Roman Curia

his heavenly orations brought peace wherever he went. Before he spoke the word of God to those gathered around him, he first prayed for peace: “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” (Romans 16:20, RSV) He then preached repentance and the "Good News" based on the Gospels: Luke 24:44-49 (RSV) Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of…

The Catholic community in Vietnam is a part of the Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Roman Curia. Vietnam is a country with the proportion of Catholics ranked fifth in Asia. The Catholicism has been spread into Vietnam since the sixteenth century preaching from European missionaries. In the first half of…

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church is the most well-known religious leader in the world today. The office of the Pope was instituted early in the history of the Church. The Papacy was established much later. The leader of the church in Rome was a Bishop as was customary in the early church. In its origin the office of the Pope was not unlike any other office in church leadership, the term was not used exclusively at the church in Rome nor did it convey any special authority not available to…

After the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 5th century, the eastern Byzantine Empire flourished while the western regions disintegrated into fragmented kingdoms without any unifying authority. Europe was in the midst of its Dark Ages when Charlemagne was born in 742 AD. This time was marked by frequent warfare; therefore there were few cultural achievements during this time. Charlemagne became ruler of one kingdom in Germany in 768 AD, immediately setting out to expand his territory. Through…

Explain the negative effects of the Roman Conquest Introduction The Roman conquest was the results of their selfish, ambitious, and avaricious, and who lacked the genuine taste and generous spirit which belong to the highest type of human culture (Morey, 1901). Although Rome had expanded their territories as the results of their conquest the negative effects led to the beginning of fall of the Roman Republic. Externally, Rome was viewed as the supreme power of the world. On the contrary,…

government or emperor holds sufficient authority to control politics, military, religions and so forth. And a variety of rules built the direct centralized authority to concentrate the power, such as the Qin Dynasty and the Umayyad Empire. As for the Roman Empire, Augustus used a lot of indirect methods to satisfy people’s needs and his power at the same time. The main difference between them is that Augusts hid his desire of absolute power under the outward republicanism. People may not find…

The Roman Empire, during its peak, made revolutionary contributions to social, political and cultural customs of the world. Romans were known for their adaptation of other cultures, especially Greek culture, and enhancing them to create a modern society. These enhancements are present in architectural advancements of the Romans, specifically their recreation of Greek baths. Roman baths, and their changes over time, reflect the revolutionary methods of Roman construction, societal structure and…

sack of Rome by the Visigoths signified the fall of the Roman Empire, and the beginning of the dark ages. The dark ages represented a time of hardship, suffering, and warfare. Many individuals blamed the Christian church for the fall of Rome and the grief that followed thereafter. On the contrary, medieval philosopher and church scholar St. Augustine of Hippo defended the Christian faith in his book “The City of God.” In the novel he says the Roman Empire fell because it was not founded on the…

opinions and of communicating with people at a distance in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Many valuable insights can be detected from medieval letters about the practice of legal history, most of which appears to be based on how law has exceeded Roman and canon law and developed on the kind of assumptions about what is right or wrong. Susan Reynold’s argument that before 1100 law has traditionally been seen as based on ordeals and judgement of God is reflected in most of the letters…

Pompey was to retain his own. Caesar knew that if he did not do something bold he would be killed and Rome would collapse, so on a cold January night in 49 B.C.E he crossed the Rubicon and plunged the Republic into a brutal civil war. Unlike a typical Roman Caesar ordered his soldiers not to pillage captured cities. He released many captured soldiers. Out of fear his former friend turned rival, Pompey fled Rome along with the magistrates and consuls hastily out of…