Papal infallibility

My choice for my second paper was the ecclesiology of Vatican II and the book you assigned me was Rediscovering Vatican II: The Church in the Making by Richard R. Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two…

deposition of European rulers, ability to annul any agreement or law, and the general status of infallibility for any decrees by the Pope. So naturally, the church required methods of demonstrating such authorities to reduce possible challenges to its authority. Notably, religious minorities such as followers of heresies or Jews were a far easier group to crack down than say, a European monarch who challenged Papal authority. This would become especially so after events in Medieval Europe that…

During 1400’s - 1500’s Catholic Church distorted the minds of people by suggesting that people can purchase sinfree cards, indulgences for the living and the dead: the idea of purgatory influenced mankind to secure a resting place in heaven. The papal dominion created delusion by mentioning that whoever follows the commandments of popes will be saved from hell - seducing the people with misconception that goodness and salvation lies on their behavior, whether or not they obey the pope. Martin…

DeAnn Grove 1) Compare and contrast the three major sects of Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy); include comments regarding when and how they originated and differences in belief, dogma, and practices. Christianity was officially recognized as a religion in 380 BCE, and was “one” religion until 1054 CE when the Great Schism occurred, thus separating Christianity into the Eastern and Western Orthodox sects. After 463 years, in 1517 CE, Martin Luther…