Sentences with phrase «christian patrimony»

They are part of the Christian patrimony.

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Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

Although various pressures led to the watering down of the text on relations with the Jews, it affirmed the great «spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews» and expressed the Council's wish to foster mutual understanding.