Year 9 Assessment Catholic Church in Australia The Australian Catholic Church has change by a large margin in the 21st century and has had many challenges arising. The decline in religious vocations‚ falling mass attendance‚ married clergy‚ female ordination and the role of the laity are all issues contributing to the challenges of the Australian Catholic Church. Several of today’s Catholics differ‚ often passionately‚ about the qualities of the liturgical reforms as well as the reasons for the
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Alex St. Pierre April 15th‚2013 Mrs. Capwell English 12 The Evil Pardoner In The Canterbury Tales‚ the author‚ Geoffrey Chaucer is satirizing many members of the clergy and upper-class who lived in his time period. He wrote his tales in Middle-English in order to allow for the commoners to read it‚ because the people that he was satirizing spoke mostly French. By writing in Middle-English‚ it not only allowed for the lower class to read it‚ but it also allowed for him to be slightly more harsh
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(Bonnet 32). Every townsperson passed each other in the street and stared‚ waiting for the evil to appear. Many stayed in their homes and didn’t come out to mingle with the other townspeople at town gatherings or even at weekly prayer. The town clergy were very concerned and had to
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In 1789‚ France was not a unified country. Instead‚ it was divided into three estates. The first estate was the clergy‚ who claimed to be ordained by God‚ which gave them authority over the second and third estates. The second estate was the nobility‚ a wealthy group of individuals who were almost all land owners. Buying into nobility was an option‚ but you had to be very wealthy to afford it. Between 1700 and 1789‚ around 50‚000 commoners were able to afford a noble title. The third estate was the
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America allows the clergy to determine their own policies. “The United Methodist Church does not allow same-sex marriages‚ but there is a spilt in the Church over some clergy flouting the rules and marrying same-sex couples and other‚ more conservative members threatening to leave if the church does not hold to its current rules prohibiting gay marriage”
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based on alienation from the Church. Of course‚ I do not speak here of the average Uniat. Bribed‚ tricked and starved into an outward semi-submission‚ Orthodox remained in their souls Orthodox‚ but that is not the case of their latinised and shaven clergy. For instance‚ I well remember the story of a friend who visited the Galician (so-called ‘Ukrainian’) Uniat church in London. When the priest began praying for the ‘Pope of Rome’‚ my friend turned to one of the parishioners and asked him: ‘So you’re
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influence and the growing momentum for change led to the formation of the National Assembly‚ a bold step toward a more inclusive and representative government. Recognizing the need for diversity‚ the Assembly extended invitations to members of the clergy‚ albeit with limited success. This move unsettled the monarch and his court‚ who feared the erosion of their power and privilege in the face of mounting public pressure. Louis XVI‚ pushed by his advisors‚ convened a séance royale in response to the
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with the German Christians. The Confessing church had the responsibility to unite with the German Christian Church‚ but did not know what to do with the antisemitic clergy and theologians. Therefore‚ against their own convictions‚ the Confessing Church admitted the German Church clergy to the Confessing Church because of the lack of clergy during the time.
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PROJECT 6 Kaplan University ABSTRACT This deductive essay explores the relationship between and the practices involving psychology and religion in order to uphold the ethics code. There is a sensitivity level that must be exhibited by psychology professionals that practice traditional psychology in order to make clients feel comfortable and secure in the treatment setting. In addition‚ this essay explains the use of religion in non-traditional psychology
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One out seven people on the earth is Roman Catholic. “Roman Catholics in the world (nearly 1.1 billion) is greater than that of nearly all other religious traditions” (Roman Catholicism). The Roman Catholic Church is the largest religious tradition ever created. It was the first Christian church and its beginning can be traced back to Jesus’ twelve disciples. The Catholic Church is larger than all other christian churches combined. It is even larger than individual Isam religions Sunni and Shia.
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