...The Roman Catholic Religion * HUM/130 March 17, 2011 * The Roman Catholic Religion As a child, I remember going to Mass every Sunday like clockwork. For the first nine years of my life we followed the Catholic religion, at least that was the way it seemed to me. Seeing my parents standing in line and waiting to receive the body and blood of Christ, listening to the sermon and signing my brothers and I up for communion classes, doing all the things Catholics do in order to make sure they stay within the track the lord wants us on. Sometime around my tenth birth we made the change as a family to become protestant, and until today we are Protestants. In recent years, I asked my mother why we made the change from one religion to another and she told me the reason why was that at some point her and my father stopped believing in some of the rituals that the Catholic Church practice. I agreed with her and with all the reasons she and my father had and why they decided to make the switch, but today I honestly don’t believe on the traditions and rituals that Catholics observe but I find they are interesting and very intriguing. However, while the Catholic doctrine and traditions are very structured, why are there so many inconsistencies? And why is the Roman Catholic Church often in the news? I visited the local Roman Catholic Church in Tracy, California; St. Bernard’s Catholic Church. It is a beautiful facility, from the outside; the building looks like an old Spaniard...
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...In Latin America it is becoming a problematic issue of the fading popularity and influence of the Catholic church in civilization. Latin America is inhabited by more than 450 million Catholics. (Religion in Latin America, 2014). Today many are leaving the catholic church and converting into protestants. According to the Global Catholic Population that is nearly 40% of the world’s catholic population. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian citizen now distinguished as Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first ever Latin American pope to hold this significant title, however the catholic religion is persistently diminishing at a rapid rate in all Latin countries. Catholicism is practiced in eighteen Latin American countries including...
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...I was raised a Catholic. As a Catholic we go to church on Sunday. Our church is a bit more conservative than Christian churches. We go there and sit in the pews waiting for the priest and the altar servers to make their entrance. It is usually quiet before church starts although one knows the atmosphere of the church. Not only does one smell the incense but one sees the all the stain glass windows littered with images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, angles, and other biblical characters. One thing I’ve found out about Catholic churches is that they always have the images or sculptures of the fourteen Stations of the Cross. There is also an area in the church that has multiple candles that parishioners can light in memory of a loved one or in respect to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, God, and so on. One other thing that is a given at a Catholic church is the open access to the Holy Water. Up at the front there is the alter were the Priest will lay out the bread and wine to do the blessing for communion. Behind the alter is usually a large sculpture of Jesus on the cross. To the side of all the pews is where the choir sits. Once church starts we do our blessings and great one another. We have two readings from the bible and then the priest does his sermon explaining the readings. After that we take the bread and wine and then do our closing song. This is what I was used to. So going to my friend’s church was rather outside of my comfort zone. My best friend Jess is a very devout Christian...
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...Question Final Project Plan |What religion would you like to consider for your final project? | | |Describe the place of worship you will visit. |I would like to study the Catholic religion, because I am | | |Baptist. I will ask one of my friends who is a Catholic. | |What do you already know about this topic? | | | |I really do not much about the religion. I believe Catholic | | |Religion is that almost of Chrisitans Religion. I know a little | | |about catholic holidays. I am hoping to learn more through this | | |project since my knowledge on this topic is extremely minimal. | |What resource will you use to find a place of worship for this | | |religion? |I could go to Church with my friend, or I could go online and | | |find a local Catholic Church other than my friends to worship...
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...Domestic Violence - HUS 201 | The Catholic Church-Child Sexual Abuse Scandal | 14 December 2013 | The Catholic Church – Child Sexual Abuse Scandal Throughout many decades, there has been a scandal circulating, which many found disturbing, abusive, and mistrusting. Throughout many decades, there has been a scandal circulating, which many found disturbing, abusive, and mistrusting. Religion is a “set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially whenconsidered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional andritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs (Dictionary.com).” Many individuals across the world practice the Catholic religion. According to BCC World News in the article, How Many Roman Catholics Are There in the World?, there are an estimated 1.2 billion practicing Catholics around the world. In this paper, you are going to learn about the findings within the past of child sexual abuse within the Catholic church, the history of the abuse, who was affected by this problems, and future solutions. Nationally, there has been an epidemic against child sexual abuse within the Catholic church. This abuse is arising from all of the world including, but not limited to, Australia, The United States of America, Brazil, and Italy. This abuse has been happening for a long time. In the book, Father Thomas Doyle, alongside former monks Richard...
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...because I wasn’t really sure of how I would be received and how I should dress, and if there would be all sorts of questions. I didn’t want to offend anyone so I decided to visit a Catholic church instead. I decided to visit a Catholic Church that I am familiar with only by of way visiting there to take my grandmother for bingo. I also know several co-workers that have either attended here for service and or for school. Upon driving up the church you really do get a “churchy” felling. The outside of the building is beautiful with a large center steeple and stained glass windows. The building is of a light color limestone, like many of the older building located here in town. The building is expansive it takes up almost half a block. On one side is the church with few parking spaces and across the street is an even larger parking lot. The service was interesting in that it was “low key” I guess I would want to say. What I mean by this is that it wasn’t the loud, singing, testimony, booming voice service that I am use to attending. The pastor spoke in a low calm tone and the hymns to me were kind of monotone. I’m use to more upbeat singing with the piano, keyboards, saxophones and strong soulful voices that sing several songs before the preacher takes to the alter. The service at the Catholic Church was very quiet almost solemn in a way. I feel that the overall service was direct more so on a level of teaching for understanding but still keeping within the relm of how...
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...children that can be sold in meat markets. This surprise is identical when swift suggests that children should be sold to meat places as it would boost the Irish economy and have new recipes in their menu. This creates surprise as swift had to consistently eat or sell his children if they lived in Ireland. In his surprise ending, swift was successful in convincing as he had already calculated on the age, price and weight of the children to be sold. Also in his proposal he argued that chefs could improve their culinary skills as there would be new meat in their recipe. Similarly, swift gives a surprise ending as he uses the catholic religion as satire when he uses “papist” word used by anti-Catholics to reject pope. By being stereotypic on Catholics, he argues that young infants were not able to steal which implied that it was a common practice of the Irish catholic. Generally, swift uses satire in his modest proposal as it is unbelievable in what he was proposing such as selling and eating babies. Suggestions such as using carcasses of the infants to be used as women gloves and clothing also creates prejudices against the poor. Also by his declaration that landlords “devoured” the unable parents depicts that the wealthy lived on the expense of the poor. Swift uses the rich as satire to show how disconnected they were from the poor that would agree with his outlandish...
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...2012 I chose to research the Catholic religion since I know very little about the Catholicism except that it was my mother’s religion. I went to church very briefly but was too young to grasp what Catholicism was about and how a Catholic was taught to act and believe. When I was in high school, I briefly dated someone who was a very conservative Catholic and we talked about our beliefs. He informed me I could never be a ‘true’ Catholic because some of my personal beliefs went against the church’s teaching. However when I asked him if his views were based off personal beliefs, like mine, or if they were due to the teachings of his religion he couldn’t truly answer. That experience really turned me off to Catholicism. I felt religion wasn’t for me if that was what the church was teaching its ‘flock’; forcing them to believe what the church wants you to believe and installing within you the fear of sinning against or the threat of being removed from the church if your views are different. I’m not one who believes in following the teaching of a religion verbatim especially since most religions have not evolved with the changes of time and still hold strong to the ideals and beliefs that were prevalent hundreds of years ago. Before researching Catholicism I had many misconceptions regarding the Catholic religion. When I decided to research Catholicism I really felt this would strengthen my belief that religions, particularly conservative religions like this one, are mind-washing...
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...Kondrisack Professor Joseph Parot History 364 October 12, 1996 Protestants and Catholics in America: Historical Tensions and Efforts Toward Religious Unity When America was being discovered, many of the people brought their beliefs over from Europe and other countries. People tried to educate the natives and have them convert. People needed to have their belief flourish so it that there would be a chance for their religion to survive. Among several different groups of people and their religions trying to gain the largest following, many ideas and people collided. This collision began many years of protests, fighting and wars. There was much tension toward many religious groups but there was a strong opposition between Protestants and Catholics. Protestants and Catholics view many beliefs in the same light but there are beliefs that separated these two groups. There were beliefs that separated Protestants from each other, but most of them began their beliefs protesting against Catholicism. Protestants were not developed in America. For Protestants,"Europe was the original scene of operations. The opening event was a movement that today goes by the name of Protestant Reformation."(Nuesner, 1994, p37) Catholic groups have their own reformations but for Protestants this was the beginning of their journey. The Reformation began because there were many leaders who did felt, Catholics were operating in immoral ways. Actually, Protestantism was a branch of western Christianity...
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...Catholics and Baptist Get Togther A Paper Submitted to Dr. Martin Klauber In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for CHHI 525-D02 Liberty Theological Seminary By William Maitre L23686814 Lynchburg, Virginia Sunday, August 18, 2013 Table of Contents THESIS 3 INTRODUCTION 3 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 3 THE BAPTIST CHURCH 6 THEY DECIDED TO MEET 8 RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 11 CONCLUSION 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 THESIS How did the meeting between the Southern Baptist and Catholics come to pass? What was the driving force that facilitated a meeting of the minds after centuries apart? INTRODUCTION The Catholic Church and Protestants have not had the greatest of relationships. In fact since the reformation, Protestants were not even considered brothers within the realm of the Catholic Church. Within the pages of Vatican II one can find a decree to not refer to them as brothers. However something new has occurred and this is what this paper will aim to delve into. While not attempting to be an exhaustive work regarding the meeting of the minds. It would seem that Baptist and Catholics have started talks across denominational lines. This paper will focus on why this meeting took place and what can other denominations gleam from these talks. CATHOLIC CHURCH “Over the past three decades...
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...Maldonado REL/ 133 July 23, 2012 Astrid Fiano Elements of Religious Traditions Religion is the most volatile and controversial word in the world. When people say the word [religion] they are invoking a strong batch of feelings, beliefs, and traditions that people are so connected to it that they are willing to die for it. Religion is a complicated system of beliefs, ideas, doctrines, ethics all proselytized by a complex system of structures and organizations. However, complicated religion may be, there are strong structural similarities between the majority of religions and some that are universal. These similar structures within religions around the world indicate that religion has the same purpose for all those who follow it, regardless of the form of religion that they follow. To show the purpose of religion, this paper will compare and contrast the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church in particular what their religious tradition says, what their religious tradition practices and how their particular church is organized. A person may be tempted to consider various forms of monotheism to find similar structures within them but Christianity alone has many different forms of practice within it. However many forms of practices in Christianity the ultimate purpose of any religion is to provide an explanation for the unknown like death, space, and the ultimate unknown our origin. Religion tries to provide explanations to these unknowns by establishing religious traditions...
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...Trough out history, differences on religions, and fight for dominance power and land has been the main cause of war. The 30 years war, named after its length of war during 1618 to 1648 is the only war that was solely fought for religious reasons between European powers of that era. The thirty years was is considered a religious war because the growth increase in religious intolerance and religious rivalries which led to be the sole cause of the war but as the war progressed it became less about religion and more about territory and dynastic issues. Previous to the 30 years’ war the Holy Roman Empire was facing a large hold of its catholic followers; the church had begun to decline due to scandals inside of the church. In 1555 peace of Augsburg became recognized as the first treaty indicating that the leader of the Holy Roman Empire could determine the religion of its people it ruled , this was a tactic to reestablish and re enforce the catholic church and weaken the protestant and Lutheran church. This lead to the 30 years’ war, a time where political differences and fight for religious freedom where fought. During the time of the 30 years war, it faced four different stages during its time. This four eras of the war where the...
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...Site Visit # 1 For my first site visit, I decided to attend Saint Martin of Tours Church. I am not of any religious background and do not attend church, if I do go to church it is with my husband and his family during holidays and they are Lutheran. I personally have never attended a Catholic church, so that I why I decided to attend this church. I attended Saint Martin of Tours Church on July 13, 2014 and it is located in Valley City. The church is very large and beautiful. It is made out of all brick and many large glass windows. The inside of the church is just as I would of imagined also, very bright and welcoming. When I first walked in, a woman who welcomed me and handed me what they call a bulletin greeted me. As I entered the chapel, I noticed there were three different aisles and 4 long rows of seats or pews. The ceilings were vaulted and extremely high. I was surprised how large it was in inside, although the building is very large for the outside, I do not think I imagined it being so massive inside. At the front of the chapel, there were three very large wooden arches behind the pastor, and in the middle of the arches was a very large wooden cross. Just above the cross was a very intricate circle of stained glass, it had every color imaginable and resembled what looked like a flower to me. There were also signs in the front corners of the church that had numbers listed on them. I actually asked my husband, who went with me, what...
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...of discrimination as people seek to justify their religious beliefs as an indirect way of dismissing the beliefs of other groups. Another form taken by modern religious discrimination is where an isolated case of irresponsibility is used to judge a whole religion. An example can be given of the child abuse scandal committed by catholic priests that was used to express disapproval of the entire Catholic Church and its teachings (Taylor 1). This case demonstrated that despite the tremendous efforts made by both the government and the various religious groups in the country, religious discrimination remains prevalent and there is need for increased efforts to sensitize people on the implications this form of discrimination has on the peaceful coexistence of communities. Although I have not experienced discrimination because of my religious beliefs, there remains a possibility of it happening. However, I plan to use the chance positively and sensitize the other party on the importance of accommodating the beliefs of others even when those beliefs contradict with ours. It is only through continuous education that sustainable interventions on eradicating religious discrimination will be achieved. Works Cited Taylor, Pamela. Catholics More Likely to Face Ethnic Bias than Religious Discrimination. Onfaith, 16 March 2007. Web. 18 Sept. 2014. <...
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...The role of woman in Elizabethan times Wealthy * Wealthy women were allowed education * Wealthy women were tutored at home * They were taught in Latin, Italian, Greek and French * Dancing and Music skills were essential * Women were not allowed to go to university Middle Class/Poor * Did not attend school * Did not receive formal education * Had to learn to govern a household * Had to become skilled in housewife duties * Learned only what needed to be known in order to marry Marriage * Elizabethan women were expected to marry * People were suspicious with single women * Single women were often associated with witches * Elizabethan women are supposed to be dependant of their male relative throughout their entire life * Marriage was desirable for lower class women * With parental permission, it is legal for girls at 12 years of age to marry * The Role of Unmarried Women * Single women could spend their life in a convent or a nunnery * It was eventually no longer an option * Thus, the only other option was domestic service The Role of Women in Marriage * Women were expected to bring a dowry (i.e. a small amount of money, goods and property) to the marriage * After marriage, women were expected to run households and provide children * Large families were normal * High mortality rates (i.e. death of infants under 1 years old) at that time * Many women made arrangements...
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