When Pope Francis decided to canonize the Franciscan friar named Junipero Serra in September on the pope’s first to the United States, he knew that there would be controversy surrounding his decision. Father Serra was a friar who helped the Spanish mission in California settle and helped to convert the native population to Catholicism. However, the controversy comes from the way in which the friars and the missions went about converting the natives and the way in which they treated them is…
The Landing Page –Guide to Catholic Social Thought in society Catholic Social Thought refers to the body combining social issues within the economic, political, personal and spiritual atmosphere. This is continuously being developed in order to guide each individual, communities and societies in responding to social problems for a greater change in society. “Whenever our interior life becomes caught up its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor…
August 15, 1917 , Blessed Oscar Romero was born. When he was just fourteen years old he knew he wanted to be a priest, so he started to study. Unfortunately, Oscar had to drop out to make money for his sick mother. Seven years later, during World War II he traveled to rome to study. Just when Oscar was thirty years old he became an ordained priest, and decided to travel back to his hometown, San Salvador. After twenty- eight years of hard work as a priest he became a bishop. In 1977 he was made…
is no place for religion in the modern world. People always chose to look at the mistakes and negatives of religion, rather than looking at those who lived their life positively sharing the knowledge of the Church. People like Mother Theresa or Pope John Paul are excellent examples that, according the Archbishop Collins, non-believers should look at and see that those are the types of people that live a full life of Catholic faith, helping people through utilizing the power of the…
If they were able to escape, they were captured and whipped upon orders of Serra himself. All of this information is documented to some extent. Even if there aren’t direct accounts of Junipero torturing innocent people, there are documents of the friars working below him. “Two or three whippings which Your Lordship may order applied to them on different days may serve, for them and for the rest, for a warning may be of spiritual benefit to all,” Serra ordered. (Lopez) Were documents like those…
Martin Luther was a monk in the Holy Roman Empire. Luther had paved the way to question the church, which eventually led to the big conflict with the Pope. Martin Luther thinks that the church it is not a justice place to worship God any more, since the churches are corrupted and powerful. Martin Luther have did some harm and support through his challenge of the Catholic Church, but at the end he did more harm through his challenge of the Catholic Church, he inspired violent revolt, he…
Prior to the Great Schism and the separation of Christians worldwide, there were many things that unified those that faithfully believed in Jesus Christ and His teachings. They were unified in belief and deed, save for some minor disagreements. Because of this, it is practically impossible that the results of the Great Schism, two disputing churches, are as distant from each other as they claim to be. Though highly controversial among modern-day Christians, the Western Catholic and Eastern…
The invention of reading and writing created a mean of communication that allowed anyone to send any message to masses of people. The problem was that when this capability got into the wrong hands, the wrong message can be sent to the public. This is why those who are in power must take it upon themselves to control who is allowed to harness this technology and what is allowed to be written. The term “censura librorum” is a term used by the Catholic Church for the act of having religious…
The Quiet Revolution had a dramatic effect on the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec. Whereas, prior to 1965, the Catholic Church was a dominant cultural and political force Quebec, after 1965 the Catholic Church experienced a dramatic decline in its authority and its role in Quebec society. The people then abandoned the Catholic Church rapidly, and then transferred their allegiance from the Catholic Church to the Quebec state. This created a political vacuum within Quebec, due to the fact that, in…
Why does it seem that some are more fortunate than others? Does God like them more? "And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19 The passage of Philippians 4:19 teaches that my question is answered by God. The passage states that God will meet all of our needs in Christ 's eyes (Phil. 4:19). In humans eyes we may think that if someone has more money than us that we are not blessed this is not the case. In Gods eyes blessings…