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The Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree ratified by Pope Pius X on June 30, 1909, that stated that the literal historical meaning of the first chapters of Genesis could not be doubted in regard to "the creation of all things by God at the beginning of time; the special creation of man; the formation of the first woman from the first ...
John Paul II continued on the Catholic theology of the body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled the Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, [59] purity of heart (on the Sermon on the Mount), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible ...
Many of Weigel's concerns with respect to being able to understand the set of Wednesday General Audiences on the Theology of the Body have been addressed in the new translation, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body (2006, Michael Waldstein, translator). One of the drawbacks of the prior English-language versions is that ...
While Eastern Catholics respect papal supremacy, and largely hold the same theological beliefs as Latin Catholics, Eastern theology differs on specific Marian beliefs. The traditional Eastern expression of the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary , for instance, is the Dormition of the Theotokos , which emphasizes her falling asleep to be later ...
The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo. God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father , Son and Holy Spirit . While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex , the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects ...
The Catholic Church teaches that human life and human sexuality are inseparable. [62] Because Catholics believe that God created human beings in his own image and likeness and that he found everything he created to be "very good", [63] the Church teaches that the human body and sex must likewise be good. The Church considers the expression of ...
“It was my first time in a Catholic environment — I was very drawn to the beauty of the liturgy, but also to the Jesuit approach to education, which is care of the whole person, and the sense ...
The Roman Catholic Church links New Earth with New Creation (theology), seeing them both signified in Baptism. [7] Baptismal grace - in particular, the fruit of the Holy Spirit - is a foretaste of eternal life in Paradise , [ 8 ] which in turn is a foretaste of deified life in the New Earth on Judgment Day .