Encyclical

caution and suspicion from the Church. This is supported by the growth in anti-Nazi sentiment b individuals or groups ‘as the Nazi regime exerted greater pressure on them.’ For example, the reading of Mit brennender Sorge (“With burning concern”) , an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, which confiscating of copies by the Gestapo or the work of individuals like Cardinal Galen, who publically attacked the Nazi, revealing the secret killing of the handicapped and by his actions alone put an end to the…

intertwined and involved with religious institutions due to new media technologies (Hjarvard, 119) The Catholic Church has procedure in place to deal with the changing nature of media and mediatisation; Pope Pius XII, wrote ‘Miranda Prorsus’ and encyclical letter to suggest that while there is some concern for the morals of mass media in relation to the Christian faith, there ought to be greater Church involvement with the media (Soukup, 235), similarly the Second Vatican COuncil Inter Mirifica…

This inaugural address was so influential that Pope Paul VI "reread the text numerous times over the years" and his 1967 encyclical "echoed its themes and language" (Clarke 6). Also noted by Clarke is former White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger in his 1965 memoir of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days, where Schlesinger goes on to say that "the energies that Kennedy released, the purposes he inspired, the goals he established would guide the land he loved for years to come." Kennedy's…

ecumenical dialogue. Pope John Paul II began this initiative in earnest in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint in which he wrote: “Thus it is absolutely clear that ecumenism, the movement promoting Christian unity, is not just some sort of "appendix" which is added to the Church's traditional activity. Rather, ecumenism is an organic part of her life and work, and consequently must pervade all that she is and does.” Later on in that encyclical, Pope John Paul II conceded “that in the ministry of the…

Liberation theology and Catholic Social Teaching are two very important aspects of Catholicism, and are the basis of which we should live each day. Catholic Social Teaching is rooted in the love of God. God loves us, sent down His only Son, and gave us the Holy Spirit; we are called to use this as a lesson and to love one another as brothers and sisters under God. Catholic Social Teaching is a guide that teaches us and reminds us how to do so. There are seven distinct themes in Catholic Social…

Arguably the leading cause of countless failed marriages, children born out of wedlock, and broken relationships, contraception has been a leading issue in the Church and the rest of the world for decades. It can be traced as far back as Margaret Sanger, a nurse in the early part of the 20th century, who was the editor of the Birth Control Review, and an activist for population control and “the purification of the race.” In order to consider fairly if contraception is moral, the effects and…

Adrienne Keene (2015) brought up a very interesting and valid question in her article, “The Benefits of Cultural ‘Sharing’ Are Usually One-Sided,” “Who has the right to represent an Indigenous community? Outsiders, or the community itself?” Cultural appropriation does not happen exclusively to specific cultures. There are many examples of both the negative and positive impact that culture sharing has had on societies throughout history. This is not up for argument; however, what is up for debate…

responsibility mean having a right to life. Abortion is not giving anything a right to have life. “The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder. ”…

John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor corroborate the descriptions of the Magisterium provided by the Catechism and Congar. The role of the Magisterium is to lead the faithful by scrutinizing and authenticating new theological approaches to interpreting scripture…

Pope John Paul II discusses several factors that contribute to the distribution of Euthanasia in his encyclical letter of the ‘Gospel of Life’, revealing that humans are reluctant to accept suffering so they have the temptation to erase the suffering by “hastening the moment of death”. In addition, the Church urges people to preserve their life, but if under…