Pope Francis has been declared Time’s Person Of The Year. Looking back on 2013, he has done some incredibly progressive things to lead the Church. 1. He spoke out against frivolous spending by the Church The average set of cardinal’s clothes costs as much as $20,000. In October, Pope Francis urged officials to dress more modestly and not to squander such money. In the same month, he ordered a German bishop to explain how he had spent $3 million on a marble courtyard. 2. He invited a boy with Downs Syndrome for a ride in the Popemobile During a general audience, Pope Francis invited Alberto di Tullio, a 17-year-old boy with Downs Syndrome, to ride in his Popemobile while thousands watched. The boy and his father were …show more content…
19. He refused to send away a child who had run on stage to hug him During the Year of Faith Celebrations, a young boy ran on stage as the Pope was giving a speech. When assistants tried to remove the boy, Francis allowed him to
Rulers opposed papal power because the canon laws that restricted things the rulers were allowed to do with churches within their kingdom. They would have to get approval from the pope before they did certain things. This forced them to have to make compromises where secular and religious claims coincide.
On March 13, 2013 white smoke ushered in a new era within the Roman Catholic Church. For the first time in its history, a Pope from the Americas was chosen to lead. It was expected that the newly elected American Pope, who called himself Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, would help restore the Catholic Church’s reputation, reform the clerical bureaucracy, and reinvigorate Catholic participation. In the first few months of his papacy, that is exactly what he did.
Do you love animals and nature? Do you want to make trees plentiful again? Do you want to adopt all the puppies and kittens when you walk into the shelter? Well do I have a saint for you!
The President of the United States is often referred to as the most powerful person in the world. This position offers presidents a unique opportunity to reach a large audience and to command its attention. Presidents frequently use this advantage as a “bully pulpit” to persuade citizens and to vote for favored legislation.
The United States first declared its independence back in 1776. Just a decade later, the Constitution was written and signed on September 17, 1787. To this day, this document represents the supreme law of the United States of America. The first President of the United States was elected on February 4th in 1789. His name of course was George Washington. This was the start of the United States, since then we have had 43 other presidents. Each and every one of those presidents has done something for our country. Whether good or bad, effective or not very effective this is how our country has become what it is today. Since WWII, the United States has had 12 different Presidents that have led our nation and looked over significant events and decisions that have shaped this country.
The morning of March 4, 1801, the outgoing President of the United States John Adams left Washington D.C. before sunrise, the morning his successor was to be sworn into office. Criticized for being a poor loser for not staying to welcoming the incoming President of the United States, this quiet event in the stillness of the morning was one of the most profound events in political history and an example of the uniqueness of the American system of government. The peaceful transfer of power.
With the elections coming along swiftly and the hard decision upon us one is left to think. Think about who we will vote for yes, but also why we have this awesome power to vote for our new commander and chief, the person that can make decisions that can alter our future. We the people get to choose who fills this position. Our countries fate is in our hands and I would like to know what gives us this power and why. Why are eighteen year olds allowed to vote and what makes these eighteen year olds qualified to vote. Not just this but also, why do we vote? And most importantly to the men and women that reside in the United States of America, is voting the most rational, and efficient way to choose the man or woman that will run our great country for the next four years?
One of the chief principle roles of the President of the United States is as Chief Executive. As Chief Executive, it is the president 's duty to "faithfully executive the laws" that are passed by Congress. The way the president accomplishes this is through the bureaucracy, which is broken down into the four types of bureaucracy. These types are Cabinet Departments (Department of State), Independent Executive Agency (Central Intelligence Agency), Independent Regulatory Agencies (The Office of Personal Management), and Government Corporations (AMTRAK). As well Presidential Commissions such as the 9/11 Commission in 2001 would also count as a special type of bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is the largest portion of government, with nearly 2.8 million employees, though even as Chief of Executive the president only has direct control over about 3,000 bureaucrats. Therefore, the president actually doesn 't possess that power over the functions of this area.
1) The President of the United States is certainly one the most powerful people in the free world, but interestingly, the Constitution 's drafters did not expect this to be the case. Constitutional provisions limited the early presidency. James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution”, was worried that the "power balance" tilted toward the House of Representatives. Madison believed that its control in terms of taxes and spending and its ability to legislate laws that narrowed the powers of the executive and the judiciary made the legislative branch the real center of national power.
I am writing to ask for your administration to support the development of initiatives and policies to stop the climate change. Four decades from now, we do not want to repeat the story in The Age of Stupid, movie in which a man lives in the devastated future world of 2055. The man looks back to today’s date and asks himself why we did not stop the climate change when we had the chance. However, today global warming is out of control, global temperatures are steadily rising. “The primary cause, a consensus of scientists has said, is the rising emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane” (Stone, 2013). The carbon dioxide (CO2) stays in the atmosphere for 50 to 100 years, nitrous oxide
Christians everywhere considered Jerusalem to be the main Holy city where Jesus Christ lived and died. A thousand years after the life of Jesus, this Holy city of Jerusalem was no longer controlled by the Jews, but was overtaken and controlled by the Muslims. The Christians of Western Europe around the eleventh century begun to emerge as a significant player in Europe. With their confidence growing and their faith building, their Christian heritage and Holy city of Jerusalem begun to take a more prominent role in their life. For the next 200 years, the Roman Catholic Church, specifically the Pope, commissioned Christians in Western Europe to take up arms in an attempt to take back the Holy City. Each Pope used different motivations and
Rand Paul, the son of famous libertarian Ron Paul presidential candidate, and Kentucky senator began running for the position of president of the United States of America, on April 7th 2015 under the Republican Party. He ran under the slogan Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream, and promised to be a non-establishment Republican president. Rand Pal is by far the best candidate for the presidency in all fields, but most specifically, for our economy, our foreign affairs, and our rights and liberties.
More than 800 years ago, St. Francis came upon a church outside of Assisi, Italy, that was in great disrepair. In the midst of the mess, on a wall, was a crucifix. As he knelt in prayer, the image on the cross spoke to him, telling him to “Go, and repair my church.” Francis didn’t turn to a fundraiser to raise the money to get the job done. He assumed his rather wealthy family would help. He was wrong. His father disowned him. But like Jesus, Francis had an extended view of “family.” All of creation, all people, especially the poor, became his family. Francis didn’t know a thing about fundraising. But he knew how to work with his hands for the poor. If more was needed, then he begged. Eight hundred years later, Franciscans are still working with their hands and begging to help the poor in the name of the
As you may already know, Pope Leo has been very influential in past political affairs. Earlier this past week, in the village where the rivers Po and Mincio meet, just north of Rome, Pope Leo spoke to the barbaric tyrant, Attila the Hun, to head off his attack on Rome. Attila has already attacked various other northern Italian cities and towns and was marching on Rome.Pope Leo managed to negotiate a way to keep the Empire safe and you may be surprised about how he did it. A contemporary account states that Pope Leo said, “The senate and the people of Rome, once conquerors of the world, now indeed vanquished, come before thee as suppliants. We pray for mercy and deliverance. O Attila,
Pope John Paul the Second It was recently this year that the Catholic world had lost its leader,