and proclaim that their signs from god as evidence to why they should be proclaimed king. This is complicated by their being multiple interpretations of why Romulus ended up slaying Remus, with Livy saying…

“Big Brother is watching you,”—similar to the government portrayed in the well-known dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell, the Catholic Church had thorough control over every aspect of the lowly commoner. Ever since the alleged issue of The Donation of Constantine in the 8th century giving the papacy power of the western Roman Empire, the local church held power over the commoner from preaching to education to local politics (Vauchez 445). With the ability to manipulate the education that…