Pope

the Pope. It began when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the doors of the Catholic church and discontentment began to rise. This started the spark of the Protestant reformation where numerous branches of church doctrine developed from. People became more critical of the inner workings of the Catholic church and questioned their traditions. At the time Henry the VIII ruled and he fervently wanted to divorce his wife who could not bear him a son. The King despised Catholic church and Pope…

The fourteenth century in Europe was a time of calamity and disorder for the medieval system. At this time, the cultured High Middle Ages had come to an end and the “crisis of the fourteenth century” was beginning. This ‘crisis’ included the multitude of factors which greatly contributed to the dissolution of the medieval way of life. Originating around Italy, various types of embroilment made their way across Europe, leading to unrest and changes in thinking. The ultimate fall of medieval…

mandated in order to bring swift justice to the infidels. A guilty verdict would render fines, persecution, imprisonment, torture or even death. After hundreds of years of crusades, tribunals and killings, the world was still infected with heretics. Pope Gregory IX conjured up a…

Catholic Reformation The Reformation of the Catholic Church was a product of the Protestant Reformation which started with the Lutheran church’s separation from the Catholic Church in Germany. The separation of the Lutheran Church from the Catholic empire started a revolution across the empire. It started in the Country of Switzerland, with the reformed churches under the control of Ulrich Zwingli. Many wars broke out between the separated states of Switzerland, Zwingli was killed and the…

Christianity and the Reformation The 16th century was the age of the Reformation, it lead to the birth of several new religions and the reform of what was the old Catholic Church. Two of the most well known religious leaders of the time period were Henry VIII from France and Martin Luther from Germany. They became very similar in many ways, while still different in others. While Henry and Luther both used their political advantage and declined the church in their own ways, their motives were…

Gregory’s father Gordianus, was a senator, while occupying the title Regionarius in the Church, Gregory’s aunt Pateria and mother Silvia are recognized as saints in the Orthodox and Catholic Church. In addition, Gregory’s great-great-grandfather was Pope Felix III. In spite of Gregory having a bother, neither his brother’s name or his fate was recorded. Following in his father’s footsteps, at the age of 33, Gregory was a subject matter expert in…

wanted a song to succeed his throne. He wanted a divorce, but that was against the church’s teachings. When the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon who couldn’t have children anymore, he declared that only he should have the final authority in relation to the English Church. King Henry VIII put a stop to the church’s overpowered wealth and instead of only the pope having the Bible the Bible can now be in the hands of the…

Several issues were important in the life of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century that continue to impact today’s Church. Two of them were the Second Vatican Council as a whole and the scandal of sexual abuse by priests. However, I consider that the most significant event in this period of time was the whole new approach to Christian unity and interreligious dialogue by the Church in Vatican II. This new approach impacted the practice of the Catholic faith, continues to influence the…

The Pope 's "voice" as the clarification of celestial messages of God or, truth be told, the voice of God itself. Given the endorsement and asserted "endowments" of the Pope, the general population energetically sought after the campaigns. This is one of the best sins of the Roman Catholic Church all through history. In spite of the instability without bounds, for example, the sudden disappointments of the Crusades, the general population were driven by whatever the Pope directed. Indeed…

did just the opposite. Boys, girls, men and women each took on new roles in their social lives and political lives. New religious practices started to rise, and people adopted to never before seen practices. Before the Protestant Reformation, the Pope ruled in all of Western Christendom with a volume of power. Christendom, also known as the Christian Kingdom is the total of all the nations where…