Old Catholic Church

The Medieval society viewed and treated everyone according to their social rank, meaning nobility and ecclesiastical dominated all at the top, and peasants worked for them at the bottom. The Catholic Church's increase in power and wealth in the 14th century resulted in the establishment of expensive churches decorated with excessive amounts of gold. These great displays of wealth angered the people experiencing disease, plague, and famine, especially when churchmen began taking advantage of…

decided to migrate to Ireland because of the support given to the British Army and the Colonial Service by the Protestants. When Sir Guy Carleton was 14 years old his father, Christopher Carleton died, the year after Christopher Carleton's death Catherine Bell remarries is wedded to Thomas Skelton. On May 21 of 1742, Carleton who was 17 years old at the time was appointed as an ensign which in the 3 following years he will make his to becoming a Lieutenant. A few years later, Sir Guy…

considered the existence of a “God” because of the offerings they used to make to some God they had faith in. It was made law that everyone was supposed to be part of the Church of England. However, as it is today, other segregations were founded such as Puritanism, Catholic, and Pilgrims. King Henry VIII was a catholic. The Roman Catholics believed that once you get married, the only thing capable of separating…

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 was the one in…

October 25 Is Reformation Sunday. will be the day that the christian world the following is a brief segment of a class I taught on “Church History on my web, http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com MARTIN LUTHER: was born Nov. 10 1483, in Eisleben Germany. Hon and Magerate Luder welcomed to their home their 2nd born. Next day he was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church as Martin Luther. (I am not sure why the name was changed from Luder to Luther). Hon Luder was a labor, Martin stated later…

Martin Luther was one of the most influential people of the Reformation. His actions broke the Roman Catholic Church in a new Denomination of Christianity (Lutheran’s). His desire for people to feel close to God, which fundamentally changed the relationship between the leaders of the church and believers. He later translated the Bible into his peoples' language, German. So how did he accomplish all of this. Martin Luther’s first few years of his life were a time where he was unable to find a…

The Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide established by the Roman Catholic Church was rather focused on persuasion or even education of the New World (2000, p. 367). This body of Catholic Church was aiming at "the peaceful propagation of the Catholic faith...with responsibility for carrying the faith to the new world, and for strengthening and reviving it in the old" (Quaker, 1962, pp. 3-4). This in part explains why propaganda and persuasion are often used interchangeably…

fighting became known as the Albigensian Crusade. The Catholic Church condemned Cathars as being heretics because of their dualistic beliefs; however, Cathars considered themselves to be “true” Christians since the term Cathar comes from the Greek katharos, which means pure or clean. The religion was based on the notion that the material world was evil, and that the God of the New Testament was a good God and creator of the spiritual world, while the Old Testament God was evil and creator of the…

These matters include the remarkable story of St. Augustine’s life and the example he set for modern Christians, the Protestant reformation of Roman Catholic…

Loundy Silkman The Early Church and Persecutions For many years Christians and pagans coexisted until the emperor Trajan made Christianity illegal- a situation that stayed in effect for 100 years until the rule of Constantine. During the 100 year that Christianity was illegal people met underground in people’s apartments. These early builders of the Church had to meet in secret, yet they served as the cornerstone of Christian worship in Rome. Throughout this time many of the Christians’…