What has the Catholic Church Changed?

Answer 1

Education -- St. John Bosco's work establishing teaching methods and schools for the poor. Also the work of St. Isadore in classification which is similar to modern data bases. Intellectual contributions from too many Jesuit scholars and philosophers to mention.

Human suffering -- Blessed Mother Teresa's work with the dying and abandoned in Calcutta. The various orders of nuns, priests, and brothers who serve the ill in hospitals everywhere.

Science -- George LaMaitre, the Catholic scientist who proposed the "Big Bang" theory. Albertus Magnus. Roger Bacon. Copernicus.

Literature -- J.R.R. Tolkien, GK Chesterton, Hiliare Belloc, Evelyn Waugh

The world would be much lonelier, sicker, and miserable if Catholics hadn't stepped forward and built hospitals, hospices, and nursing homes to help all those who suffer.

Literature would be poorer without the vision of Tolkien, the wit of Chesterton, and the brilliance of Belloc. Science, math, and philosophy would be worse off, too, if not for the contributions of Catholics.

All in all, I'd say the Catholic Church has done a great service to humanity by the changes it's made in the lives of the ill, the uneducated, the homeless, and the suffering of all faiths.

But I get the idea that wasn't the answer you or most of the people here were looking for.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church sometimes changes rules and regulations, what are known as "Church disciplines", to better serve the faithful. The Church has made such rules, so the Church certainly has authority to change them, just like any other church. What the Catholic Church, unlike Protestant churches, has never changed, because it cannot do so, is doctrinal beliefs. These truths were given to the Catholic Church directly by its founder, Jesus Christ. The Church is the steward of the truths of Christianity, but not the owner. Therefore the Church has no authority to change anything doctrinal, and it has never done so.

Answer 3

Some of the ways we do things have changed but the Church continues to teach what was taught by the Apostles who received it from Christ has not changed nor can it ever be changed because Gods word is eternal.

Answer 4

The Catholic church changed times and seasons. In other words, certain days of worship and celebrations or Holy Days that were ordained by God, the catholic church decided no one could observe. It forced the early true Christians into a non christian way of worshiping God. More specifically, they removed the original Holy Days and Sabbaths that was celebrated by the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, and celebrated by Jesus himself and are clearly specified in the Torah and new testament and replaced them with unholy days made up by man. It's all there. You will never find the early Christians celebrating Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines day, (all catholic holidays)etc.....They obediently followed the original feasts that God gave them to observe. They are a shadow if things to come and show Jesus Christ in all of them. More and more Christians are starting to celebrate the God given Holy days and Sabbaths. Christmas, with all of it's "giving" is one of the most selfish, vain holidays and it is such a stressful anxiety filled holiday. That's not God's plan and it is not God's Holy day. It is not even Jesus's b-day!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Do you mean in society, (like various social programmes), or in their practices (look up the Second Vatican Council)? The Catholic Church has changed a lot of things.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church does not believe the Bible. To the Catholic Church what was written by previous men (popes ARE mere men) is of equal or more important than the Bible itself. Therefore each writing changes their belief.

Answer 7

When the Council of Nicea took place, the Emperor Constantine
- Declared the Roman Sun-day to be the Christian Sabbath
- Adopted the traditional birthday of the Sun-god, & the twenty-fifth of December, as the birthday of Jesus;
- Borrowed the emblem of the Sun-god, the cross of light, to be the emblem of Christianity;
- And, although the statue of Jesus replaced the idol of the Sun-god, decided to incorporate all the ceremonies which were performed at the Sub-gods birthday celebrations into their own ceremonies

Answer 8

it has been in business for 2000 years of course it changed

Answer 9

"16:18. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.*

16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.* "

For those of you who cling to the past.
For those of you who chose to stick your heads in the sand
For those of you who do not want to grow
For those of you full of bitterness, read the words of the Bible and weep.

Answer 10

They decide to quit toturing people like they did in the Inquisition. That will be done by the USA from now on.