Catholics: After having read an article and some comments on some Dutch Domenicans, I have a question:?

Question

As I understand it, within the Roman Catholic Church there are different Orders, Jesuit, Dominican, but are there others? And what's the difference between them?

Thanks for the answers so far. I knew there were some others out there, but didn't know what they were about. It's going to be hard to pick a best answer because I'm learning something from each of you.
I appreciate all of your answers.

Here's the article I read which spawned this question. I got the link from a question here, but I can't find the question anymore, since I didn't answer it.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/09/dutch-dominicans-call-for-laity-to-celebrate-mass/

Oh, and I'm sorry your church is going through such tough times. It sounds like the Dutch are really going through some tough times, with churches having to close and such.
Just remember that there are crazies out there in all religions, and unfortunately that's how people see the whole religion even though it's not accurate.

Answer 1

The orders were founded when a person or group thought they had a good way of "ordering" their lives, a way which helped them to live as good Christians. If the Pope approved, they were allowed to found an order. Anyone joining the order would make a vow to live according to the rule of that order. Usually the vows would involve poverty and obedience.

Each order has its own emphasis. The Dominicans are known as a preaching order, the Jesuits are known as a teaching order, the Franciscans are known for helping the poor. There are contemplative orders such as Trappists that live apart from the world so that they can spend the vast majority of their time praying for souls.

Regarding these Dutch Dominicans: Unfortunately there is a lot of dissent in the Catholic Church today, due to modernism creeping into the Church. What they are teaching unfortunately is false and is not in accord with official Catholic teaching. Just thought you should know that in case you didn't.

Answer 2

I am not an expert but hopefully I can help a bit. Catholic priests basically follow one of two tracks: 1) a traditional parish priest and 2) a religious order. The parish priest says mass for the congregation, officiates baptisms and funerals, visits the sick, organizes the church picninc etc.

An order is more like what you might think of as a group of medievel monks. Some orders have boths monks and priests, some only one or the other.

For example, I went to a Jesuit university. The Jesuits started in Spain under St. Ignatius of Loyola. The Jesuits are commonly teachers and missionaries. Jesuits are considered quite "gung ho" because they still send priest to teach school in the jungles of Africa. In addition, it takes a minimum of ten years of study and teaching to become a full member. Jesuits are very well educated, for example, I heard an interview on the radio the other day with a Jesuit priest who is a professor at Georgetown. Jesuit priests say mass, of course, but it is not like a parish church. Most people do not go to a college campus for mass every Sunday, nor would you take your child there to be baptized.

There are other orders as well. Carmelite nuns cloister themselves, they feel that living in isolation helps them to find God. The Little Company of Mary runs hospitals and cares for the sick and the dying. Fransiscans still wear the itchy brown robes. Vincencians devote themselves to helping the poor. Trappist monks are well-know for brewing beer. There is an order of nuns in France? which makes china.

Answer 3

The religious Orders, narrowly defined, include monastic Orders (of which the largest is the Benedictines), mendicant Orders or Friars (such as the Franciscans or Dominicans), and Canons Regular (Priests living in a community attached to a specific church). All of these make solemn vows and say office in choir. In general they all have their origin in the Middle Ages.

They also include Trappists, Cistercians, Jesuits, Christian Brothers, Carmelites, Marists Brothers and Augustinians.

Each religious Order is an association of men or women who seek to lead a life of prayer and pious practices (each Order has a different set of rules related to purpose) and who are devoted often to some specific form of service. Members usually bind themselves publicly, or sometimes privately, by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to lead a dedicated life.

Answer 4

Yes, there are LOTS of different orders. They differ in rules they follow and the ministry work they perform.

They are organizations of laity and/or clergy who live a common life following a religious rule under the leadership of a religious superior. They do so for the purpose of imitating Jesus of Nazareth more closely, mainly but not exclusively (for every order has also its peculiar charism) by observing evangelical chastity, poverty and obedience, which are the three evangelical counsels of perfection (cf. canons 599-601). They bind themselves in Church Law to this form of Christian living by taking public vows. They may additionally profess to obey certain guidelines for living. Vows are to be distinguished from Holy Orders, the sacrament which bishops, priests and deacons receive, and thus religious are not members of the hierarchy.

Answer 5

There are many others, Benedictines, Passionists, Franciscans, Carmelites, Trappists to name a few. They differ in their principle ministries. Some are primarily teaching orders, some primarily missionary, some primarily contemplative, etc. They also differ in their modes of life, some primarily in monasteries, others more out in the world. And they usually have specific forms of prayer and certain other requirements that are traceable back to their individual founders.

Answer 6

Martin Luthur mentioned that salvation can exist external of the church however now not external of Jesus. Since then the christian religion has diverged into one million one of a kind denominations. Most contradicting this or that or intrepreting the scritpures to their possess ends (no surprise the un-believers mock us). The change among these types of and the catholic church is that the catholic church can hint its roots again to the apostles. Simeon Peter ("the rock on which I will construct my church"--Jesus) used to be the first pope (now not the roman emporer Constantine as a few protestants inply--they ought to study History). The Church (Catholic) used to be developed by means of Jesus. Jesus began the Catholic church. The protestant church buildings had been began by means of guys and ladies a few having "visions" others breaking away considering they proposal they had been bigger or considering of the corruption of one of the Clergy. Others desired to purify the Church they even known as the Pope the anti-christ. The Bible states no unmarried anti-christ; it says that any individual who does not suppose is anti-Christ. Satan is at paintings on this; to implore and aforism,"united we stand divided we fall" that's what the enemy is doing is dividing us so it is simpler to vanquish us. Jesus began one church, however I believe that the protestants must now not be advised they'll now not have salvation. When John got here to Jesus and stated, that there have been those men medication and educating to your identify and cannot we quit them; Jesus answered, "No if they're medication and educating in my identify allow them to be, if they aren't in opposition to us then they're for us".