in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. Cite this lesson Learn about excommunication in the Catholic Church. Study the types and origin of Catholic excommunication, explore the offenses, and review the impact and examples. ...
He was making war against no trivial human sins, but against godless and thankless quiescence, against getting used to happiness, the mystic sin by which all creation fell. He was preaching that severity which is the sign-manual of youth and hope. He was preaching that alertness, that clean...
The Roman Catholic Church considers angels a “truth of faith” and must be believed (CCC: 328). Angels were created “by and for” Jesus Christ to be messengers of His salvation plan for humanity (CCC: 331). We see angels in this role numerous times throughout the Bible, most notably...
the church’s composition is supposed to be from Jesus’s defining act of love on the cross where the flesh was made ceased. Anything other than that is satanic, for it has the things of humanity in mind, keeping active “just as it is” and calling that love. In other words, making...
Indulgence, a distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin. The granting of indulgences was predicated on two beliefs. First, in t
Excommunication, form of ecclesiastical censure by which a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the rites or sacraments of a church, and the rights of church membership but not necessarily from membership in the church as such. All Christi