Church Fathers

He answered and all I heard my father say was, “He’s gone Michelle?” The minute my father got off the phone we were all asking him if John was okay. My father looked at my mother, brother and I with teared filled eyes saying, “John is gone.” All I could do was scream in fear of how our entire family would cope. As a family, my father, mother, brother and I went kneel down in our catholic church to pray to God that John would soon be with him. Trying…

Western world. Disgusted at the Catholic church’s insistence on the sale of indulgences and unconvinced as to their doctrine of “salvation by works,” the Wittenberg professor nailed a 95-point document to the front door of his university’s Catholic church. This document, later called the “Ninety-five Theses,” directly attacked the practice of indulgence selling and kick-started a movement that would become known as the Protestant Reformation (Sciarraba, n.p.). Over the next century,…

In his speech to Congress, Pope Francis issued a call to action to lawmakers that would initially challenge the moral boundaries of federal spending, along with other moral issues. These other issues include climate change, the environment, immigration and the death penalty. Of course he addressed the issues in a Catholic view, but he also lectured in a political sense. He knew what he was going into and knew exactly what the issues in our country were. Pope Francis offers suggestions on how we…

My mother and I did not share a typical mother/daughter relationship. There was a time when we would not even speak and years would pass before I would even see her again. However, I would always see her when I looked into the mirror, since I looked just like her. I would hear her laugh because our laughs were identical, and small details we shared would remind me of the relationship I was missing, the relationship I felt everyone took advantage of. During my senior year all hope of a possible…

years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the strawberry fields and my father worked in the…

Jose Rizal A national hero in the Philippines is a man named Jose Rizal that would reveal the corruption of the Spaniards and the Roman Catholic Church towards the Filipinos due to his writings that would change the history of the Philippines. The Spaniards were very powerful during the 1500s. They began to take over cities/countries. The wanted to take over the Philippine island because of three main reasons and those are: they wanted to spread the Roman Catholic religion, during that time the…

throughout, but also brings light to social issues, such as children being raised without fathers. Burton is father to four unwed daughters which have one child each. While babysitting his grandchildren one Tuesday afternoon, Burton notices the impact that not having both parents has on the children 's lives. Throughout his story, Gautreaux ties in the acting out of the children with being raised without their fathers, showing his readers what this could look like and how even grandfathers can…

counseling thesis, I asked my elders at my church about what would be a pertinent topic that would apply to the needs of the church. They responded by saying the majority of their counseling is in regards to relationship, and one in particular: adult-children and their relationship with their parents. Their answer somewhat surprised me, but as I stuck with this topic I began to realize how this problem was something that has affected many members in my church in the past and some in the…

Oesterreicher and Sister Rose Thering. They revolutionized the Catholic Church with their works and influence in the Nostra Aetate. Christianity and Judaism have always been in a quarrel and this document attempts to reconcile them. Seton Hall has had the tremendous opportunity to have such influential individuals as Sister…

Family Assessment of Shelby Eatenton Latcherie Family does not have a universal definition, and over the years the definition has changed from a traditional mother, father, and children to several variations. Examples of these are parents that are unmarried, are of the same sex and those that do not live in the same household but do what is called co-parenting. The definition of family according to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson (2015) is "Family refers to two or more individuals…