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There are seven: Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the ...
The Four Marks of the Church, also known as the Attributes of the Church, [1] describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: " [We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." [2]
Feb 1, 1972 · Richard Greenleaf has done Latin Americanists a real service in gathering these twenty-three very enlightening and revealing selections on the story of the Church in the colonial period. They run the gamut of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and the Bourbon centuries, and close with a trio on colonial arts and letters.
Jan 1, 2007 · As Fr. Ratzinger states, the Catholic Church “recognizes a plurality of churches. It has, however, a different meaning from the plurality of Professor Schlink” ( Theological Highlights, 71). “Plurality” is quite different from the idea of “pluralism.”. It is possible to refer to several “churches” while maintaining a correct ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church are the results of medieval Christianity's split into two branches in 1054. This split is commonly known as the Great Schism or the East ...
Jul 16, 2021 · But don’t call it a comeback; it’s been here for years. For a relatively small subset of Catholics, Sunday Mass (or, for that matter, daily Mass) is always in Latin, and it includes many of ...
Sep 12, 2019 · The Roman Catholic Church is not the “original” or “true” church. It does not date back to the first century, or to the apostle Peter, as it claims to do. In fact it really began to develop properly from AD 312, when the Roman Emperor, Constantine alleged that he had become a Christian. He did so because he said that he had seen a ...
