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Essay on Rome Culture
Roman Culture begins with Rome it spread its authority and influence over a large part of Europe. Roman politics, lifestyle and culture were introduced to many areas. The Romans brought centralized ruler ship, a system of currency, roads and cities to Europe. Even to the end, through culture after culture that Rome conquered, it absorbed ideas from the conquered cultures and made them part of being Roman. Rome is a great place one is tempted to say a Mecca for pilgrims.
No city comes close to being as suffused with religious culture as Rome is with Catholicism. What has emerged over the centuries is unmistakably a culture of the papacy. Rome is an amazing place, as pilgrims are often heard to say. Rome traffic is still crazy, as it probably was in the days of Ben Hur. There are paradoxes everywhere, such as banks refurbishing churches for posterity after the faithful have abandoned them. Today, the catacombs seem far away in the suburbs. So much religion is determined by the culture. Rome has evolved into a culture of the papacy over 20 centuries resembling an ecclesiastical 'company town.' Several lifelong pilgrims, including church historian Fr. Robert Graham, Baptist journalist Wilton Wynn, and La Civilita Cattolica newspaper editor Fr. Gianpaolo Salvini, comment. Catholicism accords a singular homage to its temporal leader that no other mainline religion does.
Other faiths focus overwhelmingly either on their god or the founder or prophet who brought them into existence. But when Catholicism is mentioned, the first concept to pop into many heads, Catholic or non-Catholic, is not God or even Jesus but the reigning pope. While theology is clear on whose divine and who isn't, the emotional heart of Catholicism, if Rome is any indicator, is the papacy. Other religions' pilgrims usually convene where the founder was born or died or made his (it's always his) mark......
