Roman Catholic calendar of saints

because of family. When reading My Islam by Amir Nasr, I felt a connection with him and I do believe that the process of a love affair can be a cycle for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. My grandmother was very religious and she taught me how to be Catholic. I would go to church three days a week, I was part of the chorus, and I took catechesis classes so I could do my first communion. Catholicism was part of my life and I actually enjoyed it. Especially because it was something that made my…

Around 1310, Roman de Fauvel, attributed to Gervais de Bus, began circulating through Europe. This extended medieval poem split into two books is full of symbolism and mockery of higher institutions and the government. This story includes a visual satire that is accompanied by beautiful, carefully chosen, polyphonic music. Roman de Fauvel is basically a symbol of everything wrong with France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The two books can be described as underlyingly…

Schism between sects of the Catholic Church. The Great Schism of 1054, between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, was caused by the everlasting differences of religious beliefs and political views between the eastern and western churches. The challenge to the absolute authority of the pope to make decisions concerning all of the Christian people and Christian doctrine, and the different views concerning the Filioque. The schism between the Roman Catholics and the Orthodox…

The baroque style was established in the seventeenth century in order for the catholic church to win back the citizens who were being converted to the protestant reformation. Therefore, the church turned their artistic expression into a more extravagant, grandiose style. Viewers were now being emotionally drawn to the sensual attitudes of the churches. The style of this period would then be called Baroque. Which is the term that’s name was taken from the Portuguese barroco, which is a deformed…

Fr. Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and U.S. Chaplain in the Korean War said “when I was ordained, I was determined to ‘spend myself ’ for God. I was determined to do that cheerfully, no matter in what circumstances I would be placed or how hard a life I would be asked to lead.” Fr. Kapaun, through his words, demonstrates his understanding of how difficult the role of Chaplain would be in the coming decades of war. The 20th century brought about the deadliest military conflict ever known to man.…

claims that a Roman Catholic, under the condition that they engage in a conversation with the teaching of the Church, may disagree with Church teaching without being a faithful Catholic and make a political choice based on this position of disagreement. Essentially, a Catholic who undermines the teaching of his faith can still be a good Catholic. This is inherently wrong, although Perry’s point that one should attempt to arrive at one’s own moral position with the help of the Roman Catholic…

Who are you? Leaders This ride is a waterslide that has four levels, each level represents a leader in the Catholic Church. The two levels on the top represent the Pope and archbishops, in the Catholic Church they held the most power and were noticed in society and in the church the most, but had less responsibility except for running and looking over the church. The lower levels represent the bishops and priests, they held the most responsibility in running the church but didn’t hold as much…

the great minds of countless ages: Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. My admiration of some of these men's skills, particularly my enjoyment of fine literature, was in many ways my first taste of the liberal arts. Due to a strong Catholic upbringing, I enjoyed my theology classes, and came to more of the arts through history and philosophy, as well as literature, which remained consistently my favorite school subject throughout high school. Although other liberal arts disciplines…

In the 1500 the Roman Catholic Church was super powerful in western Europe. The Catholic Church guarded its position and anybody who was deemed to have gone against the Catholic Church was labelled a heretic and burnt at the stake. The Catholic Church did not tolerate any unusual behavior from anyone if they were to “go soft” might have been a sign of weakness. The catholic church's power had been built up over many centuries and relied on ignorance and superstition on people from other lands…

When the author pointed out the differences about how the Catholic church and Protestants receives theology was incredible. I thought it was unique to show the differences between the way each theologian thinks. As a catholic, I can relate to having a theological background using a very traditional viewpoint and inspirations. Our tradition is kept and guaranteed through each one of our popes. Many Protestants excludes our cannons because they were not recognized as scriptures by the Jewish…