What Is Wrong With The Holy Church

Father Amaro is initially shown as an enthusiastic young priest that is determined to make a change in the small town of Los Reyes. While he appears to be devoted to his cause, it is gradually revealed that he is as vulnerable to committing sins as any individual, given that he uses the Church as a tool to appear more religious. Father Benito is very similar to Father Amaro when considering his tendency to seem dedicated at helping the world while he is actually cooperating with drug lords.

Everywhere the Priest went the people of the town would go to him and ask if he can help or listen to whatever was going on in their life. The Priest was always down to listen even though he had his own problems and had to be on the run every time because he never knew where the cops would be next. People in the towns would always attend his masses that would always be held by him. Also people in the town would ask the Priest if they can baptize someone and that’s exactly what he did. The Priest always went out of his way to help everyone else out and he was proud to do it. The Priest was lucky enough to even have people on his side since religion wasn’t a thing anymore, but the people knew that the Priest was a good person and he was just trying to do the best thing that he could

Social structures such as the family, the village, and the town are central to the pearl. However, the central unit, for Kino and Juana is their family. They make sacrifices for each other and their son Coyotito. Kino and Juana’s dedication towards their son Coyotito is most evident through their wish for him to “go to school” (p25) and “break out of the pot that holds” (p39) them in. Although Kino’s family life is threatened upon the discovery of the pearl, much of its damage is caused by the individualistic greed of the people surrounding them. “The doctor,” (p7) “the priest,” (p27) “the neighbors,” (p8) and “the pearl buyers” (47) all equally contribute to Kino and his family’s downfall.

This way, Kino’s race is always considered below the spaniards because of how poor and uneducated they are. “And the newcomers, particularly the beggars from the front of the church who were great experts in financial analysis, looked quickly at Juana’s old blue skirt, saw the tears in her shawl, appraised the green ribbon on her braids, read the age of Kino’s blanked and the thousand washings of his clothes, and set them down as poverty people and went along to see what kind of drama might develop.”(8). This passage from The Pearl shows how even beggars look down upon Kino and ranks Kino below even the

Practices. Even though just about every pope has hurt the Church in his own unique way, there are some common sins among them, such as the acts of simony and selling indulgences. These sins are closely related because one led to the other. Simony is selling positions within the Church, which led to corrupt people buying their way in, and once they were in, they sold the people certificates called indulgences that were supposed to get one's soul out of purgatory, and then pocketed the profits from this. Once people started finding out about these shady dealings, it revealed the hypocrisy of the Church. They would preach ideas like the one found in 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving

I will now go on to Trinidad, Father Martinez's "nephew" who also exhibits a divided character, lustful and gluttonous, as well as having himself crucified and scourged during Passion Week. When he ate dinner, he ate as if he were "afraid of never seeing food again. When his attention left his plate for a moment, it was fixed in the same greedy way upon the girl who served the table...with careless contempt"(145). Trinidad seems to have such an ugly personality, but at the same time he carries out his religious duties, to the extreme.  It is as if one makes up for the other, contradicting Catholicism.  Padre Martinez, who also tends to acts upon rules of his own, has taught Trinidad literal religion, not spiritual religion. Trinidad seems to think repeated sins can easily be forgiven, acting more to please those around him instead of God. Trinidad's character of sin and solitude seems to be allowing him to get the best of both worlds, when he should just be content with one.

In my youth, I never enjoyed going to church. I found it to be a tedious waste of time, so in an attempt to get out of it, I said I didn’t believe in it and claimed to be an atheist. My parents, of course, either didn’t believe me or simply didn’t care and continued to force me to attend mass every Sunday. In a last ditch effort to procure one extra hour of fun a week, I decided to do a little research into why Catholicism was “wrong” so I would sound more believable and my parents would take my claim seriously. In my innocent quest for ways to disprove an entire religion, I found a lot of lies, a lot of opinion, and absolutely no definitive answers. At first I was completely befuddled by the swamp of lengthy bible passages that could be interpreted

Throughout the novel, Pedro Paramo, the author Juan Rulfo uses imagery, conflict, foreshadowing and juxtaposition to comment on the corruption of organized religion in the world, particularly the Catholic Church. The small village where the novel is set, has become a prison for the souls who remain and the local Priest abuses his position of authority to decide who will be blessed and be released. The author juxtaposes the terrible surroundings and actions of the townspeople with the purity of the religion they believe in. The people of the town are betrayed by the one they are supposed to idolize most, sin most egregiously and yet, even when they know that they are damned to eternity, they continue to rely on their religion for salvation.

The clergy are portrayed very negatively in the novel. The clergy are not noble, honest or Christ like which is what people normally equate with a man that holds such a position. Lazarillo’s second master was a priest but his actions defy those of a priest. The priest also starves Lazarillo. The priest tried to prevent Lazarillo from stealing food and money but he was no match for the cunning Lazarillo.

The action of preaching with the leading of a shooting shows both of the family morals being questioned when they were all sitting in church listening to the priest passages and rightly morals. Hypocritically revealing the climax between the two local families as they ignored the priest and broke out in a feud. The topic of morals being cleverly revealed shows how religion is still being made fun of with an event of two families being shown through the

When the Hebrew peoples lost everything and entered into captivity to Babylon, they were a lost and floundering nation. “After the days of Solomon, the history of Israel was a story of increasing apostasy and judgement” (Clowney, 2013, p. 185). Despite their breaking of the covenants, and sinning against God in the worst ways, God did not abandoned them. He was very unhappy, and sent many prophets to speak His words to try to bring them back into relationship with Him, then God sent judgements down upon them. However, through these judgements, He kept to His promise to Abraham to ultimately bless the nations of Israel. (Clowney, 2013, p. 193) When they were allowed by Cyrus to return to Jerusalem (Arnold & Beyer, 2008, p. 58), with permission

Machiavelli’s La Mandragola is a satire which focuses on major flaws in the world: the corruption and immorality of the Catholic Church. La Mandragola describes a great, wise, and virtuous woman, Lucrezia, who is turned sour and spoils. Lucrezia is manipulated by men to adhere to their wants and needs and, in the end, she becomes what every husband fears—unfaithful. This is very comparable to the behavior of the Catholic church during the same period; thus, Machiavelli thought to draw a parallel between the two. Many times throughout history and literature the Roman Catholic church has been referred to using feminine pronouns, so it would only make sense for a woman to symbolize the church—Lucrezia. The parallel between Lucrezia and the

Tanner Dean Mr. Hulings History of the Americas 3/8/15 1278 words Historical Accuracy of The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, is about a Mexican priest on the run from the authorities who are out to kill him and every other Roman Catholic priests they can find. The story is based on a true happening in history in Mexico back in the 1920 to 1930s. The government ran a campaign of religious persecution and hundreds of priests were rounded up and murdered, their churches destroyed. (Miller)

Everyone is born with sin because of Adam’s sin. A person has to be right with God to be cleansed of their sin. Christians are viewed as evil as murderers in this time period in Mexico. The punishment for Christians is the same as the most vicious murderers. The reason their society has become so poor is because leaders of their country have turned from God and began seeking their own selfish desires (Greene 1). Greene is portraying a world where the corrupt and the evil holds the power, whereas the righteous and the deserving is being persecuted (Richardson 1). The Chief of Police is the diabolical villain in this book. He had a poor childhood, and blames God for all of the unpleasant aspects of his life, and he makes it his mission to kill the Priest (Power and the Glory 1). Greene uses this journey the Priest must go through as a way to demonstrate how everyone is on their own journey to discover their

I believe we exist for one purpose. That purpose is to worship and reflect our Heavenly Father. He has given His instructions to us in the Bible. The Bible tells of how we are to administer the church, how we are to worship in the church and who is to have roles in the church.