Essays on Pope

During the Pope visit in Nicaragua, the podium was full as the people eagerly waited for the Pope to deliver his liberation speech. In a surprise, most of the reform minded Catholics in Nicaragua were hopeful that the pope was destined to utter words of peace to the people. The people had expectations that the Pope will convey messages that will support the poor in favour of the filthy millionaires. In his speech, he stated, “You peasants live in unjust and inhuman conditions but don't be tempted to rise in arms against your oppressors. “Contrary to their expectations, the Continue reading...

Introduction

The current perception about the importance of grades is quite baffling. The academic fraternity has placed so much importance on high grades and putting so much focus on grades, most of the students in various institutions are missing the purpose of education.
Good education is often quoted as a major prerequisite to a good job and consequently a good life. Education is not considered decent enough until one has gone to college and graduated. With such an understanding of college education importance, many students torture themselves with books hoping to get good grades to get into college (Pope, 14). Continue reading...

There are unconventional concerns within the midst of Pope Francis’ governance as the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic world. Pope Francis was reported to being elected as the 266th pope with St. Peter being popularly known as the first . The defiance to tradition was observed to be immediately exhibited right after Pope Francis’ election when he appeared before the crowd at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica wearing very simple white vestments . Various reports have disclosed other actions that allegedly breaks tradition include: choosing “to live in an apartment rather that the archbishop's palace, passed on a chauffeured Continue reading...

Medici played a significant role not only in politics, but also in the cultural life of Europe of their time. Like other wealthy and influential people, they ordered a work of art for the greater glory of themselves, their family, of the city and God. Under the influence of the new ideas of the Renaissance, Medici saw in the artists not only artisans. They were interested not only on a beautiful pieces and its content, but also on its creator. Not by chance, as an example of Renaissance patron relationship to the artist, Cosimo the Elder quoted words of Continue reading...

In “Advent is New Beginnings,” the topic revolves around Pope Francis, who exclaimed his famous remark with regard to homosexuality: Who am I to judge? Whereas said statement by Pope Francis has earned him critical acclaim from circles who perceive his progressiveness in finally changing the traditionally conservative direction of the Catholic Church on homosexuality, it is nevertheless an ambiguous one. Said statement did not include an express statement by Pope Francis stating a definite stand on homosexuality and at the same time, he did not place his leadership on an affirmative stance towards urging the entire Catholic Church Continue reading...

Abstract

Three distinct variables were theorized and examined in the parameters on the outcome of the productivity of the lactase enzyme. The assessment of the temperature, substrate composition and the pH were reviewed in this experiment. The pH values were recorded over time. The effect of the pH on the lactase production in addition to the qualities of the substrate identity and the temperature were documented. In consideration of the findings of the experiment, it was discovered that a pH between 5 - 7 is the most suitable pH for the production of lactase. In this lab report, the works Continue reading...

Francis Bacon was born in 1909 and he died in 1992. Bacon was a figurative artist, but his figures were always violently and bizarrely distorted. He often painted the figures of people that went to the pubs in London’s Soho district. He liked to paint people he felt were tormented souls, his twisted representations depicting their inner torment. Similarly, Bacon often painted twisted and distorted self-portraits.
Bacon’s work is often associated with surrealism and the Old Masters, even though he’s considered a contemporary artist. He borrows from surrealism and photo and film distortion. He is known Continue reading...

I believe that newly-elected Pope Francis will go down in history as one of the greatest Popes the Vatican has ever produced. He is intelligent, noble yet humble, and expresses love, compassion, and acceptance towards people within the Catholic faith, as well as those who practice other faiths. Even with these positive attributes, my feelings about Pope Francis are ambivalent, and I have some misgivings about his papacy.
He is a passionate man, and his views are as equally pronounced and passionate. I admire these qualities about Pope Francis. However, he has brought upon him, and the Catholic Church Continue reading...

The Meditation on the Passion

Jesus is seated on a throne in ruins engraved with Hebrew graffiti on the back, two hermits on his side are in a nearly symmetrical position. Since Renaissance this picture was considered as work of Andrea Mantegna because there was a readable signature of this painter. Only in 1945 (thanks to Murray Pease) it was finally cleared the identity of the author: under the signature of Mantegna it was possible to read, thanks to infrared analysis, the signature of Vit Carpaccio. The circumstances of the order and the original location of the work are still unknown. The date of Continue reading...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled.
In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific Continue reading...

The First Crusade

The first religious crusade took place in 1096 and lasted three years ending in 1099. The crusade was started by Pope Urban II in November, 1095 in response to the request of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who sought the help of the western volunteers to resist the invasion of the Seljuq Turks from Anatolia (RF, 2014). Soon an additional goal of recapturing the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land became the primary objective of the crusaders, who alongside also wanted to liberate the Eastern Christians from the bondage of the Muslim rulers. Though the seeds of Continue reading...

1 . Socrates suddenly awakes and finds himself in medieval France. At a bookstore he buys a copy of Montaigne and reads “Of Cannibals” and “Of Coaches.” Would he agree with Montaigne’s ideas? If so, with what would he agree? With what would he disagree? In writing your answer, be sure to describe Socrates’ (or Greek) philosophy and what was different in Montaigne’s time.
Despite the disparity between the early modern Europe and the ancient Athens, it is possible to find some affinities underlying the ideas of Socrates and Montaigne. However, if Socrates suddenly awoke and found himself Continue reading...

In Something to Believe In, Pope John XXIII explains the precepts of peaceful coexistence between men and nations. The article starts with a salutation to the whole humankind and states that peace can never be achieved or guaranteed. The Pope, further, states that the universal order, which has been discovered through science and technology, unveils the greatness of man. He adds that the scientific and technological inventions by man validate the “infinite greatness of God” who is the creator of the universe and the man. He stresses the greatness of God as the creator by quoting from the bible, Continue reading...

Historical events, particularly the very distant ones, can be viewed in different and contrasting perspectives. Interestingly, technological innovations of online games can be used to advance alternate perspectives on historical events. Online gaming has become so widespread that it has great power to influence one’s perceptions and can be a convenient route to provoke deeper thinking on alternate perspectives. Thus, the central focus of my thesis and argument is that video games like the Assassin’s Creed have the right to offer different interpretations of history, however absurd the notions advanced.
As an online game, the Assassin’s Continue reading...

Upcoming therapists start as supervisees. Supervision has three major players namely the client, supervisee and the supervisor (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). Without a clear guideline, relationships and agendas bringing together supervisees and supervisors can easily be confused (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). In line with this, it is paramount to spell out the tasks, roles and responsibilities of both supervisees and supervisors (Pope & Vasquez, 2010, p. 315). It is paramount to note that some aspects of supervision may be similar to some forms of therapy. In addition, the supervisor takes charge of the supervisee’s growth, as well Continue reading...

This paper seeks to define, compare and contrast a host of terms used in ethics and law.

Professional Association and Professional Regulatory Body
Many professions nowadays are governed by professional bodies and associations. A professional association is charged with the policy making role; a good example is the American Psychological Association (APA) (Pope & Vasquez, 2010). Likewise, a professional regulatory body is charged with the policy making role, but the difference between the two is very slim. A professional association makes rules policies, but serves the interest of its members. On the contrary, a professional regulatory body is answerable to the public and the government. A professional regulatory body protects the interests of the public from professional Continue reading...

Through lines of history, it can be traced that the Catholic Church has been an extremely powerful institution exhibiting tremendous religious and political power over the society. This institution has also faced opposition and has mutually opposed several other institutions which have tried to bring about reformations in the society. One such reformations that the Catholic Church clearly opposed was the propagation of Marxist ideas, as these opposed the religious ideas and beliefs, and threatened the authority of the church. Thus, religion and politics became dynamically intermingled (Dodson, 1986, p. 37.) In this case study, we are going to Continue reading...

The first crusade, which took place between 1096 and 1099, was an attempt to recapture the Holy Land (Jerusalem), which had been captured by the Muslims in 1076. The First Crusade had significant part in Medieval England. After the capture by the Muslims, the Christians faced a hard time paying pilgrimage to the city. The City of Jerusalem held great significance to the Christian community. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher commemorated the tomb of Christ’s burial and the hill of crucifixion. The Muslim soldiers made life very difficult for the Christians. The First Crusade was the successful Continue reading...

Today I will bring the topic that is called the hot topic of the town, and that is whether the Pope Francis’ actions taken to help the poor and in regard to capitalism is worth accepting or not.
First of all I would like to put some light on the Pope’s life. Pope Francis’ is a Pope of a new era, with new and revolutionary ideas in mind. He is a man with a simple life, loving to be friendly with people, kind. These qualities are making him different from the previous Popes. Pope Francis’ requested the United Continue reading...

A review of the relationship between the church and state, especially during the medieval period, gives us an insight on the tug of war that existed between the two institutions and how both tried to win over the lives of people during that period in history. Furthermore, the relationship of these two institutions gives us an idea on how to understand Western traditional of government as a whole. From the 11th to the 14th century, Europe was in an uneasy state. These were centuries marked by conflict and warfare both within the kingdoms and outside the borders that a Continue reading...

4.2.4 Fire Hazard Profile
The research was done in the Pope County to investigate the fire hazards and the possible causes, and the following results were obtained. First, the fire hazard is defined as the fire that starts in the residential places and puts people’s lives, the environment, the property as well as vegetations at risk of survival. It goes beyond normal fire, which burns all most everything and cannot be easily controlled once it spreads to several places. It starts from one place, spreads very fast burning all the properties and the people who may be around. Continue reading...

Introduction

The notoriety of Roman Catholicism across Europe figured prominently throughout history - best manifested by the rise of the papacy, headed by the pope and traditionally based in Rome, Italy. The papacy, which stood as the main governing body of Roman Catholicism, has since become embroiled in key political issues throughout its leadership. Despite its limited role in recent times, the papacy was once a center of political authority in Europe, with its influence greatly sought by European powers beginning from the time of Roman Emperor Constantine I up to the Reformation. This study seeks to outline how the Continue reading...

Awareness about Justice

The Video “Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013” is a tribute to Mandela by various religious comunities after his demise on December 5, 2013. The things I learnt about justice are:
- Justice can be achieved by peace and non-violence.
- Nations can be won without hating and seeking revenge.
- Mandela got justice to the Apartheid community and turned them into black majority to achieve multi-racial democracy.
- He joined African National Congress to provide justice to the Apartheid community for which he was sentenced to life prison.
- As an idol of peace that he was, he did not seek Continue reading...

Modern day Christian church community

Christianity started in the early Israel and Palestine in what was previously known as Levant during the first century. It spread throughout the near east nations and later on spread further to Europe where it became popular in the middle ages and spread worldwide during Europe’s exploration age and became the biggest religion in the world. Statistics show that about a third of total global population are Christians. In the early years of the first millennium during the great schism the church split into two major groups, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic. Later on Protestants Continue reading...

Before defining the leadership of the church, a question arises about its mission. First and foremost it is worth noting that the mission is God’s whose purpose in Christ is to reconcile all things to him. To fulfil this purpose, God uses the church in the world to spread the gospel, to evangelize, to proclaim the good news to the lost and embody in its corporate life the message of reconciliation. The church is to manifest God’s mercy and bring humanity to its purpose. In order for the church to achieve its mission in today’s contemporary Continue reading...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives his criticisms to Christianity. As a philosopher, he presents his school of thought and accuses Christianity as a dogmatic religion with fewer benefits to all the people. This paper critically analyzes his accusations. It does this by giving critical responses in line with the Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est.
Nietzsche accused the church of poisoning erotic love by converting it into a vice. He uses excerpts from the Songs of Solomon to be a degrading manifestation of conjugal love. To him, Christianity is the worst type of self-presumption Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

When Pope John Paul XXIII proclaimed there would be a Vatican Council in January of 1959, he set the world on its heels. John Paul had only been elected three months prior to his announcement and there had not been a council of this nature in nearly a century. Its purpose was for the Church to possibly embrace a path that much was much more in keeping with modern day society rather than relying on the previous trail of a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Held in St. Peter’s Basilica on October 11, 1962, the conclave hosted up Continue reading...

Introduction

Cardinal Leon-Joseph Suenens served as a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church from 1904 to 1996. Before his promotion to cardinalate in 1962, Leon served as an Archibishop of Mechelen-Brussel from 1961 to 1979. He was a powerful leader in the Second Vatican Council who advocated aggiornamento in catholic churches. Pope John selected Cardinal Leon-Joseph due to his commitment in the renewal of the church. He was a strong man who once saved the church from organizational chaos hence, gaining popularity among Vatican councils. Throughout his service in the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Leon had many influences towards Continue reading...

Millions of Catholics around the world received the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI to resign as the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church – a move reportedly precedented by Pope Gregory XII 598 years ago in 1415. He was replaced by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, who became elected as Pope Francis, the 266th Pope . The current discourse hereby aims to research on Pope Francis, a leader one admires. The paper would hereby provide explanations on whether the leader's style is transactional or transformational. In addition, the type of leadership characteristics that Pope Francis demonstrates would also be Continue reading...

Howe, John. “The Nobility’s Reforms of Medieval Church.” American Historical Review 2, no. 93 (1988): 317-39.
The story of the medieval church particularly of the 11th century is that of the church and the nobility. While Churchmen and women were of diverse background, the ultimate control of the Church between the 11th century and the 12th century lay in the hands of nobles of European society. When the European society begun getting rich in the 11th century as urbanization and development of states progressed, it was apparent that some reforms had to be undertaken. Like all sectors Continue reading...

-In his "Essay on Man", Alexander Pope offers a reasonable argument to, as he puts it, vindicate the ways of God to men. Compare the assertions he makes about man's plight and the state of society with the Christian worldview of the same. Pay particular attention to the final lines of the poem.
Alexander Pope’s seminal essay is probably one of the greatest poems ever written although it has also been criticised as being too rigid with regards to man’s independence. Pope acknowledges that man is suffering and his plight is great but he asserted that the Continue reading...

Pope Francis Assisi was an Australian Cardinal who was known for his effort in uplifting the life in the slums in Australia; his real name is Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Pope John Paul 11 appointed him as a Cardinal of San Roberto in 2001. He was then appointed as a pope on 13th March 2013 after pope Benedict xvi resigned from office (Benson 10); Benedict xvi made history by resigning from office because; a pope is required to serve the people until his death. When cardinals were gathered in the Vatican City to search for the successor of Benedict Continue reading...

Introduction

Power battles and fights have always been taking place that get had the capacity to curse the whole of the nation. As occurrence of this crusade history that can be viewed all through history, it is particularly manifested in medieval era. Particularly, battles for getting power created between the church of Roman and several other groups for example kings, non-believers of Christ, Muslims, and yet common individuals all through the medieval times. Consequently, Christian fighters as crusades were recommended to clash for their faith by the church pope to withdraw land that Christian non-believers existed on and abolish anyone Continue reading...

Middle ages witness many struggles between kings and popes towards gaining the ultimate power. Their main reason of such struggles was to bring strong control upon Europe and introduce their own policies and developments of reformation. For many centuries, monarchs had rule over the crown and church, whereas according to Catholic Church many had a belief that pope should be given power as being Christ’s representative on this earth. Roman Empire continued until the 5th century when it finally fell and power to govern was in the hands of Catholic Church, having dominant position in the Western Europe ( Continue reading...

The Renaissance produced a wide range of influential artists, many of whom are lauded as the most talented artists of all time. However, the long-lasting influence of the Renaissance lies in the successors of the most famous Renaissance artists, such as Bernini. Bernini came into his own during the ending years of the Renaissance, and his new sculptural and architectural techniques helped to usher in the Baroque era of art and architecture. Bernini was an Italian, and was fortunate enough to be born into an era in which his skill as an artist and architect was both encouraged and Continue reading...

Conqueror

A conqueror is a person whom has been able to acquire a certain piece of authority. Machiavelli analyzes how different people are able to conquer drawing a contrast between three people. This helps the audience to determine how various people rise to power and why different persons cannot survive on their own. Each of the three personalities below was a ruler of his own kind.

Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia is a legitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. This was the first pope who publicly acknowledged his children with a lover. Alexander used his influence in the church and in the government Continue reading...

Charlemagne, born on the 2nd of April 742 was the first Holy Roman Emperor and the first emperor in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire three hundred years before his coronation. While his date of birth is relatively unknown, it can be calculated from numerous sources and with the help of the Lorsch Abbey calendar .
Charles the Great was also said to have been born in eastern Frankland, specifically in a district known as Moingewi (modern day Belguim). He was the oldest son of his father, Pepin the Short and his mother Bertrada of Laon. Continue reading...

Introduction

The word Catholic Church was established in the year 110. However, opinions differ on the exact time that the church came to be established. The church was established on the doctrine of serving one God unlike other religious societies that had a number of gods such as the Greeks. It was organized under five patriarchs including the bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Rome. The Bishop in Rome was usually consulted in times of disputes. There were claims in Rome that Rome had connections with Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The Catholic Church at the time came to Continue reading...

Contrasting two famous pieces, Pope’s Essay on Man and Wordsworth’s The Daffodils, we contrast not only two very different literary traditions and two very different views on nature, but also two very different genres. Essay on Man, a kind of rhymed philosophical treaty, explores the nature of man in regards to his place in the universe. In particular, the first Epistle which will be considered in this work, deals with the man’s place in Nature. The form Pope chose facilitates his task, providing him with imagery to illustrate his points and add cogency to his theses. Continue reading...

John was born in 24th December 1166 to Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England. John spent most of his early life at Fontevrault as a magister. He was later taught by Ranulph Glanville, who was a leading English administrator. John spent some time with his elder brother, Henry the Young King. Here, he gained military and hunting skills which were very important in his later life as a king. John grew up as a hospitable, witty, genial and a generous man. Nevertheless, he was also known for his rage and sensitivity. In fact, he was known to Continue reading...