Pope John Paul II

Also during this period, the artworks reached the top, finishing, exemplary and unique style. Artworks were influenced by philosophical ideas of the cosmology, humanism, and religion. In particular, under the support of the popes, the Church's Art was very developed. Architectural works with the layout of the religious paintings reached a creative peak. Together with the artists of the time, Fra Angelico, a Dominican monk, a master of painting, made great contributions to Catholic…

methods were often unfair and could be considered “over kill” to the crimes the defendant had committed. (How the Spanish Inquisition Worked, by Shanna Freeman) The goals of the Spanish inquisition were to counter the heresy in Spain. In the year 1478 Pope Sixtus IV issued a law that allowed all Catholic Monarchs to name inquisitors…

is immeasurable and Argos’ death was inevitable. In the painting “Argos Recognizes Odysseus” by Theodoor van Thulden and the poem Argos by Alexander Pope, they both use greek myths to portray that leaving something so precious and young the effects of the world leave life long scars that never fade, only deepen. In the poem “Argos” by Alexander Pope, the author uses the main character of the poem, Argos, from an original story called “The Odyssey.” In the story The Odyssey, Odysseus, the main…

2.3 Suffering in the New Testament Suffering in the New Testament has a positive connotation because its complete meaning comes from the suffering and death of Christ on the Cross. Jesus talks not only about suffering theoretically but through His endurance, completes the meaning of it. When Jesus talks about suffering and evil, it does not have origin from the Father, rather it is introduced by the enemy of this world who is Satan. “While everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds…

My first boss was the nastiest woman I’ve ever met. Back in 2012, after months of searching for a first job in the aftermath of the Great Recession, I finally landed a stock position at an off-price retail store. Besides the hard work and early morning hours, my biggest memory of my 18-month employment there was how incredibly rude, nasty, combative and just downright mean the store manager was. True, she was accomplishing great things: she kept the store spick and span despite being in one of…

Author Mario Puzo’s 1969 crime novel, The Godfather, depicts the life of The Corleone family, an Italian-American, organized crime syndicate or mafia, in their endeavors to rise to power in New York by any means necessary. The family has both good and bad traits and the purpose of this essay is to identify those traits and provide examples on how those traits correspond to Christian Ethics. Firstly, Puzo’s New York Time Bestseller turned into a movie adaptation less than three years after its…

Crawford, Ruth Draper, Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower, Princess Elizabeth, Robert Frost, Indira Gandhi, Ernest Hemingway, Audrey Hepburn, Pope John Paul II, Carl Jung, Helen Keller and Polly Thompson, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, The Marx Brothers, Pandit Nehru, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Pope Pius XII, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Paul Robeson, the rock band Rush, George Bernard Shaw, Jean Sibelius,…

Life begins with the moment of conception and ends with death. From the moment of conception every human life matters, but abortion says differently. When a mother is contemplating on having an abortion she is not considering the type of life that her child could have. Abortion is considered the “death penalty” for an innocent child simply because the parents were not ready for a child or the parents did not want a baby. The main people who are affected in this matter are the parents of the…

ecclesiologists like Yves Congar and Avery Dulles writes that the holy spirit is living with and within the people. As part of the reform they need to adapt and integrate the voice of the people for it cannot be done by one single person, the sovereign pope or a certain number of…

Mark Twain once said “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” Mark Twain was just one of many famous people to talk about freedom, but what exactly is freedom? The dictionary defines freedom as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Now that we know what it means, lets talk about some of my…