Papal infallibility is a doctrine of the Catholic Church that teaches the pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma within a specific circumstance. Those outside the Church generally misunderstand the Catholic teaching on papal infallibility. In particular‚ fundamentalist Christians often confuse the charisma of papal infallibility as something that affects the pope’s status. They imagine Catholics believing the pope to be sinless or unable to sin. Some people believe papal infallibility to
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Question: Can infertile catholic couples go through IVF and not feel guilty about going against their faith beliefs? Hypothesis: IT IS POSSIBLE FOR COUPLES WHO ARE STRONG IN THEIR FAITH TO GO THROUGH IVF AND CONTINUE THEIR FAITH BELIEFS WIHTOUT FEELING GUILTY. Catholicism and IVF Pope Benedict XVI: Scientific and technological progress in the field of bioethics becomes a threat when man loses sense of his own limitations and in effect‚ aims to take the place of God the creator.
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Theses on the Castle Church doors. With those theses‚ Luther rebuked the Roman Catholic Church and questioned the Pope’s authority. John Tetzel‚ who sold indulgences in Germany‚ may have inspired Martin Luther’s protest in 1517. (1) John Tetzel‚ whose German name is Johann‚ was given the task of raising money for the building of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He was exceptionally good at it‚ and he did so buy the selling of indulgences to the citizens of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Roman
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In the first section of William Manchester’s A World Lit Only By Fire‚ we are taken into a world that is vastly different from our own‚ and we see a kind of attitude which is rarely seen today. Manchester stresses the fact that the peasants in the Dark Ages had no knowledge of what was happening in the rest of the world. In our age of twenty-four-hour news networks and instantaneous access to information from across the globe through the internet‚ it is hard to fathom that if we were still living
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CELIBACY AND PRIESTHOOD The church since its birth(Catholic) has suffered many oppositions both intra and inter conflicts.The expected result of these conflicts by the frontiers is to bring the church to a brink of destruction and extinction.Following the words of Bishop J.B Adelakun;bishop emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo‚he said celibacy is "A 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
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develop the supremacy of the bishop of Rome over the entire Catholic Church‚ an institution also known as "the papacy‚" “In the first few hundred years of the church‚ the term "pope‚" which means “father‚” was used for any important and respected bishop‚ and the bishop of Rome was one of several important bishops in Christendom.” Rome had always been respected for its relationship with Peter and Paul and its position as the church in the Empire’s capital‚ especially after Christianity was legalized
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17th-century. Papacy - The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church‚ of which the Pope is the head. Indulgence - To forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins‚ granted by the catholic church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther’s protest against the sale of indulgence is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation. Protestant Reformation - Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the "protestors" forming
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change the world. This perfect storm was the protestant reformation. The protestant reformation was headed by catholic monk named Martin Luther; Luther began the reformation when he could no longer tolerate the corruption in the Roman Catholic church. The protestant reformation was caused by a variety of corruptions within the catholic church‚ and dissatisfactions outside the church related to the church’s habits‚ some of these included: economic corruption‚ the sale of indulgences‚ the power
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Western Europe’s religious face was dominated by the Roman Catholic faith. The Catholic Church was the sole athority power of day to day values‚ and before long‚ conflicting social and political issues began to shake the foundation of the corrupt Catholic Church. Moreover‚ Western Catholics began to realize the corrupt nature of the Church; as the selling of indulgences was challenged by Martin Luther’s 95 Theses‚ the hierarchal nature of the Church was displayed via blatant acts of simony‚ and the concept
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and the Latin speaking Western traditions within the Christian Church reached a terminal crisis. This crisis led to the separation between the Eastern and Western churches and is referred
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