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	Western Church/Roman Catholicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The head of the church is the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, whose authority derives from the belief that he is in direct apostolic succession to St Peter, who is said to be the first Bishop of Rome.
		In response the Roman Catholic Church undertook a programme known as the Counter-Reformation whose decrees were formulated at the Council of Trent (1545-63).
		Among the major changes to church practice were the reformation of the liturgy so that Mass is said in the local language rather than in Latin, a willingness to enter into ecumenical dialogue with other Christian traditions, and acceptance of modern methods of biblical interpretation.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/west/westrc.html (1041 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Church
		The word Church (ecclesia) is used in its first sense to express whole congregation of Catholic Christendom united in one Faith, obeying one hierarchy in communion with itself.
		It is in this sense that we speak of the Latin Church.
		All to the west of this was the Latin Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09022a.htm (776 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Although this situation caused the western Church great trouble, it also placed the western Christians in a position in which they could not afford the weakness of disunion, so its persecutions at the hands of the Arians may actually have strengthened the western Church, It had to be strong to survive.
		Trained in law, as many of the other western churchmen, he was a masterful administrator, who used his family's not inconsiderable wealth, mainly in the form of fertile lands in Sicily, to endow the Church and to put its operations on a firm financial basis.
		It was a centralized church, headed by a pope who was secure in ruling the land on which his capital was located, and so it was less prone to religio-political strife than the eastern Church.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/western_church.html (2179 words)

	The Western Church and Missions Giving - RMNi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A church that is not sending and supporting missionaries is seriously quenching the Spirit of God, who is the Lord of the harvest.
		Various church communities have their distinctive—liturgy, evangelism, community, worship, emotional freedom, social action, missions, “miracles,” etc. A local church of whatever personality, without significant outreach, should question whether or not she should continue to exist.
		Missionary attitudes mark young churches where the memory of their origin is still fresh, but also old churches when they are shaken and revitalized.
	www.rmni.org /financial/givingdiscernment.asp (1881 words)

	19 Century Western Catholic Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Catholic Churches, with the full support of Rome, have made great progress in replacing the Western...
		Western Church, its variety is seen in the more than twenty other particular Churches, the "Eastern Catholic Churches...
		Western Christianity beginning with the 16th - century...
	www.shareonhousechurch.net /19-century-western-catholic-churches.html (191 words)

	How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
		Students, to the extent that they know anything at all about the Catholic Church, are typically familiar only with alleged instances of Church "corruption," cited repeatedly in tales of varying credibility from their high school teachers.
		He demonstrates that Western institutions, though often originating in Athens and Jerusalem, were developed into a Catholic culture in a process that accelerated from the early Middle Ages right up to the time of the Reformation and the Enlightenment.
		The rapid growth of the Church today — and its seeming center of dynamism in the South and East — brings new challenges of inculturation and new opportunities to transmit its thought and institutions.
	www.catholicity.com /mccloskey/articles/westernciv.html (1263 words)

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