influenced Christianity as a whole‚ Pope John XXIII for example who instigated Vatican II. Christianity is a living tradition as it seeks to influence every day adherents in their every day lives. Christianity consists of different denominations (Greek Orthodox‚ Catholic‚ High Anglican). However‚ all Christian denominations share a common gospel value -the belief in Jesus‚ this is what brings various Christian churches together and this unity is known as ecumenism. Pope John XXIII reintroduced ecumenism
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freedom well. What is the highest purpose for which God created us and how can we realize this end? Jesus reveals most fully what a good life looks like. Catholic social thought can be understood as moral theology concerned with social issues. II. Four Sources of Catholic Social Thought 1. Scripture. The authoritative books which record the Jewish and Christian experiences of God’s self-disclosure. Scripture reveals who God is and who we are called to be in response to God
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Evangelium Vitae By Pope John Paul II March 25‚ 1995 5 25 38 10 – St. Cecilia Evangelium Vitae * It is translated as “The Gospel of Life.” * It is written by Pope John Paul II. * It expresses the position of the Catholic Church regarding the value and inviolability of human life. * It deals with the most basic principles‚ which are the value and sacredness of life. Not only must human life not be taken‚ but it must be protected with loving concern. Murder * “…By
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discipline of the Church and not essential to the priesthood.Agents of destruction have not for once relented in their mission. The same man who shot Pope John Paul II in May 13‚ 1981‚ in St. Peter’s Square at Vatican City is still the same person demanding that Pope Benedict XVI should resign. Mehmet Ali Ağca‚ a trained sniper from Turkey who shot the late pope has been has been making effrontery to terminate the assignment of the church to reach out to the unreached. Celibacy is an eschatological sign
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not protected until the third trimester of the pregnancy even though by around week 3 of conception the baby’s heart begins to beat. The Church emphatically condemns abortions‚ euthanasia and other violations against the sanctity of human life. Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae defends and reconfirms the Church’s view against abortion. The encyclical is issued just 3 years after the historic follow up landmark court case Casey v. Planned Parenthood where again the court upheld women’s
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Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester‚ Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather‚ 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of
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document is an intrinsically ecumenical one. It is not merely addressing Catholics in good standing with the Church‚ but the holy father reaches his hand out to assist everyone struggling with the sundry difficulties in contemporary married life. Pope John Paul II notes in section six of the exhortation that the situation of marriage and the family in contemporary life is an ironic one in the sense that there are both commendable advances being made in Western culture and enormous setbacks. It is not so
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anti-popes in the Vatican‚ whom ever since misled the faithful Catholic. Because the Vatican has abandoned the doctrine of exclusiveness since the early sixties are they now considered as fallen in heresy ipso facto‚ and not worthy of honour. . But I noticed a "testimony" that was becoming increasingly popular online‚ and I even found it published on a more traditional Catholic site (referring to a sedevacantist site)‚ because this 18 year old Ecuadorian girl claims to have seen John Paul II burning
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Zduńska-Wola‚ Poland. He was born under the name as Raymund Kolbe. He died on August 14‚ 1941 at Auschwitz‚ a German concentration camp. Before that he was ordained a priest in 1919. He beatified in 1971 and was canonized a saint on October 10‚ 1982 by Pope John Paul II. He is the patron Saint of Drug addicts‚ Families‚ Imprisoned people‚ journalists‚ and our difficult century (Maximilian Kolbe). He had 2 brothers‚ a mother‚ and a father. His mom’s name is Marianna and his father’s name is Juliusz. He was a
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Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God’s special love for the poor and called God’s people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ‚ who came "to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind"(Lk 4:18-19)‚ and who identified himself with "the least of these‚" the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic
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