Pope John Paul I

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, the struggle for Sister Aloysius to prove—and for Sister James to believe—that Father Flynn molested Donald Muller serves as the central conflict. Father Flynn is progressive, hoping to reform the church which causes the more conservative Sister Aloysius to appear intolerant and suspicious of him simply for his radical ideas. This conflict addresses other concerns beyond abuse, such as that of the subjugation of gender in the Catholic church, which affects Sister…

There has been positive transformations in the Roman Catholic and Native American traditions. There were struggles that took place in both religious groups before these transitions occurred. Pluralism and ethnicity are two of the most important episodes in the Roman Catholic faith. Ghost Dance and inculturation have contributed significantly to Native American tradition. Each of these changes in both religions have created a more diverse congregation, unity, and collaboration of different…

The Fourth Lateran Council, as called by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), was conducted on April 19, 1215. This council is sometimes referred to as the “Great Council” as over nine-hundred abbots and over four-hundred bishops attended the event at the Lateran palace in Rome. Some of these clergy men were “coming from as far afield as the Latin empire of Constantinople and crusader-held territories in the Levant (MP p. 139)” due to the importance of the event. The council, or synod as it sometimes…

The conflict between Catholics and Protestants in France assumed many forms. It was a physical conflict, but also an ideological one where both parties used propaganda to fight each other. Pamphlets and images where used by both the Catholics and the Protestant to discredit the adversary and rally people to their cause. The Great Marmite Overturned, Le Renversement de la grand marmite in French (Fig. 1), is one of those images. It is a woodcut, which was first produced in 1562 by an unknown…

Renzo D. Lasam Angelica De Asis-Tomintz Lit14 R18 March 4, 2016 Understanding the Dramatic Situation in Angela Manalang-Gloria Soledad In every culture, there are norms, patterns and standards that are expected of a group, which dictate how an individual’s social behavior and way of thinking is. To talk about issues and to do acts that go against these norms, more often than not, merits judgment from the community and are defined as ‘taboo’. In the Philippines, it is part of the norms of…

Part A I completed a week of observation in St Kathryn’s national school*(pseudonym) in County Galway. The school’s patronage is Roman Catholic and the school is situated in a rural town. The school was established in the 1970s as a result of the amalgamation of three small local schools. The school places a strong ethos on its catholic ethos. Through communication with the school staff, I discovered that the area provided a Hedge school in the penal laws era in Ireland. (Murray K, 2017). Hedge…

room is used for the members not only to have dinner, but also to nourish themselves with religious teachings and spiritual virtues the leaders of the organization impart. Upon the walls of all of the rooms in the house, magnificent framed pictures of Pope and Mother Mary hang here and there. Also, a variety of Catholicism-related pictures, especially the pictures describing or symbolizing the famous accounts of Bible, hang upon the walls as…

In this analysis, I am choosing to write about my spirituality and religious beliefs. From a young age, Catholic values and morals were instilled in me by my parents and other family members and I did not seem to have any other choice besides blindly obeying. I was sent to parochial school starting at age three, where we all knew the Ten Commandments by the time we finished preschool and were finger-painting biblical stories during arts and crafts hour. Until my sophomore year of high school…

Introduction Dorothy day was born on the 8th of November 1897 in New York City to her parent John and Grace Day. Throughout her life, starting at a young age, had to face a number of difficulties, these included: leaving her life in New York to move to Chicago, having to face a period of poverty after her family lost their home and their income to an earthquake, getting arrested and going on hunger strikes in a protest, and even having failed relationships and an abortion. During these hard…

There are various versions of Christianity due to the different beliefs and views that people had, which in turn created the different branches within the religion. One example of this is the Great Schism. The Great Schism was the split between the Eastern and Western Christianity. This occurred after the centuries of progressive separation in which the two traditions developed their own distinctive forms. When it came to their differences, they ranged from minor to more contrasting…