Sentences with phrase «catholic synod»

Bishop Mortimer Arias spoke of evangelism as the primary calling and responsibility of the churches and drew equally on the Lausanne Congress and the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops as evidence.

All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this week at the Vatican, is but one sign that the ties binding hearth and altar to one another can still be the subject of considerable concern.

Not exact matches

Unfazed by their track record, they are now warning that Francis will shred Catholic teaching in his upcoming Apostolic Exhortation on the Synod.

That «something,» I suggest, is the vibrant, New Testament - style faith found in the Catholic Church in Africa, whose leaders, at Synod 2014, challenged the leaders of German Catholicism to stand firm in the «faith once delivered to the saints» [Jude 1:3].

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

Even the dissidents in the ELCA are divided between denominational Lutherans and evangelical catholics, and the Missouri Synod, with its «biblical fundamentalism,» is not, for him, an option.

The document will be used as a guideline for discussions at a synod, a meeting of top Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis, to be held in Rome in October.

(not a Catholic Ultimate Truth ™ of course, but a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Ultimate Truth ™)

The latest episode in this long and continuing story was frst fully broken shortly after the Synod's decision in July by The Catholic Herald, who had a long news piece, an article by «fying bishop» Andrew Burnham (who had just returned from discussions in Rome), and an opinion piece by Damian Thompson containing «well - informed» speculation as to the shape of any agreement over some form of corporate solution to the Anglo - Catholics» problem.

Cardinal Walter Kasper is proposing that the Synod of Bishops on the Family consider relaxing the Catholic Church's discipline on who can present themselves for Holy Communion.

Through encyclicals and the statements of recent synods, human rights have become the centerpiece of Roman Catholic social teachings all over the world.

The Catholic Group in Synod, another conservative group, suggested it would continue to fight against women bishops.

That is not quite true: At the just - concluded Synod of Middle East Bishops, a cleric from the tiny group of Melkite Greeks, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, made such a statement on behalf of the Melkites, not the Catholic Church.

Written from Rome: Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage and the family and work to devise more evangelically dynamic responses to that crisis, a lot of attention has focused on issues of Catholic discipline: How does the Church determine....

No synod in modern Catholic history has drawn such worldwide press attention or generated such controversy within the Church (with the possible exception of the special synod....

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Apparently plenty, as Warren's speech — which he said he wrote from scratch the night before after yesterday's speakers covered his previously prepared main points — was «probably the first time ever the synod hall resembled a revivalist meeting,» tweeted David Quinn, an Irish Catholic columnist.

Hundreds of Catholic leaders gathered in Rome in October for an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

A synod brings a sampling of the world's bishops together to discuss a particular theme, in this case evangelizing those who have drifted away from the Catholic faith, especially in the Western world.

These are the themes we should look for at the upcoming Synod; and as we wait, we can pray for Pope Francis and have faith he will be able to strengthen the family, in harmony with Catholic teaching and total fidelity to God.

The general belief after the 2014 synod, both inside and particularly outside the Church, was that the Catholic Church is now gearing up, not for some kind of change in pastoral strategy, but for fundamental changes in its teachings (hitherto immutable) on important questions to do with marriage and with sexual morality.

In introducing the report, William Lazareth acknowledged the help received from the reports of the Bangkok Conference on Salvation Today, of the Lausanne Congress on the evangelization of the world, and of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on evangelization in the modern world.

About this Thomas wrote later, «In a speech on evangelism given by the British evangelical, John Stott, he criticized me for seeing too much convergence in the theologies of evangelism of the Lausanne Conference 1974, the Roman Catholic Bishops» Synod 1974, and the WCC Bangkok Consultation 1973.

So when one learns that the Synod of Catholic cardinals and bishops summoned by the same Pope has returned the conversation to the culture wars of the West — though with unmistakable overtones of capitulation on many of the bishops» part — it is, to say no more, a disappointment.

The Synod also asked for officially sponsored programmes of spiritual and catechetical formation, and these are indeed urgently needed so that priests, seminarians and lay people can build up the knowledge, confidence, faith and skills to become Catholic apologists and evangelisers presenting Catholic doctrine with clear reasons and without compromise.

Yet reading parts of the Catholic press in the UK, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Church was on the brink of relaxing her prohibition on the divorced and re-married receiving Holy Communion, even that this was a central issue at the Synod.

The Synod is proposing structures to support the new evangelisation, and yet the hierarchy of England and Wales recently dismantled its Catholic Agency for the Support of Evangelisation (Case).

LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD asked Dr. Royal to reflect on that experience in light of Synod 2015, which he will also cover for The Catholic Thing, as well as contributing to this exercise in «theological journalism.&rSYNOD asked Dr. Royal to reflect on that experience in light of Synod 2015, which he will also cover for The Catholic Thing, as well as contributing to this exercise in «theological journalism.&rSynod 2015, which he will also cover for The Catholic Thing, as well as contributing to this exercise in «theological journalism.»

Finally, the Letter urges that the Synod look to women as messengers of the truth of Catholic faith and commits the signatories to intensified prayer and service in support of the Holy Father and the bishops of the Church.

Robert Royal's daily reports from Synod 2014, posted on The Catholic Thing (of which he is editor - in - chief), were required reading for anyone trying to understand the dynamics of that Synod amidst the reportorial and analytic fog: which fog, it now seems abundantly clear, was not always generated by the media.

CofE critics of the General Synod decision say it marks the end of 2000 years of unity with the Roman Catholic Church on the issue of the top jobs.

In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing mission.

On Synod, Archbishop Kurtz Calls for Unity Between Catholic Beliefs and Pastoral Practice Joan Desmond, National Catholic Register

Other voting participants (priests, bishops and cardinals, known as synod fathers) include 114 representatives of national bishops» conferences; 13 heads of Eastern Catholic Churches; 25 heads of Vatican Congregations and Councils.

They include — in addition to Boe's own denomination — the National Council of Churches, the U.S. Catholic Conference, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, the Lutheran Church in America, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., and the Rt..

Fair enough, and those of us who have defended Francis against the idea that he is a revolutionary could respond, «Perhaps we have enough faith in the Holy Spirit and in Francis to trust that his inspiring pontificate — which we pray will be healthy and long — will bring about genuine, as distinct from false, «reform,» and will reaffirm the great truths of the Catholic Church, just as Francis did at this initial synod.»

At the synod, the bishops who pushed for détente with the sexual revolution pursued the old, pre-Leonine mode of Catholic engagement with the public square.

Under the directive of Archbishop Jerome Listecki, from a Synod Task Force, Seton was charged with re-imagining what Catholic elementary education could look like.

I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran but became Roman Catholic when I first married.