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    being ruled by power hungry popes who abuse their positions of authority. At this time "the increasing hostility of the laity to ecclesiastical wealth and decadence undermined papal prestige". "Omne malum a clero"--every evil comes from the clergy. The clergy are church officials who are divided into two

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    privilege. In particular‚ King Louis XVI was the final Monarch of France who was guillotined in 1792. Furthermore‚ the political stratification of the French population was fundamentally a result of the Estates class system – the Clergy‚ the Nobility and the commoners. The Clergy estate gained its superior social status as the representative of Catholic

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    Challenges Facing the Australian Catholic Church of the 21st Century There are many challenges facing the Catholic Church in Australia during the 21st century. 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. Religious vocations are on a steep decline. As stated by the Pope‚ in regard to Australia‚ "mainstream Christianity is dying more quickly

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    made people have an “oh yeah!why NOT?!” moment and questioned their rights and the other estates rights deciding that this was unfair and unjust. These people started to believe and agree with what these philosophers thought than what the king or the clergy

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    equality. The purpose of this letter is to confront the eight clergy men and their backwards views on the issue on hand. The issue that started this debacle between the eight clergy men and King‚ was when King organized a peaceful demonstration in the city of Birmingham. In response to this demonstration‚ police officers used force to arrest King and other demonstrators for failure to have a permit to parade. In the newspaper‚ the eight clergy men wrote about the demonstrations. In response to this‚ King

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    became known as the Concordat of 1801. The Concordat recognized Catholicism as the national religion of France‚ but Napoleon would not force this religion on the people of France. Instead‚ he still allowed for the total freedom of worship. Also‚ the clergy‚ which included the bishops and the parish priests‚ became employees of the state. Napoleon was able to firmly assert religious tolerance in France through the Concordat of 1801 because it did not force Catholicism on the people of France. Other

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    interest on this debt. Louis XVI was forced to raise taxes to pay back the debts‚ leading to further tension and revolt. The first cause to the French Revolution was the pressure that taxes placed onto the Third Estate‚ or anyone that wasn’t nobility or clergy. This included the wealthier middle class‚ or bourgeoisie‚ and the extremely poor

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    In 1525‚ the German Peasants revolted against their lords and the clergy‚ but this was not the root of the conflict. From the ninth to fifteenth century‚ Germany was a feudal nation‚ meaning that it organized people into divided social classes where land ownership equated higher status. The two main social classes involved in the German Peasant War were landlords and peasants. The peasants labored on the lords’ land‚ working for them. The majority of peasants were obliged to lords; this arrangement

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    The main victims of these persecutions were those that publicly refused to sacrifice‚ or voluntarily presented themselves as Christians. Most people would be imprisoned and put on trial where the judge would issue the sentence. Ranging from a simple dismissal of the case to a very rare edict of the death penalty‚ most Christians were subjected to torture and longer periods of imprisonment in order to persuade them to dismiss their Christian beliefs. The author Eusebius quotes a letter from Dionysius

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    With the client’s informed consent‚ a clergy can be brought into the therapy phase when the need for that arises. (Barnett‚ “Integrating religion and spirituality into psychotherapy practice”‚ 17 June 2018‚ Retrieved from http://societyforpsychotherapy.org/integrating-spirituality-religion-psychotherapy-practice/) Some patients feel more secure when they get the idea that they would get a collaborative take on their illness from the religious clergy-men who they are more close to‚ to the professional

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