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Holy Water Blessing by the Roman Catholic Church

In five pages this paper examines whether the blessing of holy water by the Roman Catholic Church should be regarded as magical or...

Work in France of Roman Catholic Dominican Priest Yves Congar

Fr. Yves Congar and the impact of his France work upon the Roman Catholic church past and present are discussed in nine pages. Si...

Abortion Issue

In five pages this paper examines the abortion issue from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church principles. Seven sources ...

Print Media and Its Coverage of Pedophilia and Catholicism

pedophile activity by priests, about keeping secrets in the hierarchy. Then the hierarchy made a mistake by trying to spin the ped...

Catholic Church Corruption and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...

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...

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 ...

3 Issues Pertaining to Latin American Society

In six pages this research paper discusses women's roles in Latin America and the economic effects, the Catholic Church throughout...

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...

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...

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 ...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

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 ...

Jesus as Exorcist

"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

History and Introduction of the Early Catholic Church

Pauline Christianity, which was developing at that time. Eusebius of Caesarea--Eusebius (263-339) studied under Pamphilius, a Ch...

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 ...

Theology and Philosophy in the Church

Aquinas. There is a lack of unity in terms of theology. Aquinas attempted to solve this very problem during his time. Aquinass wor...

Criteria for Christian Salvation

with subsidiary; people are expected to have the opportunity to participate in civil, economic, political and social life (Libreri...

Religion and its Influence on the Law

Catholic canon law, after all, has a long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartm...

Social Justice, Wealth Inequality/A Catholic Perspective

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...

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...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM 2000 BCE TO 1500 CE

This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...