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    I picked Martin Luther, he was an argumentative man. Luther, judged the entire Catholic Church, the position of the Pope, the bishops, the priests, also the monks. Martins’ belief changed Western Culture. Martin Luther believed that the Roman Catholic Church had become too crooked to offer the people the leadership needed to gain redemption. Within ten years Luther had started a revolution that changed Western Civilization. The Catholic Church tried all the will power they had to muzzle Luther,…

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    I came to the U.S. on my junior year. Before this, I never got a chance to learn about the religion and the Catholicism. At the very beginning of the Morality class, I always felt confused and couldn't understand what the teacher’s talking about. I think this is largely because of my lack of knowledge of Catholicism. What’s more, I could understand the policies of Catholic church sometimes. For example, I felt confused the first time when my host family told me that it is always wrong to use…

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    against communism was quite an effective tool for Bishop Sheen to use in his process. This wasn’t more of a tool to help with the show’s ratings, it was something to help understand communism and its evils in the…

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    Church, for many, is a considered a safe place. A place where one can grow spiritually and become closer to their God. But for thousands of children in the last several decades, it has ironically been, a living hell. 1 Corinthians 6:18 states: “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” Despite Christian belief placing high emphasis on sexual morality, and members of the Catholic Priesthood being required to…

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    Vatican is not doing enough to stop the sexual abuse happening inside the Catholic Church, according to Italian author Emiliano Fittipaldi. In an upcoming book titled “Lussuria” (Lust), Fittipaldi features cites court documents and interviews with priests and judicial officials to paint a picture of Pope Francis’ first three years of papacy. The author says the pontiff has done “close to nothing” to address the sexual abuse cases that has tainted the Catholic Church’s image, The Guardian details…

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    Kuda Masunungure Exam 2, Question 1 The Reformations, at their core, were not a protest against the Renaissance but rather a protest against the form of the Church that the Renaissance allowed to exist. The Reformations are therefore shaped by the simultaneous rejection of the opulence and excess that fanned the flames of the Church’s corruption and embracing of expression and individualism that allowed for criticism of the Church to occur. In order to understand how the Reformation's reflects…

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    The Catholic University of America is one of a kind among colleges in the United States — even among Catholic colleges. Also, it's not on the grounds that we're found minutes from the heart of the country's capital in Washington, D.C. It is on the grounds that we were particularly established by the Catholic diocesans of the United States, with a sanction from that point Pope Leo XIII, to be the national college of the Catholic Church in America. We look to develop another era of Catholic…

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    St. Edward the Martyr St. Edward the Martyr’s feast day is on March 18th. He is the patron saint of England and glandular disease. St. Edward was the oldest son of King Edgar and Ethelfleda. His mother was the first wife of his father. She died after her son’s birth in 963 or 964. During the birth of St. Edward it was said his father had a dream. King Edgar’s mother told the story of the dream as said “After your death the church of God will be attacked. You will have two sons. The supporters…

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    You will not have intercourse with a man as you would with a woman. This is a hateful thing (New Jerusalem Bible Lev. 18:22). 2. "The man who has intercourse with a man in the same way as with a woman: they have done a hateful thing together; they will be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads” (New Jerusalem Bible Lev. 20:13). 3. “That is why God abandoned them to degrading passions: why their women have exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices;…

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    response to an unfair legal action, they were closely associated with religion as well. Amaru asserted himself as a devout Catholic, and he used this faith to justify many of his actions. However, his allegiance to his faith became complicated when the Bishop of Cuzco purported that Amaru “set fire to public chapels and the Church of the Sangarara,” an example of a profane act towards “the sacred tabernacle of God”. However, Amaru asserted that “[his] principal goal [was] to end the…

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