Sacraments of the Catholic Church

prevailing dominance of the Catholic Church in the Western hemisphere. For centuries before, the Papacy dominated nearly every aspect of life, politics and even economics throughout Western Europe for all social classes. The Reformation was a religious movement, but not strictly. The desire for a deeper spirituality with God was just one of the reasons for this revolutionary time period. The masses desired to exercise economic, religious and social freedoms from the Catholic Church, and many…

Ignited at the start of the 16th century by the nailing of a candid list on the door of a small German church, the Protestant Reformation introduced the Catholic Church to new thoughts and practices that left European Christians in a state of disbelief. After many disaccording new sects cut ties with the Church, scholars and rulers had a hard time to accept the new concept being introduced to them- religious toleration. While many accepted religious toleration many regions didn’t embrace it for…

ideas in the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther was motivated by his own, unique convictions to reject the teachings of the medieval Roman Catholic Church and would challenge…

to the Catholic religion when he was still a priest, and his ultimate leaving of no longer being a clergy. All of the implication that Massicotte being the False Father character are in some way related to the castration anxiety about both his own patriarchal identity and the decline of the religion during the 20 years after Duplessis Era. In order to better understanding the change through the ideal Father to the False Father as well as the changing of the status of Roman Catholic Church, we…

The liturgy is an ancient form of religious celebration of the mystery surrounding Christ (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 2005). The celebration with obvious religious connotations does not possess a name with such religious-bound roots. The term liturgy is derived from the ancient Greek word 'letourgia', meaning public work (Senn, 2012). The practise of communal celebration is one which occurs throughout the religions. Despite superficial similarities between the practises, each faith…

The Catholics mobilised their forces to strike back. Profane authorities in the Catholic areas took over many of the rolls of the bishops in such matters as judge and finance. In some cases even the nomination of priests. Following the examples of the Reformers, the Catholics also built schools. The schools were run by the Jesuits (a member of the Society of Jesus). Cardinal Carlo Borromeo had made a great contribution to the Catholic renewal. He set up the collegium…

characteristics of the influential popes like Leo and Gregory brought the most positive good to the life of the church? There were some movements that would fatally wound the Christendom begun by the crowning of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III on Dec. 25, 800. First, a new comprehensive empire to replace the one destroyed by the drift of East-West disengagement and the armies of Islam. The institutional church with the pope at its head would exert immense theoretical importance. Second, vigorous…

I visited Lutheran Church in East Brunswick, NJ and observed the prayer service which was a great learning experience for me and an enjoyable one, too. Since I had attended prayer service at my middle school church as well as Oratory Prep school church, I had some understanding about Catholic service and I was able to compare and contrast the Catholic and Lutheran service.The Lutheran church did not have depictions of Saints or Mary in the Church. Otherwise, the service itself was fairly similar…

Introduction Over the past thousand years, many have been fed with false doctrine that women should not be ordained as priests, this essay will simply discuss the reasons behind ordination of women the truth of the story is that it is still unveiled even today, but does it ends there? .However relatively recently, people were exposed to the utmost truth about what did Jesus say about priesthood. As many know that little has been highlighted on this issue. What about religious believers? They…

Throughout the history of the United States, several Popes have visited. Out of all these visits, Pope Francis' was the most like Pope John II's visit. While they were in America they did many of the same things. For example, both Popes went to New York and Washington, D.C. Although both papal visits to the U.S. were similar, they were a bit different from one another. When Pope John Paul II came to the United States he went to Alaska, Boston, Chicago, and Miami. In contrast, Pope Francis only…