Pope John Paul I

What would “Christianity” look like after the application of Kantian theory of Religion? This religion could not call itself “Christian” because they do not worship a Christ of Faith. Nor could they be called “Jesusists” because they are not following the teachings of Jesus the historical figure. What a Kantian “religion” would look like today is related closely to what we call the “New Age” faith. Although New Age best describes what Kant would accept as a pure religion, a Kantian religion…

knowledge and insight. Writing became a key way to communicate thoughts and opinions to others. Reading and writing affected the Protestant Reformation greatly because it allowed the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin to be able to gain insight on religious topics and express their opinions effectively. Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Christian humanist who lived from 1466-1536. He wrote in the Latin…

History is ripe with tales of traitors and treason, especially when one group is unhappy with another. Take, for example, John Brown’s three day raid on Harper’s Ferry in Virginia. Angry with the lack of progress in the abolition movement, Brown planned to take the military’s stockpiled arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia and use it to free slaves across the south (“John Brown’s”). Or maybe think about the more realistic 20 July Plot during World War II. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and some…

abortion; nobody turns his or her head. John Elefante tells the story of his daughters’ adoption and explores the subject of abortion in his emotional song “This Time.” In an interview, Elefante shares that he “can’t imagine life without [his] daughter, Sami, and it just breaks [his] heart that pregnant young women much like her birth mother, instead of choosing life for their babies, are denying them the chance to be born” (Elefante 1). “This Time,” by John Elefante,…

” This also reminds me of the movie Human Experience where they get to live and interact with homeless people. There was a scene where a man does not lose hope because he knows that God is there with them, and will be taken care of. As I was serving their food, I can also see the same hope within their eyes. A hope for a new beginning. A hope for a better…

How could it be that one cleric is permitted to marry and the other is not? Sipe argues, “Priesthood and celibacy have been so wedded…that even recent popes (John Paul II and Benedict XVI) claim that it is not within their power to abandon the requirement that clerics bind themselves with the vow of perfect and perpetual celibacy before they are ordained.” (549) There are numerous supporters of mandatory…

individual’s life. But perhaps even more profoundly is the realization that friendship is a necessary response to the dignity of all human life. Life is a sacred gift from the Creator and therefore God yearns for his people to recognize the gift of life. I believe that friendship is an answer to the reality of the sanctity of life. If one understands the dignity of a human person and moreover the reality that each individual is made in the image and likeness of God one must love another simply…

Genesis 1:4, 1:10, 1:12, 1:18, and 1:28, as well as, Matt. 19:21, Psalms 24:1, and I Cor. 12:21-26 are just a few of the many verses he cites throughout this chapter to support his argument. He also uses reason as a source by taking us step by step through his thesis and evidence for it. Finally, he uses tradition as a source. He does this by quoting material from St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and even Pope John Paul II. These past religious figures though spoken as well as written words…

away from attitudes of defensiveness and fear, indifference and marginalization – all typical of a throwaway culture – towards attitudes based on a culture of encounter, the only culture capable of building a better, more just and fraternal world." (Pope Francis, 2016 World Day of Migrants and…

Adam and Eve try to be like God in a way that is impossible,”knowing good and evil,” thereby placing themselves in a state of being contrary to God’s will for the natural order. This is the primordial disobedience understood as original sin. St. Pope John Paul II reaches a similar conclusion and expresses the symbolism of the tree flawlessly: ‘According to the Book of Genesis, "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" was to express and constantly remind man of the "limit" impassable for a…