The church has influenced various issues in our society. The issues which have been influenced are abortion, divorce, homosexuality, and poverty. But before we look at how these issues were influenced lets first look at some of the aspects of the church.
The churches mass is made up of two parts- the liturgy of the word and the liturgy of the Eucharist for the duration of which the Holy Communion is rejoiced. Mass is the center of worship that Catholics participate in. Catholics are supposed to attend Mass every Sunday and on a small number of important feasts days throughout the year. Mass is a crucial aspect in marriages, funerals, and other Catholic ceremonies and its celebrated every day in the majority of all churches.
The Church also has seven sacraments which are confirmation, baptism, holy orders, Eucharist, penance, matrimony, and the anointing of the sick. Catholic theology instructs that these signs, which are established by Jesus Christ, affect the devout benefit of the partakers autonomous of their faith or virtue of their minister. In matrimony the bride and groom are the ministers of the sacrament of matrimony, not the officiating priest. Marriage is a bond amid which two baptized persons cannot be broken. According to the teachings of the church, the reason for marriage is to promote mutual love and to produce children. It is possible for the church to announce, after careful examinations, that a marriage was invalid from the beginning. Annulment is the Catholic equivalent to a divorce.
Catholics show their piety in other ways besides sacraments and Mass. The rosary of the Virgin Mary is one way. In recent years, the church has made strict obligations to fast and abstain from meat on certa ...