The Catholic Church played a large role in colonial Latin American society. The Church served as a unifying institution in a society made up of many different kinds of people - Europeans‚ Africans‚ Indigenous‚ and mixed-raced individuals - from a variety of economic backgrounds. Documents from the colonial period show that the Church was a maintainer of Iberian social order‚ and its officials and priests were expected to serve as exemplars of their religion. The Church maintained order and conveyed
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A Catholic liberal arts education is an education in the liberal arts‚ philosophy‚ and theology that takes wisdom/contemplation to be the end and so regards the liberal arts as a preparation for philosophy and theology. Moreover‚ it sees the wisdom/contemplation attained by theology as being higher than that of philosophy and‚ therefore‚ takes philosophy itself to be ordered to theology. The study of theology improves on our knowledge of God and illuminates the path to perfect happiness
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school. It was a catholic school but it was worse than a inner city school as far as students go. My group of friends and I had done stupid things before but this was scary but thrilling at the same time nothing is more thrilling has ever happened. Breaking school rules never really crossed my mind or even registered in my mind. Going to a catholic school from an early age was a strange experience for me now that I look back on it me a protestant kid in a almost all catholic school never really
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We understand Catholic identity through St. Patricks Cathedral by the Gothic Architecture. The Gothic Architecture was a new development in the 12th-16th century. The three main features Gothic Architecture are the pointed arch‚ ribbed vault and the flying buttress. The pointed arch helps support more weight‚ the ribbed vault helps to support more weight on the columns and the flying buttress helped support more weight from the outside. These features allowed more space‚ higher ceilings and larger
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In this essay I will discuss the impact of the Council of Trent on the catholic understanding of sacraments. I will briefly outline the history of the sacrament and include background information on the council of Trent. I will discuss the council’s decisions and teachings in relation to the sacraments and how the council has distinguished between the catholic understanding of sacraments and the protestant understanding of the sacraments. The term sacrament derives from the Latin sacramentum. In
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The Middle Ages was a time of rebirth for the Church. The Church had a growing amount of power‚ and used this power to get messages sent to its followers. One important message created an ever-growing distance between believes and nonbelievers of the Church. Throughout the Middle Ages there have been inconsistencies with the doctrines and actions of the Church. There is one constant within the Church‚ throughout the Middle Ages the Church has opposed outsiders and has mistreated those outsiders from
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St. Patrick St. Patrick‚ apostle of Ireland‚ was born in the village of Bannavem Taberniae‚ England‚ circa 386. His father‚ Calphurnius‚ was a deacon from a Roman family of high social standing. His mother‚ Conchessa‚ was a close relative of the great patron St. Martin of Tours. St. Patrick’s grandfather‚ Pontius‚ was also a member of the clergy. Surprisingly‚ St. Patrick himself was not raised with a strong emphasis on religion. Education was not particularly stressed during his childhood either
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was settled by Puritans who wanted the freedom to practice their religion without Catholic influence which the Church of England had. They did not seek to settle a colony for religious freedom and believing what they wanted that was not Protestantism. They wanted to be able to eliminate Catholic influence from their Protestant beliefs. They did not want to have to deal with the Church of England changing between Catholic and Protestant or having to go through the Religious War with Spain. They became
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Ireland‚ both Catholic and Protestant‚ possessed roughly the same occupational an economic profiles. His view was that the poorest immigrants headed for Britain while those with more resources ventured to destinations in America‚ Canada and even Australia. Whatever their economic status Akenson contended that immigrant populations epitomized ‘clean laboratories’ to test assertions in respect of the differing impact religion played in occupational and economic achievement. Irish Catholics in the main
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Being gay and Catholic is like enjoying mustard and coffee. While individually both pleasing‚ when mixed together not as appealing. My faith‚ an essential part of myself‚ is ingrained into my DNA and after what seemed like a lifetime of suppression‚ I also discovered inherent in myself was an attraction to women. Whether I’d like to admit it or not‚ growing up as a devout Catholic at times made it seem as if this aspect was unacceptable. I remember one day on the playground listening to a friend
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