Sacraments of the Catholic Church

reinforced important developments in medieval spirituality. The Poverello (“Poor Little Man”) is one of the most esteemed religious figures in Romanis Catholic history, and he and Catherine of Siena are the patron saints of Italy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II identdified him as the patron saint of ecology. Francis preached the teaching of the Catholic Church, that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers need redemption because of the pri-mordial sin of man. He preached to all…

God and Humanity Paper Thomas Aquinas and Karl Rahner are two major Christian thinkers that have helped shape Christian thought into what it is today. Thomas Aquinas, also known as St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), was a Dominican friar and a Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. At the age of five he was sent to a Benedictine monastery, and later on decided to leave but wanted to remain religious so he joined the Dominicans…

Thomas Aquinas wrote for this feast was Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem. This hymn is divided into two parts, one part which refers to the Old Testament and one part which refers to the New Testament. This hymn is still used today and expresses what we as Catholics believe regarding transubstantiation. Starting in the fourth stanza of Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem, Aquinas treats the relation of the new law and ritual to the old. He uses two different words for “Passover,” the Hebrew word to refer to the…

The church and the crown were the institutions that allowed the complete assimilation of the natives of Mexico. The crown allowed the Constiquadores to do the dirty work. After the crown sends it people to administrate it. Finally it sent the church to use its spiritual power to convinces the natives to assimilate. The church had two arms of the clergy. The regular clergy was the spiritual and missionary, advocated and defended the natives. The secular clergy was the material, organization, and…

to the Catholic Church (Spielvogel, 281). He was gravely wounded while serving in the Spanish military fighting against the French. While slowly recuperating, Ignatius of Loyola experienced a conversion and consequently established the Jesuit order, also known as the military enforcement arm of the Catholic Church. It played an important role in the counter reformation and succeeded in converting millions around the world to Catholicism,…

The Pilgrims were also known as Protestant Separatists, in that while some Protestants believed that the Roman Catholic Church could be reformed, the Separatists believed nothing short of a complete break from Rome would accomplish their objectives. Most Protestant factions, deemed the English Reformation only partially victorious in meeting these two goals. The English…

John Paul II Pope St. John Paul II was argueable one of the greatest Pope’s that the Catholic faith has ever had. Born with the Polish name of Karol Wojtyla, he was Pope from 1978 to 2005. His induction at a younger age allowed for him to travel more than many Popes normally. These travels allowed him to impact other countries such as Poland…

themselves and not have to rely on the priests translations of it. The people finally had a new outlook on God and his gospel without the church and the people in the church telling them what to think. There was also Luthers impact on the religion aspect of things. He expanded…

Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Southern Baptism was introduced in 1830 when there was tension in the Baptist church and it split into two branches: northern and southern. The major disagreement focused on slavery. There was a group of Baptist that were against slavery . In May of 1845 a group of Baptists separated and organized the Southern Baptist Convention. Moving forward…

Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic Church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, theories of worship, and the use of God's law for believers, among other things. Calvinism can be a misleading term because the religious tradition it denotes is and has always been diverse, with a wide…