Encyclical

MIDDLE AGES AND REFORMATION The society of the middle ages was based in a Catholic civilization, though there were tensions between the Church and the emperors. The empire had a huge influence over the Church even in the election of the pope and the bishops. However, a new movement of reform began within the Church that was concretized by Pope Gregory VII. He released a document called Dictatus Papae in which he affirmed among others that the Roman Church was founded by God alone and the Pope…

Religion refers to the belief of, and worship to a higher unseen power, that is constantly developing, in order to more efficiently answer the enduring questions of life. Christianity is the world’s largest religious tradition, with approximately one third of the world population being Christian adherents; according to the Religious Tolerance Organisation. As a result of Christianity’s vast followers, it is often regarded as a living tradition that is continually subject to change, in order to…

control the Catholic Church had for a very long time. When Pope Paul IV spoke in 1968, he did not say what people wanted to hear and what people expected. His views on birth control were very different from what was considered the status quo. In the encyclical, Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul IV strongly asserted that sexual intercourse has two meanings. Sexual intercourse has a unitive aspect, in which the action brings two people together, and a procreative aspect, in which the action produces…

of contraception because it prevents His plan from being carried out through the creation of sexual intercourse. Another example of the reaffirming of the Church view surfaced in 1968, when it was addressed by Pope Paul VI who issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, "Human Life"), which reemphasized the Church’s consistent teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence. While many different Churches…

existence. And then they told me that it’s because it’s a deliberate violation of the design God built into the human race. I believe if I have known the foundations and moral principal of catholicism, I would be better understand Catholic church, encyclical letter, value. I would like to learn about Augustinian value, but I don’t think I can learn it through the class since most students were grown up in a Catholic family and they are familiar with that. Therefore, I proposed to conduct…

people in opinion is the debate over contraception. The Catholic Church definitively and completely states that contraception is wrong. But, in the encyclical by Pope Paul VI, an alternative option is offered: Natural Family Planning (NFP). This method teaches to utilize the infertile parts of a woman’s cycle to prevent a pregnancy. In the Encyclical Humane Vitae , Pope Paul VI argues that this method is within the precepts of the church and is not wrong, because it observes the natural law, it…

Humanae Vitae is written by Pope Paul VI. He is defending his beliefs of the Catholic Church. The encyclical is written for the Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergy of the Catholic Church. The main topics discussed are for the concern of married people and human society. The encyclical is focused on many different issues that are causing problems in the world today such as marriage, procreation, and abortion which are relevant to all communities and the world as a whole. There has been…

Christ the Redeemer of the World Redeemer, defined by Merriam-Webster, means “a person who brings goodness, honor to something again”. In Catholicism this refers to the person who will carry out the last step of God’s ultimate plan: creation, sin, and salvation. We can see God’s creation through scripture in the Book of Genesis. God spent six days creating the universe, earth, animals, land, and humans. Humans were a different creation than the other things God had created. When God created…

My choice for my second paper was the ecclesiology of Vatican II and the book you assigned me was Rediscovering Vatican II: The Church in the Making by Richard R. Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two…

What really caught my attention when reading through the articles were the eugenic sterilization laws. You can really generate an idea of how harsh these laws were by the statement Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dispensed of how “three generations of imbeciles were enough” (Kevles, 10) during the Buck v. Bell Supreme Court case in 1927. What is even more shocking was learning that two-dozen states during this time period had endorsed laws that permitted the sterilization of such peoples. We look…