Sentences with phrase «catholic ecclesial communities»

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Ok, Iceman, which of the 30 - 40,000 ecclesial communities that call themselves Christian is Jesus» Church if you think it is not the Catholic Church?

not anyone from the Catholic Church or ecclesial communities can claim to be the Bride of Christ.

While such severe forms of ecclesial discipline are rare in Anabaptist or Catholic circles, and problematic when exercised (as in the case of the Catholic Church barring remarried persons from communion), they remain options that help define those communities.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

Non-Roman Catholic communities may possess some authentic ecclesial elements and be able to make fruitful use of them as channels of grace.»

Moreover, Vatican II teaches that the separated churches and ecclesial communities «derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church.»

Pope Francis's ecclesial mandate in the Catholic communion and his role in the world are clear; Patriarch Kirill represents just part of a global Orthodox community struggling to establish unity.

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

The Directory describes other communities as «Churches and Ecclesial Communities that are not in fall communion with the Catholic Church.»

(45) And again: «it is not that beyond the boundaries of the Catholic community there is an ecclesial vacuum.»

Interestingly, this paragraph does not mention Eastern Catholic Churches, but only «ecclesial communities.»