Old Catholic Church

The American society has always been considered a melting pot, but now the times have changed, and the American society is switching more into a Salad Bowl. I grew up seeing society as a melting pot. In the town I grew up in it was mostly from a European Christian background, and I had the perspective that everyone was the same as us. In my teenage years I became friends with people from all over the world and I began to seeing society as the salad bowl. American society is part salad bowl, part…

team discovers the Church used different designations to say where the priests were who had been discovered abusing kids. Matt tells the team, I’ve been through a lot of these. ‘Sick leave’ isn’t the only designation they use when they take one of these priests out of circulation. They use a slew of terms—‘absent on leave’, ‘unassigned’, ‘emergency response’” to which Mike quips “They got a name for everything, these guys” and Sacha responds bluntly, “Except rape.” When the Church used…

pressing issues the Christian church faces today is with its vocations. The problem is the increasing lack of vocations to ministry and service to the church due to a number of pre-existing issues the church has been facing in recent years. These issues alone were already notable; however the evident decrease in vocations has quickly become a much larger issue for the church {footnote}. The reason as to why a decrease of vocations is a major problem for the church is (in my opinion) best…

The Protestant Reformation’s impact on Art The Protestant Reformation a response to the corruption and abuse of the Catholic Church had a great impact on art in the 1600s. This changed the political and religious makeup of Europe. Before the Reformation, the arts was closely supervised and sponsored by the Catholic Church or wealthy Monarchs. I will discuss the Reformation and its influence on artwork from Jacopo Tintoretto and Albrecht Durer, two artists from that time. The Protestant…

One of the key figures in church history is John Calvin. John Calvin is someone who radically changed the early Christian Church. Similar to Luther, Calvin was someone who drove the Reformation forward. Calvin however had slightly different beliefs from Luther, especially when it came to the sacraments. This paper will explore who John Calvin was, how he differed from Luther, and what his main teachings were. The doctrine of Calvinism helped shape the early church, and is still held true by…

had risen to conflict. The Catholic Kingdoms had originated from the Roman Empire after the civilization had fallen. The Kingdoms expanded its territory from present day France through present day Hungary; essentially Western Europe (Crusades Map). In the Catholic Kingdoms, the Pope had control of all church affairs, and the priest had control over a single church (Ellis 217-218). During the late 12th century, the Holy Father was Pope Urban II. Pope Urban II was a Catholic Christian and was in…

the time period of the majority of Kant’s work, the Enlightenment was rampantly spreading throughout Europe. The Enlightenment, a movement based on human reason and a shift away from the previous confines of Christianity, specifically by the Catholic Church which dominated the Dark Ages. Kant himself described that the Enlightenment “does not involve a human concept of a god, or of mysticism, or of spirituality, or of magic, or of a supernatural anything” (Kant, 17enlightenment something). This…

resources, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Hans Urs von Balthasar, to complete his augments with economic issues. William Cavanaugh is the senior research professor at the Centre for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology as well as professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago. I believe that Cavanaugh successfully constructs his arguments and assembles a strong support for his goal of the book. Cavanaugh desired that the book would be useful and supportive of a form of…

Concerning church life, Mrs. D. X., born 1932, mentions that she was born in a religious family, and, therefore, had to go to church/mass always on Sunday. Mrs. H. U., born 1927, mentions that they had a barack as church room; because she had got the key, she had to open and to prepare the room for services or masses Mrs. T.S., born 1936, mentions that protestant services were held in the catholic church, later in a school. She remembered not only the Protestant pastor, but also a couple of…

The Western Schism was a divide in the Catholic Church from the years 1378 to 1417. This divided caused three people to be the Pope at the same time in 1409. Not to be confused with the Great Schism in 1054 which created the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. This division created tension in Europe as different countries supported different Popes. The divide happened because Pope Clement V moved to Avignon, a town in East France, in the early 1300s. Allowing the French king more control…