Sentences with phrase «catholic view of the church»

Not exact matches

The Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrews has told a prominent English Catholic theologian she can not lecture on Church property because of her views on gay marriage.

I'm catholic and believe in the religion's core teachings (namely the Gospels), but I've had enough of the ultra-conservative views of the church.

And keep in mind that Gerhard Lenski was of a very Protestant, almost Barthian, view that biblical religion is at war with the religion of communal - institution adherence epitomized by the Catholic Church.

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

But we can say, for example, that a religious, theological point of view can illuminate scientific research and can help to extract some coherent meaning... In the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of view.

Though they were generally regular, faithful members of Catholic services (until the Reformation), they seem to have viewed the worldly Church establishment in its wealth and power as corrupt.

In 1967, Anthony Burgess, author of «A Clockwork Orange,» described the pain of being an apostate: «It is with no indifferent eye that I view the flood of worshippers pouring into the Catholic church... I want to be one of them, but wanting is not enough.»

The Catholic Church endorses a very narrow view of birth control that 90 % of women in American (and 89 % of women who identify as Catholic, according to the latest Gallup poll) disagree with.

I avoid envying the believer, but it is with no indifferent eye that I view the flood of worshippers pouring into the Catholic church at the corner of my street.

«After the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent Roman Catholic Council at Trent, Catholics tended to narrow their view of the church to just the Roman Catholic church and leave it to the pope to tell them what the consensus is.

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

The pope's shortsighted views on gay marriage as being such a terrible scourge are more evidence that the Catholic Church is completely out of step with the events of the world.

As for the Church's social justice views — Allen mentions conservative criticism of Caritas in Veritate (while overlooking the many conservatives who applauded it)-- I wrote two separate columns for the Times of London online a) praising the essentials of that specific encyclical, and Benedict's economic and social justice teachings in general; and b) saluting Archbishop Oscar Romero, who I believe will one day be declared a saint, precisely as a champion of Catholic social justice.

But the orthodoxy of a Catholic theologian should not be suspect only because he does his duty honestly and weighing his own views, remaining in an open dialogue with the magisterium and prepared to leave the last word to the authorities of the Church, always lovingly adapting his individual under - standing of the faith to that of the whole Church.

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

In the first place it can be taken as axiomatic in the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocable.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

The interview, released by Jesuit magazines in several different languages and 16 countries on Thursday, offers perhaps the most expansive and in - depth view of Francis» vision for the Roman Catholic Church.

As one Roman Catholic writer was at pains to point out for the benefit of the pope in view of Khomeini's approach, the church does not live in the Middle Ages, and Muslims ought to be told so.

By refuses to evolve, the Catholic Church is as good as denying the possibility of continuing divine revelation which, when viewed in a certain light, is as good as saying God is dead to humanity for all intents and purposes.

And one of its themes in particular makes it timely, in view of the challenges currently facing the Catholic Church.

Catholic theology was generally based on the view that outside the church there is no salvation, though a gradual opening up towards others began after the «discovery» by Columbus of the New World in the Americas in 1492, and the opening of the route to the East after Vasco da Gama in 1498.

I am still not sure whether this was one among many examples of his famously weird sense of humour; was he offering an oblique parody of the prevailing Anglican (and secular) view of the Catholic attitude to sexual questions: that the Catholic Church, being run by ignorant celibate clergymen, is intrinsically hostile to all sexual activity, indeed to all sexual feelings of any kind?

His lecture is sprinkled with expressions such as «the church leadership argues that...»; «the Church maintains that...»; and «the Church's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic Cchurch leadership argues that...»; «the Church maintains that...»; and «the Church's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic CChurch maintains that...»; and «the Church's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic CChurch's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic ChurchChurch.

More than one - third say they value the pope's view on theology, and 3 in 10 say he has improved their view of the Catholic Church.

For 43 percent of Protestant pastors, Pope Francis has not changed their views of the Catholic Church.

Steinfels» recent book, A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church inAmerica, looks back longingly to what he views as the inspiring leadership of such figures as Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago and Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, and laments the era of John Paul II and Ratzinger, now become Benedict XVI.

Somehow, because of these two issues, the Catholic Church is now viewed as conservative.

We can rue and remember with nostalgia the time when «Catholic» meant generally one sort of writer, but in my view both the Church and its literature are far better off with far more practitioners making far more sorts of art.

In the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

The Ukrainian Catholic Church, more than the three Orthodox churches, has been influenced by the experience of Western Christians and thus takes a different view of the relationship of the Church to the ethnos or nation.

Some people are predicting conflict and maybe even a division in the Roman Catholic Church because of differing views...

As a former Catholic, I still have lots of issues with the Church and its views surrounding family planning and women.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

What the Jamesian view of religion as personal further obscures is the quintessentially Catholic notion of the church as a «sacramental communion» through which God's life penetrates ours.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

For 1500 years the Church, both Orthodox and Catholic had a synergistic view of the relationship between Grace and nature.

clearly signals Catholic theology's exposure to Protestant views of revelation in which the theme of God's Word, rather than Church magisterium and tradition, is given primacy.

The Catholic Church's view on sexuality is likely to be a key rhetorical, legal and moral battering ram against the freedom of the Church in the UK.

This document, in the view of some who have political knowledge, has done more damage to the Catholic Church in England than anything else since the Reformation.

The previous November, Pope Benedict had made his views on the position of the French Catholic Church regarding the threatened new legislation absolutely clear.

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

Nor would it be difficult to show that the mainline churches, Protestant and Catholic, that have provided the religious framework for the traditional morality, are in disarray, have declining income and attendance, and themselves are the objects of the same suspicion with which all established institutions are viewed.

If with this we associate the usual «catholic» view that a priest is especially assigned the responsibility of administering the sacraments of the Church and in particular the celebration of the Eucharist, we have a proper setting or context for the labor of proclamation.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

In the view of many thoughtful Catholics, the failure to address effectively the scandal of Catholic politicians who publicly reject the Church's teaching on the gospel of life is gravely undermining the credibility of episcopal authority.

Of course, many outsiders view the Catholic and Protestant churches, and even not - so - orthodox religious communities as «insular.»

The same God is the author of our natural intellect as well as revelation, as classical Catholic theology so often reminds us, so we should not be surprised if what the Church teaches makes wonderful sense also just from a purely natural point of view and people end up doing what the Church recommends, not because she recommends it, but just because it is the most sensible thing to do.

What is really sad is that you do not research and study Church teaching on indulgences.You are a Dr with a narrow view of Catholic Teaching.

In John Tombler and Hubert Funk's The Raptured: A Catholic View of the Latter Days and the Second Coming (the authors are professors at Seton Hall and the book bears the imprimatur of Bishop John Doughty), we have adherence to the return of the Jews to Palestine in the end time and a rapture of the Church.