Popes

Becoming a Pope is a very demanding challenge. Not only you are the priest of the whole Catholic Church, which has over one billion members, they have to maintain peace in the others churches. Pope Francis is one of those Popes who preserves and is currently the Head of the Catholic Church. He endured many hardships throughout his life. He started from the very bottom to now the top. A biography written by Elisabetta Pique about Pope Francis and a couple of websites tell his life and becoming a Pope is actually

“THE AFRICAN POPES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH” According to the Liber Pontificalis, three of the early Roman Catholic popes were natives of Africa. Pope Victor 1, Miltiades and Gelasius I. The Liber Pontificalis is a Latin book which was written as early as the second or the fourth century AD and it consist all the detailed records and biographies of the first 90 popes of the Roman Church, including origins, place of birth, and the length of their services (Davis). The informations which was

NAPOLEON AND THE POPE 1. Napoleon and the Pope was written by Edward Elton Young Hales. The book was initially published in 1962 and later there were numbers of translations to other languages. Hales is an English catholic historian born in England. He was an inspector in the British Ministry of Education in London in 1950s. Apart from the Napoleon and the Pope, the author has written many books related to the Catholic Church. Those include Pio Nono, Mazzini and the secret societies, The Catholic

Pope Silverius was a Pope during the Dark Ages in Europe, his date of birth is unknown, and he died in 537 AD after being banished on an island off of the coast. Silverius was the son of Pope Hormisdas, and was born before his father joined the Priesthood. Silverius was the Pope for a little more than a year, and was able to alienate the Empress Theodora, the wife of Justinian a Byzantine Emperor known for his reform of civil law. He was forced out of the papacy by a Byzantinum general because Silverius

In the same way we see another corrupt pope having the same problem when pope John XXIII quoted: “Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” Just in saying that shows you how easily persuade and corruptible he was. Woman weren't his only downfall being pope, but other corrupted sins such as: Simony. It started when Pope John wanted a third occupation after advancing in his military position and then getting his doctorate being

The Pope is the bishop of Rome and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope is one of the most important religious aspect to Christians from all around the world. This means that he represents Jesus Christ’s love and care for every individual. That is why the Pope 's priority is to get to know people, understand how they live, listen to their interests while sharing hardships and joy. In addition, “the Pope is also the Unifier of the People of God.” The Pope travels all around the world,

On the New York Times opinion page Room for Debate, a question was pondered “How Radical is Pope Francis?” The debate centers on the issue of whether or not Pope Francis is focused on spreading Catholic beliefs or on dispersing a liberal point of view. A full version of the text written on September 17, 2015 can be found at the following link http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/17/how-radical-is-pope-francis. The issue is debated by two scholars, Megan J. Clark and Randy Boyagoda and a journalist

statements from Source Document 1: a. “race chosen and beloved by God” The Pope is telling his listeners that God loves them and that they have been chosen by God. By invoking this message, the Pope is trying to convince the Franks to join the crusades by making them believe that it is their destiny given to them by God. b. “an accursed race, a race utterly alienated by God” In this statement Pope Urban is describing the Persians as a group of people that are not loved by God and

Pope John XXIII’s real name was Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli. He was born on November 25, 1881 at Sotto il Monte, Italy. His feast day is October 11. During 1921, Pope John XXIII was called to Rome to help improve the society of the Propagation of Faith. He was then nominated to be the archbishop of Areopolis. Immediately after this event he chose to focus his work to help fix any of the problems in the Eastern Churches. Then during 1953, he became the cardinal patriarch of Venice. Because of his works

state in medieval Europe includes the between the Christian church and the various people and other states in Europe. During the time they had hard and struggles times under the kings and pope they had. So after they had to recreate the age During medieval time Europe had a hard time. It was around the time of Pope Boniface VIII represents a horrible time in history with dramatic struggles that happen between the secular ideas of a growing number of people's groups and leaders against the a tough influence