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Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

Sacrament of Confirmation

us more deeply" in divine association.4 Writer Christina Zaker points out that the references in the Catechism to spiritual matur...

Augustine’s Confessions

grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...

Christian Theology, Family, and Marriage

covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

New France and British Conquest

and its failure to promote education for all Canadians, male and female. In the seventeenth century, the first French colonists t...

Deacon's Role as Prophet

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Spanish Conquest

In eleven pages this paper discusses the role the Catholic Church played in the Spanish Conquest of this period. Six sources are ...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

Roman Catholic Teachings and Suicide

in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable" (The Vatican n.d.). Father Sau...

Was Martin Luther a Revolutionary or Reformer?

but others merely put forward objections for discussion. Copies of Luthers document spread throughout Europe during 1518 and 151...

Roman Catholic Church and Process of Canonization

in a huge portfolio (Lim and Lau, n.d). The inquiring process is next and there are three kinds of inquiry processes: 1. Informa...

The Roman Catholic Church and The Future of Priesthood

and Asia (Catholic News Web, 2003). The number in Europe has increased slightly (Catholic News Web, 2003). This does not eliminate...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

abusers" (Jenkins 133). This use of language paints Church officials as innocent victims of social change, rather than being knowi...

Mediator Dei

by an official of the Church and attended by faithful members of the church. Although the Popes encyclical clarified the sacred ...

Galileo and Why He Should Have Been Excommunicated

all involvement with Copernicanism and to stop teaching and talking about this approach (ChristianAnswers.net). The fact that he d...

The Eventual Decline of Latin as a Spoken Language

hardly "empty"; in the classical sense it is extremely structured. "Inventio," which can be translated as "invention" or discover...

Democracy of Lithuania and the Church's Role

the "mechanical" society grows out of social cohesion, which derives from similarities between individuals in a social group, and ...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

Roman Catholic Church and Gay Marriage

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Buddhism History Examined

of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...

Preparation for Baptism and Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church

like the sacraments, but ex opere operantis, through the faith and devotion of those using them" (Piggin, 2005). The Sacraments o...

Roman Catholic Ordination of Women

In seen pages this paper examines the ordination of women as priests by the Roman Catholic church in an overview of diverse and op...

Middle Ages and How Artistic Creativity was Influenced by Christianity

In seven pages this paper discusses how during the Middle Ages the creativity of artists was strongly influenced by the Catholic C...

Roman Catholic Annulment and Divorce

"nothing"?that it never actually existed (Crowe 13). The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that if consent between the two p...

Christian Church and Generation X

In twenty five pages this paper examines how the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have been affected by the 40 million Gener...

Reformation Christian Witch Hunts and Women

already disintegrating old faith. Growing social unrest during that particular era had found expression in witchcraft as well as i...