Pope Pius X Essays

“Are you crying because you want to do God’s will, or because you want God to do your will?” is a quote said to be spoken to Saint Frances of Rome when she was just eleven years old. Saint Frances knew she wanted to devote her life to God, but her family life got in the way. Saint Frances suffered in a way most people don’t, God made her wait to follow her vocation, even though she knew what is was from a young age. She would later learn that she had the right vocation, it was just not the right

In Game Of Thrones, A Song Of Ice and Fire, by George R. R, Martin. "Force may be degenerate, and supreme force debases completely it 's so clear. Incredible men are verging on considered terrible men." So goes the renowned explanation by Lord Acton. Seemingly, there are numerous topics in any work of fiction as protracted and rich as George R. R, Martin 's book , A Song of Ice and Fire, which has been viably balanced for TV as Game of Thrones. I would contend that primary theme which is the corrupting

Individuality In Chekhov’s “The Bet” What was the most lost on a wager? Money, time, or a favorite item? Anton Chekhov wrote a story about a bet and the what was gained or lost from it. Chekhov was a Russian writer and doctor and lived from 1860 - 1904. He married in 1901 to actress Olga Knipper who acted at the Moscow Art Theater. In his short story “The Bet”, Chekhov uses internal and external conflict to emphasize the importance of individuality. A banker and a guest at his party undergo a bet

Public ritual in Renaissance Florence involved many actors and took many forms.1 Rituals could be civic rituals performed by the citizens of the city, or be primarily concerned with one family or group of people, whilst being displayed and made available to the public.2 Some rituals were popular rituals were anyone could participate. Public rituals had various purposes, the most important ones being reproducing hierarchies which conditioned the organisation of power within the Florentine polity,

In Machiavelli’s The Prince, Machiavelli explains to Lorenzo De Medici that a ruler must have the characteristics of a lion or a fox, and must be willing to break their word when it suits their purpose in order to be effective. I believe that Machiavelli is correct, a leader must be beast-like to be effective, and willing to break their word for the greater good. In the next few paragraphs I will discuss how a Prince must have traits that resemble a lion in order to be effective. Then I will relate

Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, is a gift to Lorenzo de Medici, the future prince at the time. Machiavelli spent a very long time compiling information about the decisions rulers have made in the past to determine the best way to rule a kingdom. He took many examples from leaders like King Ferdinand, King Charles VIII, and Emperor Maximilian II. He used these examples to determine how a prince should act and what qualities they should have. According to Machiavelli's The Prince, the qualities a

Some men are just “normal”, not looking for power and wanting to live a normal life. That wasn’t Lorenzo de’ Medici, this was not a man that wanted little from the world, this was the real Don Corleone. He didn’t need to ask, he could just take. He was someone to be feared and even his enemies would not move against him and hope to live and those that did move against them would fail to eliminate him, neither the Pazzi’s or Ferdinand I had the ability to defeat him. He while he was a sort of Stateman

Renaissance, the reformers of the Reformation, and the Roman Catholic Church each had their view, and each believed they stood on the word of God in defense of said view of that authority. Much debate occurred, friendships were lost, lives were lost, popes asserted their power, kings pushed back, the world was changing, Protestantism was growing, and people were looking for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The Humanists of the Renaissance did not challenge the truth of Christianity, but instead

There are many different views regarding how a prince should rule, but in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, he advises Lorenzo de' Medici to rule with absolute power and to take extreme measures when necessary to maintain his power. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 with the intent of convincing Lorenzo de’ Medici to give him an advising position within the Florentine government. Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian writer and politician who lived from 1469 to 1527. In the dedication of his book

“She is not even a respectable woman. She does not wear women's clothes. She is dressed like a soldier, and rides round the country with soldiers.” She is Joan of the arc as described by the archbishop from the iconic play Saint Joan, a play written in the 1920s. At the time when the story was written, it wasn’t the best era for women. It was still the post-suffrage movement. Yes, women have just obtained the right to voting, to control their own body and sexuality. And women with jobs has increased

In 1195, I was born in the city of Lisbon, Portugal to a wealthy family. Back then I was called Fernando Martins. When I was fifteen, my parents sent me to the Abbey of Santa Cruz in Coimbra (during that time, Coimbra was the capital) to become a priest. After I became ordained, they told me to take charge of the hospitality of the Abbey. While I was in Coimbra, I met some Franciscan friars at their settlement dedicated to St. Anthony of Egypt. They told me about how some of their friars had been

In his farewell address, George Washington outlines the importance of religion to the maintenance of American ideals and, therefore, the new American government. Washington describes religion as a means to an end. In his view, all morality stems from religion. Because moral behavior is necessary for the survival of the American system, religion itself is the vehicle by which a moral society and government will be achieved. Washington’s argues for religion in American society from a principled and

In the Middle Ages, they had a strange way of calling their time period a perfect world. They lived in a time where Christianity was spreading the globe, art and music started to expand and Europe was becoming the strongest nation. Everything seemed to be right except for how people were living life. It was unfair the way everyone was separated into a class and all you did wrong was just be born into the wrong family. In the Middle Ages, there was an indefinite structure in society. You were born

Everyman is a play written by an unknown Author in the 15th Century. According to Gradesaver(2010) This play was translated from the Dutch play Elckerlijc in 1945 and Dr Logeman argued that Petrus Dorlundus is the writer of Elckerlijc but Arnold Williams simplified it to modern English. This is a morality play based on a Religion particularly Catholic “Everyman reminds the audience of the path to God according to the Medieval Catholic Church” eNotes (2015). Here I will be discussing actors within

Social criticisms are the starting points of many waves of reformation and societal changes. From the early Jewish prophets to the reformers of the Protestant Reformation, disruption to tradition has often resulted from a pronounced criticism that opened the floor to new dialogue. Jeremiah and Zwingli are two individuals who began the conversations that drove reformation. While centuries apart, Jeremiah's and Zwingli's messages have striking similarities in their condemning of the religious community's

Regina Carla L. Silva 2015-01293 The Handmaid’s Tale The novel is set in the Republic of Gilead which is formerly the United States of America. The name comes from a place from the Bible. It is a totalitarian, theocratic government. First, it is totalitarian which means that the government had control over every aspect in its citizens’ lives. This is why the government could dictate even the private lives of the people. It dictated how the handmaids spent their time, and how people interacted with

In the sixteenth century Reformation, Luther’s The Bondage of the Will was one of the biggest, most talked about topics around the world. Sadly, nearly 500 years after this sixteenth century Reformation, most people who benefit from this reformation have not even heard of this great doctrine. What is even more unlucky is that many have even given up the Gospel for a free will heresy. The question of free will was no ordinary question for Luther; his entire understanding of the Gospel of the grace

The beginning of the Middle Ages and the medieval period simultaneously marked the fall of the Roman Empire. What Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d’Arthur indulge in, to this extent, is constructing the beginning of new nations. Although the mentioned era was rather a quite a long period of time, it was also the time of quite radical and abrupt changes in the forms of written language and the forms that the written language takes on. Therefore, the foundational works mentioned above were

increasing power of the Seljuk Turks, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus sent a delegation to the Papuaienza in Italy and asked Pope Urban II help them against the Turks. Alexius I’s call was answered by the Pope and he called for a crusade to help the Byzantines and to conquer the city of Jerusalem at the French town of Clermont, where he held a Catholic Church council. Pope Urban gave a religious speech and promised them the Heaven for those who would go and fight in the holy war. This speech excited

Ninety-Five Theses were a list of the problem in the catholic church(Forster 3). As the Reformation started Luther he started to preach with lectures and teaching them the right way to follow Christ Jesus. “In 1521, Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X. He was ordered to appear before leading authorities at the Diet of Worms”(Forster 3). The Diet of Worms was sent to him commanding Luther to deing nay the many things he said about the catholic church. But he stood strong and said “I am bound by