Bishop

Reflection on Spirituality Unit Throughout the Spirituality Unit, I received a deeper insight and understanding about Catholicism and Aboriginal beliefs. As I discovered new information, I also started to develop more enquiries. This lead to further investigation and research on the topics I found intriguing, hence, a more fulfilling and enriching experience. In the past week, I learnt that the Aboriginal religion is very totemic. This is due to the fact that Aboriginal communities have totems…

With the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the Roman Catholic Church emerged and began its course to spread the word of God throughout Europe. Throughout the Middle Ages one of the most dominant religions the world has ever seen which was the Roman Catholic Church, played an integral role in the lives of everyday people. In these times, the Church was much more than a mere religious organization, instead playing a hand in hand role in many aspects of daily life as well as playing a key role in many…

Eastern Orthodox theology relies on the experiences, and developments that took place centuries ago in the East. It is more “spirit-sensitive” and saturated with pneumatology. This emphasis does not exclude Christ or the trinity in its theology. The Eastern Orthodox Church believes, in the holy trinity and that all three persons share in the activity of the others. The doctrine of salvation focuses on continuous growth in sanctification resulting in deification, or rather becoming like God.…

The papacy has stretched over the course of 1982 years from the first pope Peter the Apostle to the current pope Francis I. There have been popes who have wielded great amounts of power like Innocent III and those who did not wield much power like the modern day popes. There were those who were immoral like Alexander VI and those who were kind hearted with a servant attitude like John Paul II. Throughout the reigns of the 256 popes from Peter to Francis, they were seen as spiritual leaders. For…

shown that it is. Well every story has a beginning and this one begins in the 1st century. When Peter died the Christians were at a loss as to what they should do some took the route of building a hierarchical church whose head should be called the Bishop…

The relationship between the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire has long since been a delicate balance between two of the most influential powers of the 8th and 9th centuries. There has always been a struggle between these two powers; a struggle concerning the jurisdictions of control each presides over one another. Some of the most influential moments in the history of the Papacy have occurred between the Pope and the Byzantine Empire; whether that may be the Iconoclast Controversy which sparked a…

(Newman, 2015). Not to mention, women in the middle ages were given permission to commit themselves to the church (Newman, 2015). However, the Council of Epaon of 517 impede them from positions of leadership like priesthood or becoming deaconesses and Bishops but they were afforded the opportunity to become church nuns or sisters (Newman, 2015). Women’s commitment to the church means that they are married to the church, therefore, they will not be allowed to marry or have children Newman, 2015).…

The beginning of The Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, came after the fall of the Roman Empire. The middle Ages was a time of disease and death for European culture that clouded the time from 400 AD to 1200 AD in darkness and hopelessness. The Political culture of the Medieval ages is what best known for its instability for power over the competition for royalty. The culture of the time was very idealistic in nature by thinking of their surroundings as they should rather than what they…

“The purposes [of indulgences] served should be proper and reasonable… remission of punishment due for temporal sins…”(Doc6) This was little slip of paper that was supposed to give the buyer a pass into heaven, a ticket out of purgatory. “Also [bishops and high priest] make many new points of belief, and say it is not enough to believe in Jesus Christ…”(Doc1) This could also be used on a dead loved one by placing it on their grave. It was supposed to help their souls pass from purgatory to…

wrong doing as well as going by church rules by not allowing a priest and nun to be in a room alone with one another. Stefanovici states that "Sister Aloysius has to respect the patriarchal hierarchy of the catholic church, so she cannot go to the Bishop, Monsignor Benedict, to complain. Moreover, she knows Monsignor Benedict "thinks the sun rises and sets on Father Flynn" so he will not support her." (Stefanovici 215). If either Sister James or Sister Aloysius were to go to Monsignor Benedict…