Sacraments of the Catholic Church

Ora Pro Nobis is film directed by Lino Brocka and written by Jose F. Lacaba. The film was entered in the 42nd Cannes Film Festival. The story is a about a former priest willing to pursue social activism then reconsiders to join again in the resistance. The film was banned in the Philippines by Corazon Aquino because of its message against the government. Mariquina is a film directed by Milo Sogueco and written by Jerrold Tarog. Mariquina was film in Cinemalaya X in the New Breed Category. The…

Empire. During this era, most of the Europe were controlled by the Catholic Church resulting the Europe to undergo many changes in terms of politics, military, religion, and the social hierarchy. Europeans used Feudalism in maintaining social order to its citizen. Each status in this system determines each person’s class and power to the society. Feudalism is a system which the king have the highest authority next to the Church Official and the Nobles. The nobles have the authority to use the…

The American society has always been considered a melting pot, but now the times have changed, and the American society is switching more into a Salad Bowl. I grew up seeing society as a melting pot. In the town I grew up in it was mostly from a European Christian background, and I had the perspective that everyone was the same as us. In my teenage years I became friends with people from all over the world and I began to seeing society as the salad bowl. American society is part salad bowl, part…

team discovers the Church used different designations to say where the priests were who had been discovered abusing kids. Matt tells the team, I’ve been through a lot of these. ‘Sick leave’ isn’t the only designation they use when they take one of these priests out of circulation. They use a slew of terms—‘absent on leave’, ‘unassigned’, ‘emergency response’” to which Mike quips “They got a name for everything, these guys” and Sacha responds bluntly, “Except rape.” When the Church used…

pressing issues the Christian church faces today is with its vocations. The problem is the increasing lack of vocations to ministry and service to the church due to a number of pre-existing issues the church has been facing in recent years. These issues alone were already notable; however the evident decrease in vocations has quickly become a much larger issue for the church {footnote}. The reason as to why a decrease of vocations is a major problem for the church is (in my opinion) best…

The Protestant Reformation’s impact on Art The Protestant Reformation a response to the corruption and abuse of the Catholic Church had a great impact on art in the 1600s. This changed the political and religious makeup of Europe. Before the Reformation, the arts was closely supervised and sponsored by the Catholic Church or wealthy Monarchs. I will discuss the Reformation and its influence on artwork from Jacopo Tintoretto and Albrecht Durer, two artists from that time. The Protestant…

The dystopian novel, The handmaid’s tale, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, is based after the government calls off the constitutional and begin to build a ‘christian society’ that replaces the US, now called Gilead. The handmaid’s tale explores many different themes, one of which is surrounding the contrast of gender roles and why they are represented this way. Women and men have completely different titles they are chosen to have based on certain characteristics and backgrounds. Gilead…

Britain’s instability. In 1509 when Henry VIII became king no rebellions broke out as everyone was Catholic so there were no opposing views. However, religion became a main reason as to why rebellions broke out during 1536 to 1569 due to religion depended on what the monarch believed at that which lead to people constantly changing their beliefs as there was a prominent division between Protestants and Catholics during the Tudor period. Macculloch supports the belief that religion was the factor…

the time period of the majority of Kant’s work, the Enlightenment was rampantly spreading throughout Europe. The Enlightenment, a movement based on human reason and a shift away from the previous confines of Christianity, specifically by the Catholic Church which dominated the Dark Ages. Kant himself described that the Enlightenment “does not involve a human concept of a god, or of mysticism, or of spirituality, or of magic, or of a supernatural anything” (Kant, 17enlightenment something). This…

Folk humour and satire were the replies due to the domination of the Catholic church of 19th-century French Canadian culture. A light comedy that ridiculed local traditions was typical of 19th-century theatre in Quebec. By the early 20th century, the sardonic practice was well developed in English Canada as demonstrated in the writings of Stephen Leacock. In his work Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town which was published in 1912, made Leacock legendary for his satirical wit, he used tragic irony…