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what was the role of the roman catholic church

2007-01-14 08:10:24 · 11 answers · asked by Patricia W 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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to cover up pedophile priests and send them to difrent churches

2007-01-14 08:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 6

The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest organized body of any world religion. According to the Statistical Yearbook of the Church, the Church's worldwide recorded membership at the end of 2004 was 1,098,366,000 or approximately 1 in 6 of the world's population
The Catholic Church is a worldwide organisation made up of one Western or Latin-Rite and 22 Eastern Rite particular Churches, all of which have the Holy See of Rome as their highest authority on earth. It is also predominant in Latin America, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Philippine Islands. It is divided into jurisdictional areas, usually on a territorial basis. The standard territorial unit is called a diocese in the Latin Rite and an eparchy in the Eastern Rites, each of which is headed by a bishop. At the end of 2005, the total number of all these jurisdictional areas or Sees was 2,770

All Priests are not paedophiles!!!!

To teach the people about God and to become closer to him

God Bless You

2007-01-14 08:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1 1

Why not asked yourself, who will be the Anti-Christ? And where will he come from? How and when will the mark of the beast come about?

What role does the Roman Catholic Church play into the forthcoming events?

Here, "They shall no longer draw near me to serve as my priests, nor shall they touch any of my sacred things, or the most sacred things. Thus they shall bear their disgrace because of all their abominable deeds." Ezekiel 44:13

"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshipped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." Romans 1:25-27

2007-01-14 14:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by House Speaker 3 · 0 0

To proclaim the good news of the coming, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ since Pentecost of around the year 33. Technically, there is no such thing as the "Roman Catholic Church." That was an insult made by Protestants and Catholics simply adopted the insult. Although, I guess in Rome itself, you could say there were Roman Catholic Churches. It is merely the Church. To call it Catholic is to correctly understand that it is an adjective. Catholic means "all embracing," it also means, "according to the whole." The role of the Church is to proclaim the same message as was left to it by the apostles. This includes scripture, but also, as in 1 Timothy, the paradosia of the apostles also translated into English as Apostolic Tradition.

Tradition means to hand on. Apostolic tradition is only those things handed on by the apostles. It includes stories, beliefs, the scriptures, services, artwork (Luke painted) and practices. The Catholic Church still uses the first century services of James, Mark, Mari and Addai (followers of Thomas in India), and Peter. However, since they run for about 4 hours, attempts were made in the 200's and 300's to shorten them down to about one hour for daily use. If you are careful, and know where to look you can still see these original services used around the world, but it is rare because of the length. For most people, the closest they see to the first services is the Roman rite's Easter Vigil services with its "Light of Christ," hymn, its 10 old testament readings, 10 psalms, 10 psalm prayers, New Testament and Gospel readings, litanies, intercessory prayers, baptisms, confirmations, and of course the anaphoras and blessings. The Byzantine rite does on rare ocaision use the liturgy of James, the Copts tend to use Mark on the feast of the martyrdom of Mark in certain parts of the world. You probably have to go to India to see any of Thomas' services, or maybe Northern Iraq and Iran. However, the ordinary Catholic services, regardless of ritual group, are totally composed of scripture and are representative of the first century services. The Byzantine service still has the line to be used during persecution "the doors, the doors, in wisdom be attentive," to remind the door keeper to watch for Roman soldiers but to be attentive because what is going on inside is more important.

The role of the Catholic Church is to be a witness to the truth. It is the body of believers sent forth to proclaim the message and to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit until He comes in Glory.

2007-01-15 08:57:38 · answer #4 · answered by OPM 7 · 0 0

According to History the catholic church came into existence around the year 325C.E. as part of a program by Constantine the great to unify his empire which was divided by the apostate christians and pagans fighting back and forth with each other theese apostate christians were ones who had deviated from the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles as was predicted in Acts 20:29,30 1st Tim 6:3-5 also in the CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION no one man had primacy all was done by a body of Apostles and older men Acts 15:1-29 any way back to the historical part so to make peace the Emperor Constantine took bits and pieces from the pagans and bits and pieces from the apostate christians an formed the official state religion he said all would have to worship to put and end to the fighting this is the history of the church peter played no part in it as he had been dead for over 250 years before its start and has grown ever since then adding new teachings and curring political favor with various governments down to our day this is all historical fact Gorbalizer

2007-01-14 09:19:09 · answer #5 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0 1

I'm not sure why you were given a thumbs down, this is a decent question and deserves an answer.

The CORRECT answer will require you read about a thousand books, but I'll try to overgeneralize and at least give you an idea.

By the end of the first century AD, there were small Christian communities all over the Roman Empire, and all of them were influenced by their own cultures. It's only natural that all of them would develop their own set of beliefs and emphasize different priorities even though they're all still basically Christian in belief in Jesus as a messiah and acceptance of his teachings.

The main purpose served by the Catholic Church was to unify these diverging communities and offer an ultimate authority on scriptural interpretation. (The name "Catholic" means "universal".)

Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was also given earth-bound political authority and influence and became something that could no longer be accepted by thoughtful Christians. Rebellion against Catholic authority is one of the reasons why the Catholic church devised a number of ways of awarding itself "Divine Right" to rule among humans. Examples:

1) Jesus named Peter as the first Pope. Sorry guys, nobody at that time even knew what a "pope" was! The idea didn't exist for several centuries, and Jesus specifically conferred favor upon John, if anyone. Peter's job, by Jesus' own mouth, was "feed my sheep" (see John 21) not "lead my sheep". The only support offered by Catholics for this belief is modified wording of the gospels. Always be suspicious of anyone who does this, especially if they do it to confer power upon themselves.

2) Catholic interpretation conferred upon Mary something called "immaculate conception", meaning she was born in perfection. This was an idea created out of thin air. It has no support from any historical document. The Catholic Church then created a body of legends surrounding Mary that are all fictional.

3) Catholic pronouncements have the force of law, an authority created and maintained by the Catholic church. They think they can evict believers from the church for not agreeing with their interpretations (called excommunication) even though the Bible is explicit in saying that all unbelievers are welcome, and even when Paul advised the excommunication of one man in the Church of Corinth, he advised that the eviction be temporary. Membership has always been understood to be permenant.

2007-01-14 08:29:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

The mission of the Church is to proclaim and establish the Kingdom of God begun by Jesus Christ among all peoples.

The Church constitutes on earth the seed and beginning of this saving Kingdom.

With love in Christ.

2007-01-14 14:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1 0

Well, the Romans were pagan before they were Catholic. Political expediency saved the General's life (Constantine).

See Kudamah's answer above.

Constantine and his council single-handedly decided what books the Bible would consist of.

2007-01-14 08:49:02 · answer #8 · answered by Shaggy 3 · 0 2

I guess to dominate the world with its indoctrination of their version of Christianity.

Have u ever wondered.....If the Romans were the ones who crucified Jesus (they must've hated him), how did they get the authourity to give me his teachings?

Who gave them the authority to decide which books should be allowed in the bible?

How many paganistic practices have they incorporated in their teachings?

How do we know they are not mis-leading us?

2007-01-14 08:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by Nuwaubian Moor 3 · 1 2

The History of the Roman Catholic Church covers a period of just under two thousand years, making the Church one of the oldest religious institutions in history. As one of the oldest branches of Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox and some other churches are also "apostolic" in origin -- i.e., they also date their origins back to the founding of the Christian Church at the time of the Apostles), the history of the Roman Catholic Church plays an integral part of the History of Christianity as a whole. For the sake of simplicity, the term "Catholic Church" as it is used in this article refers specifically to the Catholic Church founded in Rome, and presided over by their governing Bishop, commonly known as the Pope.

The history of the Catholic Church is vast and complex, covering many different eras in which the Church was a key influence in the course of European and world civilization. Yet, the Catholic Church is basically unchanged in its substantial teachings and organisation since the dawn of the Christian era in the first century.

Over time, schisms have disrupted the unity of Christianity. The two largest of these involved the separation from the Catholic Church of Orthodox Christianity the (East-West Schism) and Protestantism (the Reformation) respectively. The Catholic Church has been the moving force in some of the major events of world history including the Evangelization of Europe and Latin America, the spreading of literacy and the foundation of the Universities, hospitals, monasticism, the development of Art, Music and Architecture, the Inquisition, the Crusades, an analytical philosophical method, and the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe in the late 20th century.
The Catholic Church's institutional basis is the the person and teachings of Jesus as described in the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These describe Jesus as an observant Jewish carpenter from the region of Galilee, who was both the promised Messiah or anointed one (Christos in Greek, giving rise to the title Jesus Christ) and son of God, in fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy. Catholicism thus considers itself a successor religion to Judaism with the Christian God and the God of the Jews seen as one and the same.
To Simon Peter, Jesus had earlier stated that he would entrust to him the keys to Heaven and that upon the "rock" (Latin Petrus) of Peter he would found his Church. The Catholic Church sees its history as beginning at this point, with the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter.

The office of universal ecclesiastical history is, as its name implies, to exhibit a well-balanced description of all phases of ecclesiastical life. The investigation and treatment of the various phenomena in the life of the Church furnish the material of which universal church history is built. It must first treat of the one true Church which from the time of the Apostles, by its uninterrupted existence and its unique attributes, has proved itself that Christian association which is alone in full possession of revealed truth: the Catholic Church. It must, moreover, deal with those other religious associations which claim to be the Church of Christ, but in reality originated through separation from the true Church. The Catholic historian does not admit that the various forms of the Christian religion may be taken, roughly speaking, as a connected whole, nor does he consider them one and all as so many imperfect attempts to adapt the teachings and institutions of Christ to the changing needs of the times, nor as progressive steps towards a future higher unity wherein alone we must seek the perfect ideal of Christianity. There is but one Divine revelation given us by Christ, but one ecclesiastical tradition based on it; hence one only Church can be the true one, i. e. the Church in which the aforesaid revelation is found in its entirety, and whose institutions have developed on the basis of this revelation and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. To assume equality among the various forms of the Christian religion would be equivalent to a denial of the Divine origin and supernatural character of the Church.

While, however, the Catholic Church is the central subject of universal ecclesiastical history, all other forms of the Christian religion must also be considered by it, for they originated by secession from the true Church, and their founders, in so far as each form can be traced back to a founder, were externally members of the Church. Some of these separated bodies still retain among their institutions certain ecclesiastical forms which were in common use at the time of their separation from the Church, wherefore a knowledge of such institutions is of no little use to students of ecclesiastical conditions previous to the separation. This is true in a special manner of the Oriental Christian communities, their liturgy and discipline. Moreover, such schismatic bodies became, as a rule, the bitterest enemies of the Church; they harassed and persecuted its faithful adherents and endeavoured in every way to induce them also to secede. New doctrinal discussions arose as a result of these secessions, ending usually in fuller and more exact statements of Christian teaching, and new methods had to be adopted to nullify the attacks made by apostates on the Catholic Faith. In this way non-Catholic communities have often indirectly influenced the development of the interior life of the Church and the growth of new institutions.

The vast material which, from these points of view, a universal history of the Church must treat, calls of course for methodical arrangement. Ecclesiastical history has generally been divided into three chief periods, each of which is subdivided into shorter epochs characterized by changes of a less universal nature.

2007-01-17 07:56:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Be more spicific! im 13 and im catholic.

2007-01-14 08:14:55 · answer #11 · answered by britts 2 · 1 0

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