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Dignity Of Celibacy And Marriage Most Catholics
2,491 wordsFundamentalist attacks on priestly celibacy come in a number of different forms-not all compatible with one another. There is almost no other subject about which so many different confusions exist. The first and most basic confusion is thinking of priestly celibacy as a dogma or doctrine-a central and irreformable part of the faith, believed by Catholics to come from Jesus and the apostles. Thus some Fundamentalists make a great deal of a biblical reference to Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1: 30),...
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One Jesus Twelve Apostles
1,107 wordsBefore I even begin to deconstruct Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, I think it is very appropriate to explain my perspective. I attended Catholic schooling for my first nine years of education. The school I attended taught the Catholic faith in a very conservative and orthodox manner. I still do practice the Catholic faith, but at the current time, I am very impressionable with it comes to my faith and beliefs. My first impression after reading The Da Vinci Code was that Brown is very blasphemous towa...
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Most Influential Books Of The Eighteenth Century
2,377 wordsThe radical change in European society from an almost completely religious civilization in the early sixteenth century into a basically secular civilization by the end of the eighteenth century was a very long process which did not directly begin in the early sixteenth century. The initial sign of sparks that would ignite the flame first appeared during the thirteenth century. While proven visibly that in the beginning of the thirteenth century the Catholic church played a dominant role in socie...
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Protestant Reformation And The Catholic Counter Reformation
795 wordsThe period immediately following the Protestant reformation and the Catholic counter reformation, was full of conflict and war. The entire continent of Europe and all of it's classes of society were affected by the destruction and flaring tempers of the period. In the Netherlands, the Protestants and the Catholics were at each others throats. In France it was the Guise family versus the Bourbons. In Bohemia, the religious and political structures caused total havoc for over thirty years; and in ...
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Corruption Within The Church The Catholic Church
1,209 wordsCorruption Within the Church The Catholic Church has long been a fixture in society. Throughout the ages, it has withstood wars and gone through many changes. It moved through a period of extreme popularity to a time when people regarded the Church with distrust and suspicion. The corrupt people within the church ruined the ideals Catholicism once stood for and the church lost much of its power. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer primarily satirizes the corruptness of the clergy members t...
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Father Latour His Mission
1,132 wordsDeath Comes for the ArchbishopByWilla Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather, 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of the Americ...
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U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops
827 wordsDALLAS (AP) - At an extraordinary meeting on the sex scandal that has shaken the Roman Catholic church, U.S. bishops took a step toward a zero-tolerance policy for pedophile priests after scrapping a proposal that would have kept some abusive clergy in the ministry. Bishops met in a closed-door session until late Thursday as they crafted a plan that Catholic leaders hope will end a crisis that has seen the dismissal or resignation of 250 accused priests since January. Four bishops have also step...
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Majority Vote
941 wordsIn the 16th century the Protestant Reformation divided the Roman Catholic Church. This reform was led by Martin Luther whose original intentions were to reform the church, but resulted in a split between Protestant and Catholic. Soon the Protestant Church itself divided resulting in two more churches, one Protestant, and the other reformed church. The Reformed Church is better known as Presbyterian, whose conspicuous leader was John Calvin. John Calvin had many beliefs which had been adopted by ...
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Just Womens Rights
2,306 wordsI chose to do my research report on Male Responses to Feminism. In which I read this book called Who Needs Feminism by Richard Holloway. Richard Holloway, distinguished churchmen, and male theologians in this book discusses the key aspects of feminism and how it affects the way they live, understand the world and the Christian faith today. I think feminism is based on the principle that women have innate worth, inalienable rights, and valuable ideas and talents to contribute to society. It is tr...
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Progression Of Rational Thinking And Ideas
647 wordsThe Change in Rational Thinking Before 1750 The idea of rational thinking has been debated ever since the beginning of human existence. As humans we base what we think on what we know, during the 1600's if a person was black than they must have been inferior. This thinking seemed "rational" to the people of this period because they didn't know any better. The concept of rationality throughout time has always been a matter of perspective. If you are taught from birth that black people are inferio...
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Teachings Of The Catholic Church
1,185 wordsA paradigm is one's world view in which one understands his place in it. Copernicus, Galileo, Vesalius, Linnea us, Luewenhoek, and Newton were all medieval scientists, whose work changed people's lives and the world. The way man viewed the universe in which he lived, the world of nature that surrounded him, and even his own physical anatomy changed right before him. Scientists, like Galileo, disproved the heliocentric model as new instruments like the telescope were invented. The way in which ma...
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Morality Of Artificial Birth Control
829 wordsOn June 28, 1966, the Papal Commission on Birth Control submitted a report to the Vatican after they had prayed together, listened to presentations from experts, reviewed surveys taken from over 3,000 dedicated Catholic couples from 18 countries, and argued among themselves about numerous matters pertaining to human sexuality. This report stated that the Church's teaching on the intrinsic evil of artificial contraception was in a state of doubt. It also recommended that the procreative aspect of...
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Kreon's Tragic Downfall
956 words"Think: all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and he repairs the evil: the only crime is pride". Such was the admonition of the wise prophet Tiresias in Sophocles' Antigone. In literature as in life, men often stubbornly hold on to their precious pride and reek havoc on those who least deserve it. Unfortunately, men rescind their mistakes too late. Their hubris does not make them evil, but it is dubious whether they can be considered good, honorable men....
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Simony And The Selling Of Indulgences
1,191 wordsDecades past and present have been plagued by corruption all the way from the time of Moses to the Nixon presidency. Out of all the corruption that has occurred it seems that one of the most fraudulent is that of the Catholic Church. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries the dominating factor that motivated thousands of Catholic clergy, from the lowest friars to the pope, was money. It started out with the occasional small sin but escalated until it was out of control. Bishops were...
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Churches Views On Birth Control
1,503 wordsThe Catholic Church is the world's largest, and oldest, Christian religion. The churches over 860 million members count for almost one-fifth of the of the Earths population. Such a large religion is open to be interpreted in many ways, to avoid having the Churches views distorted they have the Catechism. The Catechism is the place to go for information about Catholic belief. This book attempts to explain a Catholics Questions like Why is the Catholic Church opposed to birth control Where in the ...
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Result Of Vatican 2 Catholicism
2,366 wordsPicture this if you will. In the beginning (being 1945) god created a shepherd (the Catholic Church) in which we the sheep followed blindly. Everywhere the shepherd took us, we would follow without complaint. A sheep dared not question the Shepherd or stray from the flock in fear of being labeled a bad sheep (catholic) and suffering the consequences of eternal damnation. But as time went on and the sheep modernized, however the shepherd was stubborn and conservative in his ways and refused to ch...
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Pope Pius XII As World War II
4,251 wordsGregory Luther History Thesis 10/15/01 "Triumph in battle offers twin trophies to the victors. Their writers can impose on history their version of the war they won, while their statesmen can impose the terms of peace". -- Winston Churchill "The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second is not to fear to speak the truth". -- Pope Leo X "We should not forget that in the long run the Pope in Rome is a greater enemy of National Socialism than Churchill or Roosevelt". -- Rei...
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Luther's Writings Of 1520
990 wordsBetween 1517 and 1521, Martin Luther was driven further and further away from reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1521, the climactic Diet of Worms revealed Luther's now extreme views with which he totally rejected the Catholic Church and its doctrine and refused to recant his teachings. But how and why did Luther adopt these views? It can be said with some certainty that Luther's Catholic opponents contributed to his adoption of these extreme views. Luther's first opponent, John T...
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Known After Chopin Poland
1,143 wordsPoland is located in Central Europe, to the east of Germany. It is slightly smaller than New Mexico. Poland is named after the Slavic tribe, Polane. The word polane in Slavic means field or plane. This describes Poland's terrain. Most of Poland is covered with small planes and gently rolling hills. Towards the south Poland is covered in mountains. Historically, Poland was an area of conflict because of its flat terrain and the lack of natural barriers on the North European Plain Polish is the of...
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Example Of Dante's Expression Of Love
1,128 wordsAnalysis Of Plato's Purgatorio Analysis Of Plato's Purgatorio Essay, Research Paper Dante Alighieri reveals his theology, beliefs, and ideals in his work Divine Comedy. Specifically, in Purgatorio, Dante expresses his view of the importance of love, a view that is not completely homogenous with Catholic doctrine. That view is that through divine grace, all Christians can acquire eternal happiness and immortal love from God regardless of how wicked they lived life, as long as they are repentant. ...
