peter patron saint

Usually the patron saint of a profession will be someone who practiced that profession during their lifetime. So as a fisherman, Peter was a good choice to be its patron. And the title "The Big Fisherman" comes from both his profession, his physical size, and his calling by Jesus as a "fisher of men", which he fulfilled as an apostle of the church.

2008-04-05 12:28:57 by Midge

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I had to use two of my "life lines" on the last two.

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(The Tony Blair answer is a guess, I'm from Australia and thought Blair might be a Scottish name.)

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SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE. I have been seeing some answers on here that deny the Catholics pray to saints. I was raised a Catholic and I know that in times past it was commmon to pray to Mary. There is a patron saint for lost things, for travel, for animals (pets), etc. You pray with the mention of Peter, "the first apostolic pope". The list could go on.

I want to know when --- by decree -- the Catholic church quit praying to saints. Did this actually happen or is it something that has "gone underground".

Don't give me the answer that you personally do not pray to saints.
That is good if you don't, however we are talking about the "church organization" not the individuals.
Why do you even try to communicate with them?

They are Dead!

Eccl 9: 5. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
angelsgurl ... you jsut typed a prayer to a saint... Don't telll me she is not a saint, because then it would mean you thought she was a god and that is bad.

It would be more accurate to say Catholics offer prayers of "petition" to Mary and the Saints. The phrase "praying to", when taken disingenously, implies a violation of the First Commandment.

The Church has not, in any way, shape, or form, stopped the tradition of praying to Mary and/or the Saints.

2006-09-01 06:34:47 by debydoo

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PARIS -- Al Fath Mosque is in a scruffy immigrant neighborhood not far from the neon-lit kitsch of the Pigalle district. On Friday afternoons, the mosque is jammed, and the overflow of worshippers spills into the streets.

Tourists who stumble on the scene reflexively reach for their cameras, struck by this unusual public manifestation of religiosity in a country where Christian belief has become passé.

In France and in almost every other European country, Christianity appears to be in a free fall. Although up to 88% of the French identify themselves as Catholic, only about 5% go to church on most Sundays; 60% say they "never" or "practically never" go.

But Islam is a thriving force. The 12 million to 15 million Muslims who live in Europe make up less than 5% of the total population, but the vitality of their faith has led some experts to predict that Islam will become the continent's dominant faith.

Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis, the dean of American Middle East scholars, flatly predicts that Europe will be Muslim by the end of this century.

George Weigel, a leading American theologian, frets about "a Europe in which the muezzin summons the faithful to prayer from the central loggia of St. Peter's in Rome, while Notre Dame has been transformed into Hagia Sophia on the Seine -- a great Christian church" will "become an Islamic museum."

Lewis and Weigel represent a trend among American thinkers who say they fear Europe's doom if it does not re-Christianize, and soon. Most European experts believe those fears are exaggerated.

France, with Europe's largest Muslim population, surely will be a test case.

A church in crisis

Little argument exists about the severity of the crisis facing the Catholic Church in France. In contrast with the vigorous (and masculine) face that French Muslims present to the world, a typical Sunday mass almost anywhere in France will feature an elderly priest preaching to a dwindling congregation of mostly elderly women.

"Mass is boring," said Odon Vallet, a religion professor at the Sorbonne. "The ceremony isn't very beautiful; the music is bad; the sermon is uninteresting. Mass is for people who have nothing else to do on a Sunday -- no sports, no hobbies, no shopping, no entertainment."

Islam is France's fastest-growing religion. But this is mainly a result of immigration patterns, not conversions. Most of the 4.5 million Muslims who make up about 7% of the French population are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from former French colonies in north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Global Islam is eager for converts. But in Europe, the situation is nuanced. According to Olivier Roy, a leading French scholar on Islam, Muslims in Europe would be happy for Christians to convert, while Christians merely want Muslims to become more secular.

While President George W. Bush proudly declares America "a nation of prayer," French President Jacques Chirac praises the virtues of French secularism. France developed a distinctly French notion of church-state separation more than a century ago in an attempt to curb the influence of the Catholic Church. Known as laicite, it allows all faiths equal status and ensures that all are equally divorced from the functions of the state.

Bruno Bourg-Broc, a deputy in the National Assembly and self-described committed Catholic, laments the erosion of the faith in France.

"We are a fundamentally Christian society," he said. "The landscape is formed of churches. It's part of our culture, our literature and painting." Whether people want it in the constitution or not, "we were formed in this way and should not be ashamed of it.

"The doctrine of Islam is to conquer and convert, and we must keep this in mind. I don't think there is a real risk here, but if it happens, it will be our own fault."

Hope for the future

Last year, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope and took the name Benedict, the patron saint of Europe, it was seen as a sign that he would refocus the church's energies on rebuilding the faith in Europe. The Vatican was heartened when a million young people turned out last August for World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, and heard the new pope urge them to rediscover Europe's Christian roots.

Some experts also are encouraged on Christianity's behalf if only because things can't get much worse.

"If you are the type of person who buys stocks and bonds, I'd buy Christianity," said Vallet of Sorbonne. "The price now is very low, so I think it has to go up."

Other analysts believe Europe's future is neither Christianity nor Islam, but secularism. A pragmatic reading of the numbers suggests that not only will Christianity never regain its dominant cultural role but also that churchgoers will be forced to recast themselves as minorities or subcultures.

"Who truly thinks that Benedict XVI is the future of Europe?" said Roy, the Islamic scholar.

Tourists who stumble on the scene reflexively reach for their cameras, struck by this unusual public manifestation of religiosity in a country where Christian belief has become passé.

In France and in almost every other European country, Christianity appears to be in a free fall. Although up to 88% of the French identify themselves as Catholic, only about 5% go to church on most Sundays; 60% say they "never" or "practically never" go.

But Islam is a thriving force. The 12 million to 15 million Muslims who live in Europe make up less than 5% of the total population, but the vitality of their faith has led some experts to predict that Islam will become the continent's dominant faith.

Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis, the dean of American Middle East scholars, fl

that question was asked before
and Islam will dominate the whole world someday

2006-07-29 17:40:40 by whynotaskthemoron

I posted this about an hour ago but i need more opinions. Thank You!

This is supposed to be like an article that would be in the newspaper during this time it is about when Martin Luther nailed the the 95 thesis to the doors of the Castle Church.

Martin Luther is a man who studied to be a lawyer. After being struck by lighting during a terrible storm he vowed to his patron saint, Anne, that if he lived he would become a monk. Luther quit law school and went in to monastery. His father was mad and tried to talk him out of it. Now he is professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg.

When the Roman Catholic Church was selling indulgences, which is granting penance for sin, to collect money to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome Luther thought that this was commercialized and wrong for Catholics to think sins could be forgiven with money rather than merit. At the beginning of the 16th century Martin Luther began the Reformation to change the religion.
Luther Nailed the 95 Thesis to the doors of the Castle Church on October 31st. Luther makes points such as Establishing what true repentance is, Only a very few can rightly distinguish between indulgences and true contrition, and The Pope’s graces come from God via spiritual gifting. The 95 Thesis contains 95 problems with the church today. Martin Luther made points in the 95 theses such as establishing what true repentance is and remittance of sin by the Pope is redundant. Martin Luther is hoping this will help change the religion.

it should go like this: (i copy and pasted and edited)

Martin Luther is a man who studied to be a lawyer. After being struck by lighting during a terrible storm, he vowed to his patron saint, Anne, that if he lived he would become a monk. Luther quit law school and went in to a monastery. His father was mad and tried to talk him out of it. Now he is professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg.

When the Roman Catholic Church was selling indulgences, which is granting penance for sin, to collect money to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome Luther thought that this was commercialized and wrong for Catholics to think sins could be forgiven with money rather than merit. At the beginning of the 16th century Martin Luther began the Reformation to change the religion.

2008-01-27 14:47:46 by Preppy Prep Girl