Pope Pius XI

The Middle Ages were a time of chaos and inequality. Royalty was an outstanding aspect of the culture, religion played a large role during this time, and women were not treated fairly compared to men in society. Thomas a’ Becket was a man in Canterbury, who was in the eye of King Henry II. Initially this was a good thing because Henry admired Becket so much that he made him Chancellor after seeing him achieve different missions for Theobald, the current archbishop. As Becket’s and Henry’s…

church can give salvation. Luther included this in his thesis to describe how God has the true power within the Church, not the pope or clergymen. Before the Reformation period and the Black Death, many people blindly followed the church. After seeing the cruelty of death and splitting of Christianity and Roman Catholics, people began to turn against the church. The pope was the most powerful at the time when many people thought he was essentially a God walking on here and respected him like a…

they were to be separated from society because they were disease whether of the soul or of the body (Moore 10). Efforts such as this were not entirely with in the Church. For example, the first Europe wide effort against heretics was co-created by Pope Lucius III and emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the bull ad abolendam (Moore 8). This is essential considering the Church could not deliver the death penalty but the secular system…

throughout his reign the champion of Christianity. He never rested until the Saxons were not only subjected, but baptized, if not Christianized; his war against the Lombards, whose kingdom he finally annexed, was originally commenced at the instance of the pope, whose power was menaced by the roads of the se barbarians. It cannot be denied, however, that…

reputation as the leading school of theological and philosophical studies, and Wycliffe stood out for his intellect and reasoning. Much of Wycliffe’s adult life was influenced by the Avignon papacy controversy; which began in 1309 when the French Pope Clement V chose the city of Avignon for the seat of the papacy instead of Rome. It remained in France under…

After many continuous years of warfare the thirty years wars has resulted in many countries invading into the Holy Roman Empire. The Thirty Years War was the product of protestant rebellion after I tried to stop their religious activities. This war involved Sweden, France, Spain and Austria including other major powers in Europe, this war was mostly waged on German soil, the war needed with the Peace of Westphalia. Since this war has blurred the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire we must reset…

The Differences of the church of England and Lutheran beginnings The church of England started out by the king wanting to get a divorce. The pope didn’t let King Henry VIII get a divorce so King Henry VIII decided to build his own church and spread apart from the catholic church. The church he built was called the church of England. Once King Henry VIII built the church he got divorced from Catherine of Aragon and got a new wife. This had happened several times except five of the six wives died…

church maintained that the holy ghost only comes from the father. Moreover, the formation of church administration really divided the east and the west. Eastern Orthodoxy doesn’t recognize the hierarchy of church administration nor do they honor the pope (the papacy). Protestantism doesn’t recognize the papacy either. In the days of Martin Luther, the papacy promoted that closeness to god came through the purchase of “indulgences”. Protestantism believes that closeness with god comes from the…

devout catholic, who was in a sense, the protector of Rome’s religious power. The examples given in the lesson best show how he would come to the aid of the church as well as attempt to remove threats to the pope like the various battles against in the muslims. Because of this devout to the pope, Leo the Third crowned him the emperor. Which, of course established the church as the sole power able to do this, and also gave Charlemagne a prestigious title as well job of protecting Rome.…

The Romanian Orthodox In 1054, there was a schism/split between the Roman church (Carnine 62). This was caused by the different beliefs between the popes in the church such as icons (Carnine 62). Icons are a part of new innovations over time because they are still used today to represent words or expressions such as the apple on iphones. This represents the company and the product. “In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern…