Sentences with phrase «catholics are at any given time»

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I am so sorry to read some of the hostility on this website I grew up in an Islamic country and with Catholic Priests and Nuns like Mother Threasa who worked very hard for so many very poor and homeless people the Priest were at times and bare foot with torn robes giving poor people all they had.

The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.

Such a commitment places Volf at odds with two formidable rivals in the contemporary world: (a) those ecclesial traditions (Roman Catholic and Orthodox) that insist that the «constitutive presence of Christ is given only with the presence of the bishop standing in communjo with all bishops in time and space» and (b) those postmodern cultural and social standards that are grounded in individualistic and consumer - driven life styles and that simultaneously relegate all religious experience to the nether regions of the privatized soul.

At a time when sermons at Mass were unusual — most teaching was done by way of comments when giving out the notices, or separate evening meetings, or through the innumerable and thriving Catholic organisations around the parish — this was a topic that could get neglecteAt a time when sermons at Mass were unusual — most teaching was done by way of comments when giving out the notices, or separate evening meetings, or through the innumerable and thriving Catholic organisations around the parish — this was a topic that could get neglecteat Mass were unusual — most teaching was done by way of comments when giving out the notices, or separate evening meetings, or through the innumerable and thriving Catholic organisations around the parish — this was a topic that could get neglected.

At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.

It is catholic in that it is knit together as a social process, with a message that will give life and wholeness to people of every race in every nation and at every time.

Anastasia Northrop, 33, who founded the National Catholic Singles Conference in Denver in 2005, has given considerable thought to why there are more single Catholics now than at any other time in history.

Ofili, who was 30 at the time of the controversy and raised Catholic, told the Guardian of the piece, «As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy.

One of the features the exhibition and its accompanying substantial catalogue made apparent is that Matisse, at the same time he devoted himself fully to all elements of book production, maintained a catholic attitude, assessing each book project in its own terms, always attempting to innovate within a given form.