How Did The Catholic Church Influence Australia

The Church:

The Church in medieval times had a huge impact on everyone and everything around it, as everyone wanted to be right in the sight of God. The catholic church’s substantial influence on the people around it was mainly due to the services that they provided to the community and the hope of a better life that they offered to the citizens. The services that the Church supplied to the community mainly consisted of teaching the young boys life skills and providing education, healing the sick both physically and spiritually. The church also provided accommodation for those who needed a place to live and work as there were many jobs in the church including; the pope, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, curales, priests and many others. The

These organisations have evolved and grown with the people around them and have formed into the churches, groups and organisations we know today, such as the salvation army, world vision, Australian Christian churches, compassion, Australian Christian lobby, focus on the family and many others. the role of many of these organisations is to assist people all around the world and many of these organisations focus their minuses on the less fortunate and the third world countries. In this regard, the church has kept a similar role as that of the medieval period where their role was to help the less fortunate. Also, modern Christian organisations through their work provide jobs, educations a chance at a better life and many other important ministries which, if did not exist would make much of our world and the way we live foreign, through these works the modern Christian organisations we know today have kept their influence in the world and have even increased

But in our modern society you would think that they would have moved on from the thinking that men should have everything and women should be shielded and given less. But surprisingly some women in the modern workforce still get payed less for solely being female, in this way we have stayed virtually the same as in medieval times. In general men in medieval times were respected and given more rights than women, one of these rights being the right to vote or to have a say in the government. The pope was always male meaning that he always had a huge amount of power over the government whereas there were no high-ranking females in medieval society. Also, there was never a sole reigning Queen but there was always a King. So, in summery there were many segregations made between men and women in medieval times, that would not have been so intense if it weren’t for the church and the governments opinion on men and women and their role in medieval