In the Catholic Church, there have been many great canon lawyers who have contributed significantly to the improvement of the Church’s laws. One of those distinguished canonists was Raymond of Peñafort, O.P. who helped Pope Gregory IX compile all the cannons of the Roman Catholic Church into one book. This paper will briefly explore the life of Raymond of Peñafort as well as his contributions to canon law. Raymond was born sometime between 1175 and 1180 A.D. at Vilafranca in Catalonia near Barcelona. He belonged to a well-to-do family that was descended from the counts of Barcelona—who were, in turn, also related to the kings of Aragon. Raymond was sent to the cathedral school in Barcelona to be educated in the arts (i.e. the trivium and …show more content…
As part of his evangelical efforts to bring others to Christ, Raymond was able to help establish two schools in 1255 A.D. for missionaries to learn Arabic and Hebrew. These two schools were in the cities of Tunis and Murcia which, at that time, was part of a Muslim kingdom. Raymond also encouraged St. Thomas Aquinas to write his famous Summa Contra Gentiles which presented the truths of the Christian faith in terms that non-believers could understand and appreciate. Because of his relentless initiatives, Raymond was instrumental in helping to convert ten thousand Saracens. He also assisted in the establishment of the Inquisition in Catalonia. Raymond’s long life came to an end on the Feast of the Epiphany in 1275. His body was initially interred in the chapel at St. Catherine of Alexandria Priory. In 1601 A.D., Raymond was canonized a saint by Pope Clement VIII. His body was later moved from St. Catherine’s to the cathedral in Barcelona in 1878 A.D. Saint Raymond of Peñafort, O.P.’s feast day is January seventh, and he is the patron saint of civil lawyers and canonists. Raymond of Peñafort’s life is best “characterized as one of service—service to his order and to the
The book begins with a prologue, in which a letter is sent from a musician working for a cardinal in 1347. It is sent from the papal court of Avignon and is received by some of the musician's ...
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Examining the problems facing Father Rodrigues from a Christian perspective, then, is critical to the endeavor of understanding their significance to him and the Church at the time, and also to passing an ultimate judgment on the validity and worth of the decisions he makes, as many of us seem overeager to do. To that end, this paper will consider, in a Catholic frame of mind, and with attention to the opinions some noted Christian/Catholic thinkers would have held, the difficulties surrounding Rodrigues' apostasy, and his solutions to them. As all of the thinkers are themselves from the medieval era, it is not unlikely that Father Rodrigues, living in the 17th century, would have studied their works.
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The Medieval Inquisition started in France and Italy. During this time a group of people called the Albigensies lived in northern Italy and southern France. They had established a religion called Manichaeanism, which was the belief in two gods, one for good and one for evil.... ... middle of paper ...
Roles of the Catholic Church in Western civilization has been scrambled with the times past and development of Western society. Regardless of the fact that the West is no longer entirely Catholic, the Catholic tradition is still strong in Western countries. The church has been a very important foundation of public facilities like schooling, Western art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in religion. In many ways it has wanted to have an impact on Western approaches to pros and cons in numerous areas. It has over many periods of time, spread the teachings of Jesus within the Western World and remains a foundation of continuousness connecting recent Western culture to old Western culture.-
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On January 7th, 1894, Raymond Kolbe was born in Zdunka Wola near Lodz in Poland. He was the second of three sons. Raymond’s parents, Jules and Maria, raised their family in a Catholic environment, placing much value on Mary, Jesus’ mother as a religious example. A mischievous child, Raymond was known to drain his mother’s patience. One day she said
Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park Illinois in the fifth of October of the year 1902. At the age of four Ray's destiny was read when his father took him to a phrenologist who predicted he was going to have a career in food.
In the Catholic Church, priests are the moral authority. When one has questions with his faith he is taught that he can go to his priest for informed answers. In this paper I also hope to deal with how these priests failed their flock. They took advantage of men who came to them for help when in trouble and preyed on the little boys who came to the church for guidance. In addition to the tacit feeling that as a priest they will only do what is right, these men told their victims that they would deal with the moral implications.
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The Church was organised into a hierarchical system that sustained the Church’s stability and control over the people and lower clergy, by organising them into different groups. First there were the ordinary believers, the citizens of the kingdom who followed the Christian faith. Then there was the clergy, the members who devoted their lives to the church. Each group of the clergy was assigned specific functions by the clergy nobles to help run the Church competently. Amongst all the clergy associates, the Pope was at the top, he had the equivalent if not more power than the ruling monarch and was in charge of all political affairs and administered the clergy. He was able to dictate political laws and even comment on the Monarch’s decisions. Under the Pope, there were the bishops. The bishops directed church courts and managed cases correlated to the public such as marriage, wills and other public predicaments. Priests held religious services that consisted of sacraments, baptisms and the usual Sabbath services. The monks and nuns received manual labour that required helping clean the monasteries and assist the needy. Educated monks copied manuscripts of medieval and ancient knowledge in the Scriptorium. Finally...
Throughout this paper, we will look into the disappointing church corruption of the middle ages, more specifically, the unbiblical practices, serious problems, hypocritical popes, and finally, the people trying to fight the corruption!
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