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and death during the time of the Reformations, because it was a way for the churches to establish control over the people. The Protestant Church persecuted people who they thought were witches or were against the church, while the Catholic Church persecuted people who they believed were Protestant or they thought who had ideas that went against what the church was against. All of the persecution that took place during this time proves that Europe was divided in what they believed and…

central ideas of the reformers, and why were they appealing to different social groups? During the early sixteenth-century, people from all across Europe began to have problems with the Catholic Church. Educated professors, common people, and even some religious officials were calling for a reform in the church. The people who led the reformation, known as the reformers had four different central ideas that were the basis of the reformation. The first central ideas of the reformers was “How…

Catholicism and Spain Catholicism ruled Europe with power and prejudice. It inspired the golden age of art and provided thick ideals that are evergreen in our forested society. The Catholic Church roused curiosity of medicine. Along with increasing curiosity, it hampered the progress of the medicine industry. Moreover, catholicism demoralized divorce. Catholicism implanted ideals that have ever lasted throughout the Renaissance. Catholicism affected medicine, discrimination, divorce, and…

come to church with your family. I don’t care what you say,’ my mom told us every Sunday. In the Catholic Church, they never explained it to children. It was all about, you can sin and do whatever you want during the week, but then on Sundays you would come and repent. All we learned was the same things,” Jason said this matter-of-factly while sitting on the couch at his friend’s Tony house in the middle of the Colts vs. Jets game. He goes on to explain that, “I wore a shirt and jeans to church,…

The left wing republicans and the right wing nationalists. The republicans consisted of the workers, the trade unions, the socialists and the peasants whilst the nationalists consisted of monarchists, landowners, employers, and the Roman catholic church. In 1929, the military dictatorship that governed Spain collapsed and in 1931 the king abdicated after the Second republic came to power. The creation of a coalition government of the left wing parties in 1936, sparked a revolt by the…

The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 film that follows the efforts of Vatican priest, Monsignor O’Flaherty, as he hides Jews and escaped POWs in Germany occupied Rome in 1943 during World War II. Priest O’Flaherty’s main adversary is SS Head of Police for Rome, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler. Hundreds of Allied POW soldiers are stealing into the city in hopes of finding refuge within the Vatican walls. When Germany entered Rome, the Vatican declared it’s neutrality in the war with the promise…

memory of his friend whereby, “His clothes are rags, he has to share with his six brothers and a sister and when he comes to school with a bloody nose or a black eye, you know he had a fight over the clothes that morning.” This typifies Irish poverty and its problem as a restriction to those who are a burden to society. As discovered The Church and the St Vincent de Paul Society have control over the amount of aid each family is in need of. Consequently, the imagery created by Frank McCourt…

Erasmus vs Luther The Renaissance period beings in 1350 and that was the start of the “rebirth” in Italy, ending in 1550. During this period, people started hearing stories about the Black Death that happened in Europe and the wars and famine that was going on at the time. The men and women believed these were the devil works and they started questioning why God sent all this harm to people, so Christian leaders comforted people with good works such as, pilgrimages, relics, and indulgences, to…

According to Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Gandhi, King, and Lanza De Vasto the nonviolence philosophy relationship between nonviolence and society was important for social change. Peter Maurin has been studying philosophy and church history. He was most well-known for documenting the three-point program for the Catholic Worker community. Though nonviolence philosophy was a topic of little recent interest, the strategies have been noted in several times in history and seems to have been well…

Europe and The Black Death As the winter of 1348 subsided, the people of Europe finally envisioned the spring days ahead of them. Little did they know that the springtime would bring with it a deadly epidemic that no one could have possibly foreseen. The Black Death could not have arrived in Europe at a worse time as much of the population was already weakened from a scarcity of food due to overpopulation and famine. There was barely any time to react as the disease spread swiftly from its…