Encyclical

Throughout history, the ever-changing morals and principles of the church culture has its challenges to religious traditions and images . Many advances in ecclesiology, the science, the technology and the buildings. The contemporary world has applied increasing pressure to the church where changing theologies and the intrigues of ecclesiastical politics has theologians, historians, professors, deacons and scholars explore, debate and argue context and the model of church. In order to better…

Freedom is an important aspect of Catholic morality. Not to be confused with license, true freedom is greatly dependent on truth and has a profound impact on the human person as a spiritual being. Human freedom separates us from all other beings, allowing us to choose our own path by Christ’s light. The idea of freedom is greatly influential on our lives as followers of Christ. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines freedom as “the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act,…

he too has been cyberbullied because of what he and his communications team have said online. Because of this real experience, it is no wonder that verbal violence on social media is something that the pope worries about. In Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical Letter called, “LAUDATO SI’,” it states, “Today’s media do enable us to communicate and to share our knowledge and affection… they also shield us from direct contact with the pain, the fears and the joys of others and the complexity of their…

What is the view point of the Catholic Church on this scientific technology? The Catholic Church believes that stem cell research should not take place. It says this in the Bible and the Catechism. The Catechism teaches that Experimentation on human beings is not morally legitimate if it exposes the subject’s life or physical and psychological integrity to disproportionate or avoidable risks. Experimentation on human beings does not conform to the dignity of the person if it takes place…

Nicomachean Ethics: Why Friendship is Essential and Not Fickle In book VIII of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle expounds upon the concept of friendship. In order to understand all that Aristotle means by friendship one must first know that there are three categories of friendship: friendship of utility, friendship of pleasure, and the perfect friendship. After analyzing the paradigms of each of these relationships he comes to the conclusion that friendship is crucial to life. He declares: “For…

The incongruencies in the minimum wages of regions in the United States, especially the East, plague individuals and society as a whole by forcing minimum wage workers into poverty. The current federal minimum wage only extends to $7.25 per hour. This incredibly low hourly rate coincides in no way to the average cost of living in the United States. In other words, minimum wage workers residing in the United States do not earn nearly enough to financially support themselves without government…

The State of Michigan’s Act 451 of 1976 provides guidelines on which sexual education courses in public schools should abide. This piece of legislation states that “a person shall not dispense or otherwise distribute in a public school or on public school property a family planning drug or device”, explaining that “family planning” means the “use of a range of methods of fertility regulation to help individuals or couples avoid unplanned pregnancies.” Although teenage pregnancy rates have…

Environmental issues have been the talk of the town by many public figures recently, but it does not always seem to “stick” in the minds of the viewers. Both Pope Francis and Naomi Klein discuss the topic in great detail, but take different approaches in convincing their readers. Klein seems to evokes a great deal of negativity in her book, to the point where it questions the reader’s own actions and almost makes them feel that they are partially to blame for the current state of Earth. Pope…

similar to how the 1987 teaching of the Church regarding reproductive technologies, Instruction on Respect for Human Life (for short) by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI as stated), used similar theology as Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae in the late 1960s that addressed abortion. With the necessity of the teaching in mind that is, like all Church teaching, meant for the general public; so too is my research paper. Hence, my ethos will be primarily based in…

Imagine a world without the east coast of the United States. Imagine the entire state of California evacuated due to severe drought conditions. Imagine continuous forest fires wiping out wildlife in the southern states. Although these disastrous events are not present in the world today, it may be heading in this direction due to the rapid increase in temperature, also known as climate change. The issue of climate change has been playing a variety of different roles throughout the world over the…