TITLE PAGE: CASE STUDY 1 Case Study Martina Ferrine December 2‚ 2014 Devry University Professor Morello TITLE PAGE: CASE STUDY 2 Questions for exploration: What did some reform-minded Catholics in Nicaragua hope that the pope might do during his visit to that country? What position did the pope eventually make clear to the Nicaraguan priests? Why were some Nicaraguan Catholics disappointed with the pope’s position on political action? What did they correctly
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How Saint Benedict Lives Out His Rules “The Rule of Saint Benedict” is a guideline for the Benedictine monks to follow in order to thrive in their relationship with God. In Saint Gregory’s account of “The Life of Saint Benedict‚” Saint Benedict illustrates the rules he established and demonstrates how these rules help the monks to lead a holy life. Saint Benedict clearly lives out his own rules in a few instances such as‚ not becoming angry‚ practicing the steps of humility‚ and not succumbing
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Symbolic World Analysis Of The Boondock Saints In The Boondock Saints‚ two brothers‚ Conner and Murphy McManus are in a situation where they believe that they are being called upon by God to kill criminals. The story line begins with them in a Roman Catholic Church where the pastor is preaching about a great evil‚ the "indifference of good men." The two live in an Irish neighborhood in Boston where the Russian mob is trying to take over. It is St. Patrick’s Day‚ so the two brothers go out
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Misión Católica Nuestra Señora De Las Américas (Catholic Mission of Our Lady of the Americas) Religion is very important to most people in society today. It has been around for many years and many different religions have emerged. It is hard for a person to step into a religious environment that is unfamiliar to them. I have never been inside a church and all of my life my family never really told me about religion. The social phenomenon I studied was a Catholic Mass. On Sunday morning‚ October
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Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador was a great hero of the struggles for liberation in Latin America during that region’s "long dark night‚" a period lasting from the 1960s through the 1980s. He was an archbishop very briefly‚ a mere three years‚ 1977-1980‚ and he was an unlikely hero. The upper hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America was firmly allied with the economic and political elite. But Archbishop Romero emerged as the "voice of the oppressed" in El Salvador after he
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George Leslie Mackay is the founder of the churches in Northern Taiwan. His life had great impact on Tamsui through his missionary‚ medical and education work. He not only changed the cultural landscape of Tamsui‚ he himself became an inseparable part of Tamsui history. * Background and childhood Mackay was born in Zorra Village‚ Oxford‚ Ontario‚ Canada on March 21‚ 1844 to a Scottish emigrant family. His parents were typical Presbyterians‚ with immovable faith and devoted family values.
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What goal do you think Pope Innocent VIII was trying to achieve when sanctioning the writing of the Malleus Maleficarum through his papal bull‚ Summis Desiderantes‚ in 1484? Pope Innocent VIII could have had obviously had many goals in issuing Summis Desiderantes; however‚ in my opinion‚ one goal is much more evident than the rest. Pope Innocent VIII had one of the most corrupt papacies on record (atheism.about.com/library/ glossary/western/bldef_innocentviii.htm). Also‚ during the time of his
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Today I’m going to introduce to you all a female historical character. And she is Sophie Scholl. She was born on 9th of May 1921 and died on 22nd of February 1943‚ at the age of 22. She was a German student and a revolutionary‚ active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. I bet not all of you or even none of you know what is the White Rose group. So what is actually the White Rose group? The White Rose group is a student-led pacifist movement aimed at spreading the
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In a sensitive case of the Spanish inquisition which they saw to the death of 100 000 protestants and heretics between the 15th and 19th century. The catholic church was under monarchy rule and this formed the Spanish inquisition‚ they worked on a system of called the tribunal court in which the catholic church used the inquisition to get rid of and punish heretics. The catholic church in modern times would be seen as a dictatorship‚ a dictatorship is a part of a government of ethnic group in
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Explain why the Catholic Church was weakened by renaissance popes in the years c1500 t0 1527? 16th century Europe was mainly under the control of the Catholic pope. The pope had authority over almost everything. However‚ renaissance Popes Alexander VI‚ Julius II and Leo X did not show good examples of Holy living. The Catholic Church was weakened by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503)for different reasons‚ one way that he weakened the church was through the loss of popularity‚ this came from his sexual
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