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    Mother Teresa is one of the most written about and publicized women of the 20th century. She is the second most advertised religious celebrity after Pope John Paul II. Due to her fame, many people willingly step forward to offer their support and praise her work. The Indian media used Mother Teresa as a figure for a movement towards bettering the lives of those in the lower castes. They believe that if the Indian people were seeing a white, foreign woman caring for their family and neighbors that

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    following will reveal the Second Vatican Council and the ramifications of the agenda, history and theology evolution, significant texts, and new developments. January 25th 1959, is a day every catholic remembers because it was on that day when Pope John XXIII announced that he was assembling what was to be the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. It had been almost 100 years since the last ecumenical council, Vatican I, so naturally the Catholic world was astonished by the news. Soon

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    following will reveal the Second Vatican Council and the ramifications of the agenda, history and theology evolution, significant texts, and new developments. January 25th 1959, is a day every catholic remembers because it was on that day when Pope John XXIII announced that he was assembling what was to be the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman

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    The Church Must Catch Up

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    The article by Joanna Moorhead from the Guardian titled “Pope Francis is Pushing for Change, Now the Church Must Catch Up” discusses new practice that Pope Francis is hoping to implement at a systemic level. The Vatican can be described as a current day bureaucracy and is an example of how the church is a self-governing entity that emphasizes structure. This

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    John Paul Jones was born in the year of 1772 in Scotland. When John Paul Jones first started his career when he was at the age of 13. When John Paul Jones reached the age of 21 he was a captain of a ship sailing between West Indies and the British ports. When John Paul Jones joined the continental navy during the American Revolution he had great success in international waters. While John Paul Jones was the commander of a heavily armed vessel call the Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones gave one of

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    organization of the state and the rising of totalitarian regimes, which represented a threat to the principles of the individual that the Church defended. Popes Pius XI and Pius XII defended the rights of each person in their statements. These notions signified also a development in the idea of religious freedom. However, it would be Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council who would affirm clearly the stance of the Church on this issue. The totalitarian states claimed an ethical state that would

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    called, was an Ecumenical Council, (which means it affected the worldwide Christian community) of the Roman Catholic Church. It began on October 11, 1962 under, Pope John XXIII with over two thousand attendants (Hollis 23). The council ended on December 8, 1965, with Pope Paul VI presiding over the council due to the death of Pope John XXIII in 1963. The council consisted of four different sessions convening in the fall of the four years during which the council took place. Topics discussed and debated

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    4. Describe the implications of the Reformation for the Catholic Church down to today. The events of the church during the reformation and counter-reformation helps us see implications on what the church did and how its benefitted the church we know today. The Christian church is still divided today because of the effect of the reformation period, but still works to build unity. The reformation period encouraged many people to interpret the likes of Lutheranism and Calvinism in their own

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    John Paul Jones Thesis

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    John Paul Jones was born July 6, 1747 in Scotland. At age Thirteen he apprenticed with a merchant and went to sea. Over the next Fourteen years he was sailing on merchant ships. At the age of Twenty-one he was a captain of a merchant ship. In 1769 he had whipped a man to death. He was put in jail but later freed. In 1773 he had put down a mutiny and killed the ring leader in the process. He fled to America to avoid trial. Jones was in Philadelphia soon after the Revolution began, visiting a friend

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    John Paul, Sr. and Jean MacDuff gave birth to John Paul, on July 6, 1747 in Kirkcudbrightshire, Great Britain. He was the fourth out of seven children. His father was a gardener and his mother was the daughter of a Highlander. John Paul had a strong yearning to be on the sea since he was a young boy and he achieved that goal at a young age and made his mark in the while working on different vessels throughout his lifetime. John Paul's maritime career began when he was my age. He served as an

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