My Visit to St. Peter's Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina

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Recommended: The development of the catholic church

The Catholic Church is the oldest major religion in the Western world. Littered with peace, love, and humility, along with violence, turmoil, and controversy this institution has seen, heard, led, and had influence over the majority of everything and everybody that there was in the last two millennia. This has included ordinary people, Kings, Queens, Generals, Nobleman, Royalty, and everything in between, and has endured since the beginning of the modern era, Anno Domini. They great spiritual and monetary machine created a powerful reign over the entire world’s Catholics, and remains so to this day. For the purpose of background for my visit to a Catholic Church, being Presbyterian, I did historical research before I visited. I believe this historical research is a good precursor to my description of my visit to St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Catholic Church of Jesus Christ history dates back almost two thousand years ago. Beginning in Jerusalem, a small group of Jesus’s followers who shared the belief in the resurrection of Jesus, their crucified leader, chose to conform together to spread the word of God. Throughout the next two to three hundred years martyrs, and preachers of the gospel began to spring up in every city in the Roman Empire, making the Romans very angry, and eventually leading to the exile of church’s members being branded outlaws. Because they did not choose to conform, and opposed Roman culture, morals, and religion, the savage Romans showed the wrath of their power, and early Christian church member’s perished. But, ironically, their persecution was the Catholic Church’s way of risen belief, magnifying the depth of their spiritual power, making the its progress constan...

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...e, I thanked Father Pat for letting me come, and told him I found the service very enjoyable. Throughout this experience, I learned many misconceptions about Catholics were simply not true. It has given newfound light on both the history of the Catholic Church, as well as the history of my own church and the similarities in between.

Works Cited

Thomas Bokenkotter. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. 1990. Assumption Church. Walnut Hills, Cincinnatti, Ohio.
Vanessa Urch Druksat. Gender and Leadership Style: Transformational and Transactional Leadership in the Roman Catholic Church. Boston University. Department of Psychology. 64 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. Copyright 1994. JAI Press Inc.
Kevin Whelan. The Catholic Parish, The Catholic Chapel and Village Development in Ireland. Published Online: 04 Aug 2009. University College, Dublin.

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