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International Catholic Deaf Association The organization I have been assigned to do a report on is called International Catholic Deaf Association. The organization was established to bring together the deaf Catholics in around 1949 in Toronto, Canada. Deaf people from New York, Michigan, and Canada worked with priests to set up the organization. Also with the archbishop of Toronto, James Cardinal McGuigan, who gave his approval for the foundation of the ICDA. The points in the report that…

winning the ears and hearts of people. There are many Christians today who face persecution all over the world, especially in the Middle East. While I believe that this issue needs to be addressed, I’m not sure of the type of action Christians or the Church should take. If we try to respond with force to the persecutions, we will only enlarge the rift between Christianity and the people behind the persecutions. If we ignore the problem, the persecutions will continue and more people will die.…

the kingdom, the true holy brotherhood of the church, appears to be on the ‘endangered species list.’ Possibly through the many centuries; lust, power, money, greed, neglect or the combination of all, may have been the reason for their departure from God’s Truths. Substantially, to all outward appearances, the lack of integrity and sacredness of the brotherhood’s sexual relationship with God looks as if it may be fading away within the Catholic Church. The mystical teachings given through the…

The Mission is a movie about a Jesuit missionary and the colonial forces of Spain and Portugal. The Mission took place in South America in the eighteenth century. The Spanish and the Portuguese people were competing for the land that the indians were on while two missionaries were trying to convert the indians to Christianity. The movie was actually very historically accurate to what happened. The movie showed the war and what caused it in an very accurate way. In the beginning a missionary was…

Utopian texts are created to instigate introspective thought into the society in which the audience lives in. Thomas More wrote Utopia to satirize and to criticise the status quo of his era in 1555. . Written in a time of political, cultural and religious upheaval, it was a revolutionary text that challenged the accepted state of affairs. Through his work, entitled ‘Utopia’ More criticised political corruption, religious hypocrisy, distribution of wealth and the harsh penal code of the time. He…

early Christians through their house churches demonstrated to the world God’s plan for the salvation of the world. According to Filson (1939), “the house church was a vital factor in the church's development during the first century, and even in later generations.” (p. 112) Just like in the early house churches, the modern days persecuted church demonstrates a sense of community and…

religious law and after completing that program he went to the University of Padua, where he studied medicine. He, however, did not finish his medicine degree and left to Rome where he got a chair of mathematics. He then pursued a life time career in the Church but along with working…

These two examples of subcultures are excellent. The Catholic and Presbyterian Church do have many similarities with their primary focus on Christianity but differ greatly as to the path to achieve this life choice, many of which seem to contradict each other. Not having as much knowledge of the doctrine specific to the Presbyterian denomination as Protestants in general I am limited in my response options. It has been many years since I have seriously looked at the similarities and differences…

In every part of history, societies have developed remarkable technological innovations. During the Age of exploration, the magnetic compass and the printing press were created. Both these important technological innovations have had both positives and negatives effects on a society or on humanity. Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press, which was very successful. That being said, the magnetic compass had great success also. Johann Gutenberg’s sensational invention had an immense impact…

The Act in Restraint of Appeals in 1533 was the start of a political process that effectively transferred the power of the Catholic Church to the king, Henry VIII and his advisors and the government. The Act was passed by a Parliament and had listed its grievances against the Church as early as 1529. Rather than have a king foist the act on the people at a time when religion was a major factor in the lives of all people of the town, Thomas Cromwell came up with the idea of giving the act a…