The priests hoped to resolve the issue when Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua in 1983. During the pope’s visit to Nicaragua, many Catholics in the country held high expectations of him. The Nicaraguan Catholic hierarchy hoped that the Pope would support them on the atheist approach used by the Sandinista government. The Sandinista government also fought for their belief to have peace. These people were hoping the pope would say some words of wisdom and of consolation to the families who lost loved ones to daily counterrevolutions.
Before the Mass had hit its midway point however, it became very obvious to the people of Nicaragua, who had come to see the Pope for these words of support and prayer(s) of compassion that he was not going to be offering any such things to them. The Pope instead told the people that they must “abandon your unacceptable ideological commitments” (Hoyt, 1996), showing his absolute opposition to the revolution and liberation Theology. The result of the Pope’s lack of support gave a boost to the counter-revolutionaries and there was an influx of battles shortly after. A further result of the Pope’s visit was that the tensions
He is certainly not a sheep that blindly follows everyone else. If he sees a problem or something he dislikes, he is not afraid to go against the grain. For example, he is displeased that the townspeople are told to give money to the church to help fix it and yet he sees golden candlesticks in the church. John would rather pray in the comfort of his own home than to go to the church where they beg for money but use it not on necessities, but on expensive things. It is clear that John does not like what the church has become which is why he refuses to baptize his third son.
He hesitantly obliged. Hitler had nothing but contempt for religion, and viewed it as a threat to his regime. He was raised a Catholic but did not believe in it. At first the Catholic Church was not alarmed by Hitler’s rise to power. In 1931 it lifted a ban on Catholics joining the Nazi party.
Why did Father Flynn resign if he was innocent? Why didn't he call Sister Aloysius' bluff? That he would resign because of a bluff is foreshadowed earlier in the movie, when Father Flynn gives a sermon about gossip. Father Flynn likens the influence of gossip to gutting a pillow and throwing its feathers to the wind. No matter how hard you try, you will never recover all of them.
As previously mentioned, mostly all sources refer to him, in some form or another, saying that this was “Gods Work”, or “The Will of God” (Robinson 312-316). He called it “God’s Work” to justify the war and relate it to them taking their churches back, however how could anybody truthfully call it God’s Work? If anything, it was the Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos’ work. The Italians had no personal involvement in this mess until Komnenos’ approached Urban for help. In order to inspire these people to move into action, Pope Urban II made astounding proclamations; proclamations that played on the people’s faith and devotion to God.
In Article 10, it states, “No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.” However, Martin Luther and John Wycliffe were excommunicated for their religious views. Martin Luther and John Wycliffe questioned the Catholic churches beliefs such as people paying for their pentanence and whether people must communicate with God through priest. Martin Luther raised a question that why the church services was written in Latin only. Latin was a language studied by the upper class only and lower class people did not understand Latin that forced them to listen to the pope. Martin Luther in On Christian Freedom wrote, “For Holy Scripture makes no distinction between them, except that those who are now boastfully called popes, bishops, and lords….” He said that Pope or bishop are no different than other people.
Father LaForgue, unlike the previous missionaries, does not lie to the Huron, and explains to them that being baptized will not cure the Huron of their sickness, but their prayers may be heard by his lord and savior Jesus Christ. Even after this shocking news the Huron still agree to be baptized, and LaForgue completes his mission of converting the savages to Christianity. At the end of the film we find out that fifteen years later the Huron are wiped out by the Iroquois anyway, and that Jesuit missionaries are no longer allowed to visit the land of the
Perpetua’s father begs her to renounce her faith and even brings her baby. She refuses all pleas for the sake of her religion, Christianity, and God. In Ignatius’s “Letter to the Romans,” he also shows his detachment from worldly values by claiming he does not need or desire any materialistic things. He looks at martyrdom as a chance for him to strengthen his relationship with God. He views the world as a prison, rather than the actual prison itself.
Because the American government openly supported the Christian Diem, the South Vietnamese were almost as against American involvement as the North Vietnamese by the time of the Tet Offensive. The Americans’ failure to keep the North Vietnamese at bay only added further tension between the United States and the people they were trying to help. Back in the U.S., protest was growing to the point that full engagement in Vietnam was becoming difficult. Opposition to the draft was an extremely crucial form of protest. Literally, “tens of thousands fled to Canada or Europe to avoid the draft” (Wills 29).