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growing corruptions within the Catholic Church; specifically the sale of indulgences, wrote his 95 Theses, a list of propositions against the unholy abuses of power within the Catholic Church. • The Reformation was indeed one of the most significant events in history, because of is far-reaching religious, economic, and political impacts. RELIGIOUS IMPACT • Unity of Europe was completely shattered. • Prior to the Reformation, dating back to the 4th century, the Catholic Church was largely…

The saint I choose to pray to and imitate and whose name I have chosen for the Sacrament of Confirmation is St. Sebastian and his feast day is January 20th. St. Sebastian was an amazing man who made people's lives better following God’s example. For example, he cured many people who had many types of diseases. He once cured a woman who was deaf mute. This is important because that woman wasn’t hearing anything and it changed her life to love God even more. Another example was he was ordered to…

1. Martin Luther was a German monk and a teacher of theology. He was troubled about the possibility of not going to heaven. He led a very strict life, but was more worried about committing sin. Luther read the writings of early Christian theologians, including St. Augustine, and the Bible. He then created a theory of truth only faith not good deeds could bring person redemption and that no good works, rituals, etc. would save a person if they did not believe. 2. He believed that only faith could…

Consequently, everywhere the priest went, he found arising predicaments and situation emerge. When he entered this poor and downtrodden village, they begged him to perform his priestly duties even though he was tired and fatigued. In each of these passages, they described the struggles and burdens that the priest felt when he arrived at the villages. Passage 1 depicts his battle between him and the old man whether or not to hear confession on a night where he is so exhausted. “It would be such a…

The Catholic Church began to have vast authority and control over large regions within the known world. Over the last three decades the church acquired large sums of money and real estate from supporters of the church and Christianity. The papal office had grown accustom to this power it had obtained when two reformers arose and took offense to the structure of the church and its administration. These two reformers were John Wycliffe and Jon Hus. Their ideology and influence created regional…

VATICAN CITY -- (AP) It's now quite certain that Pope Francis' big summit on family issues won't endorse any changes to church doctrine on the church's teaching about homosexuality or whether civilly remarried Catholics can receive Communion. And yet, it seems, everything has changed. From the crucial role African bishops have played in the debate, to calls to remove "intrinsically disordered" from the church's language on gays, to the freedom bishops now enjoy to speak their minds on…

The book that is being reviewed by Charles Teel is Max’s Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” The significance of this book as Charles Teel says it “contends that the Protestant Reformation provided a nest in which capitalism could flourish.” Weber’s thesis is that Protestantism's challenges Catholicism of changing one's views towards the world of how people’s work ethic has changed with the Protestant Reformation. To begin, Weber sees Protestantism’s challenge towards…

Loyola and Calvin thought both had their thoughts when it came to the issues of predestination and christian liberty. Both were around during these times when religious issues were becoming more and more abundant amongst the masses. These issues were predominantly on the forefront for the most part, so they caused the most conflicts when they came about as well. Ignatius Loyola had some contrasting thoughts when it came to the idea of predestination when discussing religion and christianity…

Imagine believing in something so fervently that you would die for that simple idea. During the Hundred Years War Joan of Arc claimed to have received visions from the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine, all of whom told her to support Charles VII to recover France from English rule. She was later put on trial and burned at the stake for heresy and died at the age of nineteen. The idea of believing in something that much, to the point that I would rather be burned at the stake…

For some time the papacy’s home was in France “for nearly seventy years, while still claiming to be bishops of Rome, the popes would generally remain in Avignon”. This contributed to the Great Western Schism, which was a political fight between Italy and France. Both of these countries wanted the pope to live in their own country to skew the power of the papacy in favor of their country and its goals. The election of Urban the VI was the tipping point, he seemed at first a good choice but soon…