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Unlike Tartuffe, which he symbolizes religious hypocrisy as one person. Voltaire thinks that the clergy of the Catholic Church and the Jesuits are hypocritical. The clergy is usually a group of religious people that are in charge and have control of the people who follower them. For example, Pangloss gets hanged because he considers a way that is different from Catholic ideals. In Catholic religion they preach the importance of compassion. Voltaire shows a double standard in which they punish…

Elizabeth during her reign successfully created a religious settlement which restored many of the divisions created by her predecessors. However in order to do so, she had to accept both Catholic and Protestant aspects of religion alike, which created tensions and angered those who were fully committed to their religion; this even led some to oppose the new church in attempts to change it so it was more suited to their religious views, thus acted as a barrier the church had to overcome in order…

The papacy is the office held by the pope as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. This office spans since the time of Peter to the present modern world. In the days of the early church, bishops in Rome did not enjoy any temporal power. This was the case till the time of Constantine. Following the fall of Rome, the papacy was shaped by temporal leaders that ruled the neighboring Italian Peninsula. With time, the papacy solidified its territorial areas to a part of Peninsula. The bishop of…

like the Bill of Rights gave most citizens at the time more individual rights, Catholics were heavily excluded. In fact, the Toleration Act of 1689 gave the freedom to worship to all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics. Unfortunately, Alexander Pope…

Catholic Rosaries are the Beauty of Mother Mary Catholic rosaries are the sacred and beautiful accessories that Catholics have. People spend money on several things, which serve a particular and temporary purpose. These things get fade away, break down, or die after somtime. Therefore, it is better to invest in a gift that can benefit you, and lasts eternally. Prayer is the most valuable investment that anyone can have and Catholic rosaries can be used to count the number of prayers. Catholic…

When Pope Paul V made the decision of placing Venice under interdict in 1606, the Catholic Church’s slow but steady decline since the end of the Middle Ages became more rapid and apparent to both the secular leaders and common people of Europe. Paul V was initially concerned about laws that restricted the clergy’s right to acquire land (de Vivo 157), and tensions reached a breaking point when a cardinal and bishop were jailed for violating these laws (“Paul V”). The doge and Senate of Venice…

is Swedish, Polish, and was born in Illinois. My Father is Irish, English, and Luxembourg he was also born in Illinois. As a child, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents and my mother. My grandmother was very religious; Thus, I was raised Catholic. she has become…

Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the middle ages is the story of The Hanged Man by Robert Bartlett. There are not many people that can escape death in general; especially when they are hanged. Robert Bartlett’s The Hanged Man is a story of a Welshman that was hanged, but was still alive. There was a inquiry that was held to see if there was a intercession from a saint named Thomas De Cantilupe whom was the bishop of Hereford who was also hanged, but survived. Bartlett’s background as a…

God’s choice to create woman just like He created man. There is no mistake that God made in making women. Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical known as The Gospel of Life. The encyclical was a way for Pope John Paul II to express the position of the Catholic Church on the values and inviolabilities of human life itself. The pope addresses various concepts of Feminine Genius and its progression in our society. God’s role in making women was to make them unique and essential into building a…

As I watched the film Luther, I realized that the film displayed a historically accurate representation of Martin Luther and the Reformation of the Catholic Church. The first scene of the movie opened upon the church with an archway at the end of the nave lined with Corinthian columns. Also at the end of the nave was an altar and apse, typically scene in many church layouts of the time period, not to mention the church had stained glass rose windows and statues of several saints with in the…