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3 giorni fa · Hierarchy of theCatholic Church. The pope ( Latin: papa, from Ancient Greek: πάππας, romanized : páppas, lit. 'father') [2] [3] is the bishop of Rome and the visible head [a] of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, [b] Roman pontiff [c] or sovereign pontiff.
2 giorni fa · Eastern Catholics are a minority within the Catholic Church; of the 1.3 billion Catholics in communion with the Pope, approximately 18 million are members of the eastern churches. The largest numbers of Eastern Catholics may be found in Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and India.
3 giorni fa · Summarize This Article. Roman Catholicism, Christian church that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity.
- Christianity is an important world religion that stems from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus. Roman Catholicism is the largest of the three...
- As a branch of Christianity, Roman Catholicism can be traced to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in Roman-occupied Jewish Palestine about 30...
- In Roman Catholicism and certain other Christian churches, the sacraments are a key and essential part of the faith. In Roman Catholic teaching, th...
- Roman Catholicism is the major religion of nearly every country in Latin America. This can be attributed in large part to the lingering effects of...
3 giorni fa · Roman Catholicism - Reformation, Counter-Reformation, Church: The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th. This was the time when Protestantism, through its definitive break with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its ...
3 giorni fa · Its unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity are thought of within this elastic duality. In doing so, Roman Catholic ecclesiology has developed an outstanding ability to bring opposites together: a robust theology of complexio oppositorum (p. 133), i.e. unity of opposites.
3 giorni fa · Yves Congar (born April 13, 1904, Sedan, France—died June 22, 1995, Paris) was a French Dominican priest who was widely recognized in his lifetime as one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Best known for his work in ecclesiology (theology of the church itself as an institution or community ...
3 giorni fa · In his new book, 'What Makes Education Catholic?,' renowned religious education expert Thomas Groome of Boston College explores the history of Catholic education.
