How the Roman Catholic Church Has Changde History

Throughout time, Christianity has changed constantly. In order to survive, Christianity has had to evolve and split. It has split into many denominations, some of which have become extinct over the centuries. The religion has changed and divided due to influential people and events in time.

In the Medieval times, the Roman Catholic Church played a great role in the development of England and had much more power than the Church of today does. In Medieval England, the Roman Catholic Church dominated everyday life and controlled everyone whether it is knights, peasants or kings. The Church was one of the most influential institutions in all of Medieval England and played a large role in education and religion. The Church's power was so great that they could order and control knights and sends them to battle whenever they wished to. The Church also had the power to influence the decision of Kings and could stop or pass laws which benefited them in the long run, adding to this, the Church had most of the wealth in Europe as the

Before the Catholic Reformation, there was a Protestant Reformation. One of the leading factors that contributed to the Catholic reformation is Martin Luther. Martin Luther angered the church by writing the ninety-five thesis and posting it on the church door in 1517, he was irritated with the church because they were encouraging people who sinned to purchase indulgences to be forgiven (“Counter-Reformation”, Britannica). Martin believed that when indulgences were purchased they were not holding people accountable for their wrongful actions. The Protestant Reformation led to the rise of Protestant sects that recognized the corruption in the Roman Catholic church and began to convert others.

The Catholic Church is the oldest major religion in the Western world. Littered with peace, love, and humility, along with violence, turmoil, and controversy this institution has seen, heard, led, and had influence over the majority of everything and everybody that there was in the last two millennia. This has included ordinary people, Kings, Queens, Generals, Nobleman, Royalty, and everything in between, and has endured since the beginning of the modern era, Anno Domini. They great spiritual and monetary machine created a powerful reign over the entire world’s Catholics, and remains so to this day. For the purpose of background for my visit to a Catholic Church, being Presbyterian, I did historical research before I visited. I

The Catholic church is one of the best known religions today. Yet it was not like this before in the olden times. The Church was not reaching out into the outer peripheries. Many people in general did not know what Catholicism was. They were misguided by the pagan priests who taught them false teachings of tree-rock-sun worship. Every time the Church would attempt to evangalize these countries they would be thrown out or the evangalizers would be killed in barbaric ways. Yet 1 man stood out and managed to succesfully evangalize most of Prague and Poland. That mans name was St. Adalbert.

Throughout the first three centuries, Christianity faced persecution from the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful and influential empires in history. Nations under the control of the Rome, associated themselves with Roman traditions. Even during the split of the Roman Empire under, persecution remained and old traditions still dominated the areas of the Roman Empire. Constantine, one of the Caesar’s sons from the Tetrarchy, would go on to become emperor of Rome and challenge old beliefs.

The most important recurring issues in the study of the history of Christianity during our time period is sexual abuse amongst the Catholic Clergy and abortion, the killing of a living entity, as it is a sin against God according to biblical doctrine. Many believe that sexual abuse happening in the Catholic Church, is directly related to celibacy. The Churches restriction on priests that directs them to abstain from sexual relations. This issue has been debated since the reformation in which Martin Luther and other reformers opposed celibacy. They based their argument against celibacy on the bible scripture, namely Genesis 1:28, where God wanted people to “be fruitful and multiply”. There is nothing in the bible that directly mentions celibacy. There are many versions that mention fornication and uncleanliness and the interpretation of the Catholic Church seems to have made this deduction based on those scriptures. The other major issue that is common in most of the world’s religions is abortion; the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Protestant Church still adopt the early church’s belief to oppose the practice of abortion. Abortion is considered murder and a mortal sin in accordance which many versus in the bible as it relates to each of these faiths. Even between the Old Testament, where the law or Tora refers to the 10 commandments, where Exodus 20:13 states “Thou shall not Murder” and

The Catholic Church’s Influence on the Middle Ages Despite some bad doings, the Roman Catholic Church was a positive influence on the Middle Ages because they brought the community together, supported and helped advance education, and provided food and charity for the people. They brought about good things during their time of great power and majorly affected how the time from 493 A.D. to 1417 A.D. in Europe went. To begin with, the Roman Catholic Church played a big role in uniting the people and bringing the community together.

Why is the Catholic Church so corrupt in its teaching? They have found ways to control the knowledge that their followers contemplate on. The control of knowledge and power is the foundation for every successful religious organization. The Catholic Church have acquired this power through strategic control on the mind of its follower. The Catholic Church propagate their ideals as righteous in order to be accepted; for without this acceptance, they are faced with the task of initiating this power through force. So to beguile their followers, they present themselves in “sheep clothing” (KJV, Matt 7:15). They are accepted as blameless, peaceful, loving and harmless but in actuality, “they are ravening wolves” (KJV, Matt. 7:15).

The Catholic Church has encountered many changes within the last several decades as it has worked to bring itself into the modern era. With the introduction of the newest pope, Pope Francis who has been very outspoken on certain topics that have traditionally not been discussed so openly. Some of these topics include things like gay marriage, abortion and birth control. These are topics that have been shown to be expressed as important by the younger generations as being one of the biggest factors for a more secular lifestyle for those who were initially raised in the Catholic Church. “Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults in, Out of, and Gone from the Church” claims that there are seven factors that have played into how those emerging into adulthood have changed over the last several decades.

As you’ve known from previous units, the Roman Catholic Church was the most powerful organization in all of Europe during the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. How did it come to be so powerful?

After researching, the Roman Catholic church and the Westeren Orrthodox church facts compile on the the thought that the several splits between the two and attitudes towards each other could not be resolved. Issues arised because of language barrier, opinions, and intolerance. This theisis will explain facts to prove the strong aversion, and ultimately the split.

Like religion,leadership or community there will be problems’ Though the church has had them and was a corrupt in the 1500’s many people spoke out on it and it became better because of it. The faithful of the catholic church want to help it improve thus we see the effects of it. Many pope’s too and the others of the magisterium.have helped the church become more friendly to those who were an already established catholic and maybe those who wanted to become one. The Second Vatican majorly changed how mass was celebrated and made it more community like as a result. Even now with our current pope, Pope francis we can see him being an icon of peace through his actions as he goes to many places to meet directly with people who may be suffering and as he speaks out on issues that are going on in the world like global warming. The church has changed throughout the years but events from the past and now show that there is hope for the catholic church’s

The Roman Catholic Church was very influential during the Middle Ages. The church contained many religious aspects and cultures that develop this religion, which is currently practiced today. The Church was connected with the state, in order to sustain authority and power over the Roman Catholic Church. Due to the systems of medieval Europe, powers and roles of the Church affected the Roman Catholic Church, because it influenced Medieval Europe by religious freedoms and aspects, political powers, and the effect on the crusades.

This essay will focus on the theological aspects of Catholics and the catholic church ideals and treatment on immigrants. I contend that the well the catholic church has become more progressive towards immigration views, however, Catholics have been more apprehensive about welcoming immigration. The paper will focus on immigration views within the contently US during two time periods, 1920’s and late 2010’s. In comparing these two eras I will compare and contrast political, religious, and theological difference and similarity, thus highlighting racial discrimination towards certain races of immigration at the specific time period and how that helped form calichs thoughts on immigration.