Sentences with phrase «catholic episcopate»
[16] Thus, Newman's high regard for his own bishop is transmuted into a regard for the real authority exercised by the Catholic episcopate, and for the occupant of the Holy See.
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«They must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»
Among the many important things said by the Holy Father, I believe the most important was this: «The Catholic faithful must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»
For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.
If the classic story line stressed the essential continuity of the normative «Carroll Church» from the American Revolution to Vatican II (while taking account of the break in that trajectory occasioned by the Americanist and Modernist crises and the interwar «Romanization» of the American hierarchy), the revisionist story line stresses discontinuity: between the colonial period and the church of the Revolutionary period; between the first, «republican» years of Carroll's episcopate and his later, «conservative» period; between the Carroll Church and the «immigrant Church» that followed; between, most importantly, the working - class «Catholic ghetto Church» of 1925 - 55 and the post-conciliar suburban Church of the 1960s and 1970s.
Never has the priesthood and episcopate of the Roman Catholic Church been so nearly inclusive of all races as it is in A.D. 1941.