Essays on Catholic Church

Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday,” is traditionally celebrated the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday which is the day Lent begins. Mardi Gras is most popular in the United States in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans first Mardi Gras can be dated back to March 3,…

Despite numerous challenges faced ever since the Enlightenment Period, the Roman Catholic Church still has a significant significance amongst the Roman Catholics, with the Pope being the highly-regarded figure. That’s why; the election of Pope is an elaborate procedure. The election is conducted during a…

‘You are electing a dead man’, which is one of Pope Leo XII’s quotes that showed his dedication to Rome. He wasn’t a legendary pope but he did the best he could in his short life plagued by illness. This will be explaining about his…

These vivid sentences are the word of God, quoted by the German reformer Andreas Karlstadt von Bodenheim in his 1522 sermon ‘On the Abolition of Images..’. Envisioning an actively cleansed and reformed church, Karlstadt draws from their ancient authority to strengthen his call to action….

Freedom of religion in America is something we take for granted today, but centuries ago people fought long and hard and even died horrible deaths for the right to believe what they wanted. During the sixteenth century, the most powerful authority in western Europe was…

Growing up as a practicing Catholic, waking up early to go to mass at 8 am on Sunday mornings and attending religious education classes after school, I have always associated evil with Satan of the Devil and have seen God as all loving and good….

For Waugh, Catholicism and emotion are intrinsically intertwined, their congruity perhaps best reflected in the Baroque art which they inspire- it is passionate and intense, often depicting biblical scenes at their climax to ensure maximum emotional impact. It therefore makes sense that Charles’s religious journey…

In the Classical Republicanism of John Milton, P.A. Rahe contests that it is “impossible to categorise Milton” (Rahe, 82). Indeed, this view is seen to be well supported by Milton’s vast use of variety of space and narrative within his Poems of 1645: He is…

Martin Luther was the man who was responsible for the start and growth of the Protestant Reformation. The music that he composed for his religious doctrine heavily outlined his concept of Christianity and expressed drastic differences between Lutheranism and Catholicism. These ideas are especially evident…

In 1517, Pope Leo X of the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther, leading to the emergence of new Protestant faiths. However the Reformation was not like other reform movements in history, which typically followed a liberal progression, the Reformation resulted in a more conservative…