Church History

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How the Carolingian Liturgy Promoted and Preserved Frankish Culture

The Carolingian liturgical reforms were a series of efforts by the Frankish rulers and their allies to standardize and improve the religious practices of their kingdom. They aimed to achieve doctrinal unity, harmony with Rome, and spiritual renewal. They were influenced by the missionary work of Boniface and the Gregorian tradition. The reforms began in the eighth century and continued until the ninth century.

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The Mysterious Abductions of Two Popes Who Opposed Freemasonry

This essay is about how Napoleon Bonaparte kidnapped two popes in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He wanted to control the Catholic Church and make it follow his rules. He took Pope Pius VI to France, where he died. He also took Pope Pius VII to Savona, after he made himself emperor and took over Rome. This caused a lot of problems for the Church and Europe.

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ANTI-CATHOLIC MYTHS AND LIES: #1 EMPEROR CONSTANTINE FOUNDED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Myth of Constantine’s Founding of the Catholic Church: A Historical and Theological Refutation

This story, most famously told by Jehovah Witnesses and Fundamentalist Protestants, came out of their necessity to support their lie that there was an apostasy in the early Church. It is their way to explain how their reform and late arrival is justifiable.

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ESUS, CHRISTMAS & EASTER ARE OF PAGAN ORIGIN

How Christmas and Easter Celebrate the Incarnation and Resurrection of Christ: A Response to the Pagan Origin Claim

It is a popular notion among anti-Christian polemicists and liars to state that the Gospel’s narratives about Jesus of Nazareth and the Christmas (Birth of Jesus) and Easter (Resurrection of Jesus) Holy Days are all of pagan origin; that they are not based upon real events, but, rather, are a myth themselves based upon much older myths and pagan celebrations.

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Creating Liturgical anti-Arian Polemic The Nicene Creed in the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Theologian

Arian and Gregory: How a Theologian Defended the Divinity of Christ

That the “Christusanrede” in the liturgy of St. Gregory functions as a way to portray anti-Arian theology is confirmed by other elements of the text. One interesting example of this is in the final prayer of the liturgy, the Εὐχὴ τῆς κεφαλοκλισίας.

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A Journey to Heaven: An Example of Neoplatonism in the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Theologian

A Journey to Heaven: How the Catholic Church Teaches Us to Prepare for Eternal Life

Nascent Christianity dealt with a number of growing pains, especially in how to express the relationship of the persons of the Trinity to one another. The difficulty in expressing this resulted in a number of major theological controversies, collectively known as the Christological controversies.

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The Role of Community in Shaping Art and Architecture: A Catholic Perspective

[the-subtitle] he Diet of Worms in 1122 brought a rather turbulent chapter in Europe’s history to a close. For nearly fifty years the question of where the authority of a bishop derives from, whether it comes from the pope or the emperor, had been the cause of civil war, excommunication and strongly worded letters between

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Remigius Dei Girolami, A Medieval Mediator for Modern Times

Civil War? n August of 2017, Jesse Walker wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times entitled: Are we Headed for a Second Civil War?[1] This article discusses warnings by conservatives and liberals alike that such an event could occur, some even giving a new civil war a thirty percent likelihood. Other columnists and pundits,

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