... With it came the introduction and implementation of changes that rocked every aspect of Church life. Lasting from 1962 to 1965 under the leadership of two of the most influential Popes to ever take up an office in the Vatican, the Second Vatican Council ensured that the Church would never be the same again. The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that ... XXIII wanted to address in order to make the message of faith more relevant to modern society as well as to debate and resolve centuries-old differentiations...

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... from Temptation and then being expelled from the beautiful Garden of Eden. Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" (1642) on the other hand, is not a biblical story, it's not really a story at all it's just a painting showing a gathering of military importance. Michelangelo's payment for his work came from the pockets of the Catholic Church unlike Rembrandt who's pay came from the pockets of the wealthy men whom he painted in this work. Michelangelo painted a story ... subdued, with only an occasional flash of colour but since the ceiling has been restored old age and years of smoke from church c...

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The Reformation: Restoration of the Gospel. The history of the Church is perhaps one of the rockiest histories of any institution in existence. In the Bible it is recorded to have officially begun in Acts, when the Holy Spirit, being promised to come by Christ, is thought to have ascended on the believers. Although it can be argued that Church's first roots lie in the coming of Christ, many scholars consider this gathering in Acts, the first ... news of grace. Perhaps the greatest example of this can be examined in the life of the Apostle Paul. In Paul's missionary journeys, he established a ...

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... marriage, or catholic women that have had abortions, or people that have committed adultery. How many have gone on with their lives, and the catholic community has not shunned or lost ounces of sleep. For many people, going to church on Sunday is a social gathering where they can say hello to friends or family, not to worship god. In other religions if any ... of these traits were disobeyed people would be exiled from that community. There are many issues in the world today, and unlike other right-wing extremist religions, Christians handle these problems differently. For instance ... ,...

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