contemporary catholic church

I used to attend a Catholic church as a child. Recently I had been attending an Apostolic Pentacostal church. I want to go back to Catholic but am looking for something more open and not so strict and like clock-work. Any ideas?

Yes! Some Catholic churches are more contemporary than others (often, but not always, the ones in newer suburbs are more contemporary). I recommend trying different Catholic churches to find the one you like best. Additionally, you can pray to the Virgin Mary often. She is Our Lady of Good Counsel, and can help you to find a Catholic church that you would feel comfortable with.

God bless!
Dave

2009-10-28 12:24:43 by christyanntexas

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Describe the development of Catholic Christianity subsequent to the exploration of the New World. How has it developed over the last four centuries and what unique roles has it taken on in the last 100 years? What’s the nature of the contemporary Catholic Church

A couple of interesting developments in Catholic Christianity in relation to the New World are:
+ The condemnation of slavery starting in 1462, 30 years before Columbus "discovered" America. It would take the U.S. another 300 years to catch up.
+ The development of the concept of unalienable human rights which were used in the development of the Constitution of the United States of America

I suggest you read the book "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. http://www.catholiceducation.org/article s/history/world/wh0101.html

With love in Christ.

2009-05-21 18:10:18 by Kay van

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Describe the development of Catholic Christianity subsequent to the exploration of the New World. How has it developed over the last four centuries and what unique roles has it taken on in the last 100 years. What’s the nature of the contemporary Catholic church?

I should think the information starting at this point in the link and continuing to the end of the page should probably be sufficient:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ the_Roman_Catholic_Church#Church_in_Amer ica

2009-05-18 13:49:20 by maxx

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This loaded question is a logical fallacy, like the old unjust leading question, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

This type of fallacy is called Plurium Interrogationum, which in Latin means "many questions" and is a question with a false, disputed, or question-begging presupposition.

For more information on loaded questions, see: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/loadques.htm l

+ The Dark Ages +

The "Dark Ages" is a derogatory term for the European Middle Ages used by Protestants to trivialize and demonize the Catholic Church of the time.

The term referred to a supposed lack of learning in the period. Actually, the Middle Ages were not really so "dark."

== Inventions of the Middle Ages ==
+ 551 Cultivation and manufacture of silk introduced into Europe by two monks
+ 555 Invention of water-mills
+ 601 Window-glass for churches and dwellings
+ 605 Bells for churches
+ 673 Organs
+ 706 Paper, made of cotton; 1270 Paper, made of linen
+ 600 The Gregorian Chant, and scale in music
+ 1089 Clocks with balance and wheels
+ 1199 Glass-staining, with the art of imprinting figures upon it
+ 1306 Watches
+ 1310 The mariner’s compass
+ 1450 Printing

Here is an article that also addresses learning, literature, medical advances, and art of the middle ages:http://www.catholicapologetics.net/dark_ ages.htm

+ The Inquisition +

I assume by "violence & torture" you mean the Inquisition.

Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. The Inquisition was actually an attempt by the Catholic Church to stop unjust executions.

Heresy was a capital offense against the state. Rulers of the state, whose authority was believed to come from God, had no patience for heretics. Neither did common people, who saw heretics as dangerous outsiders who would bring down divine wrath.

When someone was accused of heresy in the early Middle Ages, they were brought to the local lord for judgment, just as if they had stolen a pig. It was not easy to discern whether the accused was really a heretic. The lord needed some basic theological training, very few did. The sad result is that uncounted thousands across Europe were executed by secular authorities without fair trials or a competent judge of the crime.

The Catholic Church's response to this problem was the Inquisition, an attempt to provide fair trials for accused heretics using laws of evidence and presided over by knowledgeable judges.

From the perspective of secular authorities, heretics were traitors to God and the king and therefore deserved death. From the perspective of the Church, however, heretics were lost sheep who had strayed from the flock. As shepherds, the pope and bishops had a duty to bring them back into the fold, just as the Good Shepherd had commanded them. So, while medieval secular leaders were trying to safeguard their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls. The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.

Most people tried for heresy by the Inquisition were either acquitted or had their sentences suspended. Those found guilty of grave error were allowed to confess their sin, do penance, and be restored to the Body of Christ. The underlying assumption of the Inquisition was that, like lost sheep, heretics had simply strayed.

If, however, an inquisitor determined that a particular sheep had purposely left the flock, there was nothing more that could be done. Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and given over to secular authorities. Despite popular myth, the Inquisition did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense, not the Church. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.

Where did this myth come from? After 1530, the Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new heresy of Lutheranism. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it spawned that would give birth to the myth. Innumerable books and pamphlets poured from the printing presses of Protestant countries at war with Spain accusing the Spanish Inquisition of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World.

For more information, see:
The Real Inquisition, By Thomas F. Madden, National Review (2004) http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ma dden200406181026.asp
Inquisition by Edward Peters (1988)
The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen (1997)
The Spanish Inquisition: Fact Versus Fiction, By Marvin R. O'Connell (1996): http://www.catholiceducation.org/article s/history/world/wh0026.html

+ With love in Christ.

2007-10-22 21:04:45 by kloneme

Recent medical study found that about 15 percent of pregnancies ended in miscarriages during the first 20 weeks. The study further said, “The actual percent is probably much higher because most miscarriages occur by the 12th week, before they are even detected.” ( Journal of the American College of Ob- Gyn, Oct.2006).
If such embryos/fetuses are “persons” as some claim, does that mean that nature (or God) is a rampant abortionist? If such embryos/fetuses have “souls” as some claim, are those billions deprived of a heaven because they are not baptized?
Or might this scientific finding be a significant indication that such embryos/fetuses are less than human beings? Such was the teaching of the highly regarded Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He thought that before “the quickening” or perception of movement of the fetus , 16-20 weeks, it was not yet human, and that aborting it was a moral option. "
What possible value can the views of a Catholic theologian hold for Protestants or even for contemporary Catholic church hierarchy?

NEVER ANY CATHOLIC EVER HAS SAID THAT ABORTION WAS IN ANY WAY OK. What you have said that St thomas Aquinas said is libellous. The catholic church teaches and defends fierecely the rights of the unbornded and it has always been so. What the catholic curhc teaches and upholds and has always done so is that when God creates a human being God infused the person at CONCEPTION with a soul. This uniting soul and body in a composite being since inception. this my malinformed friend is the view of st Thomas Aquinas, a doctrine that has informed catholic and Christian theologu ever since. Thomism more than many others has always defended the human dignity of persons because of our created nature, and because of the presesence of that soul joint with a physical body that is effected by God at conception. Anything else is just wanting to confuse people. Definitely st thomas Aquinas had the limitations of his time, but even so, the trueths he arrived at are still valid today, and it's astounding the depth he had concernign theology and philosophy. He never advocated anything that was not informed by right doctrine moved not only by his privileged intellect but moved by the Holy Spirit. But I wwould really like to know, in what part of his writting did you find such quotation, I would like to examine it, really.

The Catholic church is a champion in the defense of the unborn, everybody knows that.


I think a girl here who wants to punch St Thomas, is actually confusing St thomas with St Augustine. St Thomas in his Summa theologica actually does defend the beauty of sexual love as what it is: A gift from God, beautiful and good. It was St Augustine that said that it was through sex that the original sin passed by, not st Thomas. St Thomas said that sex was beautiful and sacred, and it was because of that reason that God wanted us to respect it and enjoy it responsabilly in matrimony and love, not in licentiousness. God bless

2007-01-29 08:11:24 by dollparty.geo