Filipinos Reaction towards Papal Visit: More on Filipinos or by Pope Francis presence? Philippines is one of the two Catholic predominant countries in Asia‚ other than East Timor and it is the third largest Catholic country in the world after Brazil and Mexico. As the religion acquired by Spanish colonization with the wonder of its tradition and style and despite of the fact that the country has different languages‚ 80 percent of the Filipinos are Roman Catholic that shared a common way of life
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catholic church by Pope Leo X in 1520. the prayers are set in sets of decades. these decades reflect on the mysteries and events in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. The laity wanted to be able to pray with the monks. The monks came up with a solution to use sets of prayers so the laity could keep pace with them. This would help both groups start and finish together. The rosary was revealed first to Saint Dominic by Mary. This belief is supported by thirteen popes. Pope Clement VIII declared
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undeniably a phenomenon of which our Church Leaders ought to accept and must face head-on. There is no turning back; the call for an “aggiornamento” (John XXIII 1962) inside and outside the Church is indispensable for the good of the people. The Philippine Church must transform to an emerging Church of the future‚ “the Church from the grassroots‚” (John Burdick and W.E. Hewitt 2000) if genuine renewal is a serious agendum of every bishops throughout the archipelago in each of their ecclesiastical territory
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Additional Chapter 2 Notes Ways that show how “the desire for God is written on the human heart.” Two examples are: Looked for God through meditation: Saint Thomas Aquinas made up five proofs of the existence of God. Saint Paul thought about God and wrote about Him in letters to Christians around the world. Looked for God through prayer: Teresa of Avila‚ known for prayer and writings. Hildegard of Bingen wrote sacred music and meditations. Looked for God through sacrifices: Therese
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Many Churches provide food‚ clothing‚ and a home to those who are impoverished or homeless. Some people like Saint Vincent de Paul or Saint Louise de Marillac devoted their whole lives to helping those in need and even helped educate the poor as a way to attempt to stop the cycle of poverty. Sadly‚ in the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution caused a whole new class of
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In almost every society‚ there are crimes and violations of human rights. To deal with these things‚ there are laws that prescribe the prevention of their occurrences. However‚ if the law is broken‚ commensurate punishment is put on the violator. Depending on the seriousness of the crime‚ the punishment may be light such as imprisonment for up to one year with corresponding fines‚ or it could also be severe as death penalty. Capital punishment or death penalty is usually imposed on persons who
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approaching the end of life to cope with their pain through medical‚ psychological‚ and social means. Gary Bauer -Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God‚ since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person Pope John Paul II ( found on : http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Euthanasia-page-0.htm ) -"From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia‚ history teaches that granting the state legal authority to
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The End of the Pius Wars Joseph Bottum Who‚ even among scholars in the field‚ could keep up with the flood of attacks on Pius XII that began in the late 1990s? John Cornwell gave us Hitler’s Pope‚ and Michael Phayer followed with The Catholic Church and the Holocaust. David Kertzer brought charges against Pius XII in The Popes Against the Jews‚ and Susan Zuccotti reversed her previous scholarship to pen Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. Garry Wills used Pius as the
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than 100 countries. Over the years‚ Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centres around the world. Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983‚ while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989‚ she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991‚ after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico‚ she suffered further heart problems. She
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THE VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE Pope John Paul II Virtue is not something abstract‚ detached from life‚ but‚ on the contrary‚ it has deep "roots” in life itself‚ it springs from the latter forms it. Virtue has an impact on man’s life itself‚ on his actions and behavior. It follows that in all these reflections of ours‚ we are speaking not so much of the virtue of man as a living and acting “virtuously”; we are speaking of the prudent‚ just and courageous man‚ and finally‚ precisely today‚ we are speaking
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