Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines from January 15 to 19‚ 2015‚ is the first state and pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines. Though I’m not a catholic I was deeply affected that he chose the Philippines to be one of the countries he would visit. After going to Sri Lanka he went off to our country riding the plane to Villamor Air Base. A lot of Filipino citizens and media are waiting for the Pope’s arrival at the airport. The streets are filled and surrounded by the people and policemen
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Henry VIII Defender of the Faith “The Defender of the Faith” is a title of which has been bestowed upon all English Monarch since the reign of Henry VIII. Decreed by Pope Leo X on the 17th of October 1521 the title represented Henry VIII’s piety and loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church. However Henry VIII’s agenda changed‚ the pope became a hindrance to his plan thus he no longer sought the Catholic faith for guidance. From the pious‚ motivated‚ youthful King that Henry VIII was‚ to the tyrant
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history is Dante Alighieri. A prominent politician in 13th century Florence‚ Alighieri was exiled by Pope Boniface VII and the Black Guelph political party (Toynbee 98). Naturally‚ when Alighieri was exiled from his home country‚ he carried more than a few grudges and perceived slights against him. Luckily for history‚ Alighieri was not the kind of man to simply send a rude letter in the mail to Pope Boniface. He was the kind of man to write a 14‚000 line epic poem would be so groundbreaking‚ controversial
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Angels & Demons As a child we paint the world in colors and rainbow though the reality varies quiet afar from that. In our youth we know of only basic traits of happy and sad‚ then we grow and experience the world and evolve to have greed‚ maliciousness‚ and jealousy‚ that is what this world makes us. And no matter how hard we try to conceal the unlikable‚ a peek of it will always show it self through your personality.As someone who keep his evil covered till death there is a clear case made by
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revolutions in agriculture and commercialism. Influential religious leaders such as Pope Urban and Pope Gregory transformed into commanding politicians who were able to use their connection to Christianity to gain a mass amount of power.
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The Reformation According to the Roman Catholic Church‚ salvation was only possible to Christians who followed the pope and that those who did not accept the Church nor accept the pope as the representative on earth of God‚ would be damned for all eternity (Arnold). This would be the churches philosophy for a long period of time‚ as the church grew and grew‚ gaining political and economic power over every aspect of the community. This was changed by a movement called The Reformation .This movement
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In 1983‚ Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua in response to word that a growing alliance between priests and Marxists revolutionaries was emerging in Latin America. Historically‚ the Catholic Church in Europe had taken a strong anti-communist stance. And so the emerging alliance troubled Pope John Paul II despite the fact that priests claimed they were simply doing what Christ would do in championing the interests of the poor. When news began spreading throughout Nicaragua that Pope John Paul
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participated in it were called the pilgrims. In Rome‚ Pope Urban II ruled‚ a man eminent in life and character who acted wisely and actively to rise the status of the Holy Church. He saw that the trust of Christianity was being devastated by the clergy and by the laity and the treasure
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the intensifying role of the church and the pope. It was a time when the church was Catholic and its main focus was to give salvation to the people. In my opinion‚ the expansion and development of religion in the Middle Ages had both positive and negative attributions. Fortunately‚ the positive had overcome the negative in the medieval era because of the role of the church‚ the contribution of the pope‚ and influential factors that the church and the pope had on not only society in general‚ but also
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Throughout history a people’s hopes have enabled them to triumph against all odds. The militiamen of colonial America were able to protect their independence from the British‚ who at the time had the largest‚ most powerful military in the world. In more recent years‚ the passengers of a commercial airliner included in the 9/11 tragedy were able to crash their plane before it reached its unknown‚ but surely‚ life-devastating destination. These were ordinary people were able to overtake armed‚ savagely
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