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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indulgences protestants and other anti-pope figures such as Savonarola‚ Hus‚ Wycliffe‚ and Luther‚ began speaking out of the corruptions and abuses of the church. It it was for the sale of indulgences (purely economic) there would be no reason for the reformation. The sale of indulgances went on for a long while. They were peddled everywhere. They were sold for several reasons‚ such as funding crusades‚ pope pocket money‚ feed the humanistic tasts of the pope. The people recieved salvation‚ were
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away to have a standing Army. In return the Empire needed to make a deal with the Normans whom were somewhat consequently always attacking Byzantium. This would have caused a problem in that in that the pact that Michael VII made had thinned the troops. The standing army that he had instituted during peace times sent these troops to other areas of the vast empire‚ areas of less importance. This left Constantinople unprotected and open for an outside attack to happen. “In 1081 Robert Guiscard abandons
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Hello i am Pope leo the x. I am here to talk to you about some of my life. I was born Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ on December 11‚ 1475‚ in Florence‚ Italy. I was 37 year old when i became the pope in 1513.I ruled for 8 ½ years as pope.It was all well except for the monk in germany martin luther. During my time as pope i expanded vadikin library and Refurbished the saint peter’s basilica in rome. Michelangelo and raphael helped me decorate the Sistine chapel. Under my reign‚ Rome became the
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would have to take into consideration that Luther and Erasmus did not think to keenly of each other‚ and disagreed on many factors. Especially with one being of the catholic faith and the other reforming against Catholicism and protesting against the pope himself. Even though they both had their differences‚ they did both conclude that there was something wrong with the catholic church and therefore Desiderius Erasmus did lay the egg that Martin Luther hatched. Now‚ both Erasmus and Luther wrote something
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the years of 900 and 1200. Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII enforced the church’s laws against simony‚ addressing the corrupt bishops. Other popes then followed them and continued the policy of reform. In later years during the Crusades‚ the Church was made to bear a resemblance to a kingdom in leadership structure. At this time the Curia or the pope’s advisers acted as a court‚ which made the laws of the Church on matters such as marriage. The diplomats for the pope established the pope’s power
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records (Lecture‚ October 19‚ 2014). Clergy being educated also helped grow the power of the Church. As a result‚ both the West and Byzantium sought to claim divine legitimacy through the Church. In the West‚ the emperor was endorsed or blessed by the pope or religious leader (Lecture October 19‚ 2014). In Byzantium‚ the ruler claimed to have two natures‚ human and divine (Levack 243). The divine nature‚ like the blessing the Western leaders claimed from the Church‚ was used to explain his legitimacy
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Modernization refers to the processes and ideas which give rise to the evolution of newer and more refined concepts and thoughts. It brings changes to the perspective from which people see things and causes them to re-evaluate their beliefs. Modernization in Europe was characterized by expansions in trade and industry‚ urbanization; which contributed to the development of new thoughts and thinking processes‚ the rise of new questions and the need for answers and finally‚ the idea of centralization
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Magisterial Reformation‚ PP) Johann Tetzel is a wondrous salesmen but clearly no man of God by Luther’s standards. Indulgences were collected frequently by the Roman Church and were the core of their soaring monetary value‚ “During the fourteenth century popes in need of ready cash had begun to sell indulgences.” (416 The West) The church was greedy and continued to manipulate the laity‚ and they would have gotten away with it too had it not been for that meddling Martin Luther. Martin Luther translated
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Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci April 15‚ 1452 – May 2‚ 1519 Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci (Leonardo Son of Piero of Vinci) by some people the creator of the Renaissance era was born on Vinci‚ twenty miles west of Florence in a farmhouse three kilometers from the center of the city‚ between the town of Anchiano and Faltognano. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of notary Ser Piero Da Vinci and a peasant woman by the name of Caterina. Leonardo was a man of many different talents; among those talents
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