Sentences with phrase «church canonization»

Now that Evil Dead is finally a TV show, too, about the only remaining things on the agenda are statehood and Catholic Church canonization.

Not exact matches

To promote this interpretation of twentieth - century Russian history — and, by implication, Russia's future — the Church has undertaken a series of canonizations.

The process by which the Church recognizes that someone is in heaven is called canonization.

The terms «Venerable» and «Blessed» are merely titles applied by the Church to a particular individual during the process of his or her canonization (see question 59 above).

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.

When the Catholic Church celebrated the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII on April 27, 2014, the Church was not «making saints,» and neither was Pope Francis.

We learned in a previous post about the Canonization of Scripture, that in 397 AD, some of the church leaders decided which books to include in the New Testament.

The canonization of saints was also influenced by the dominant social policy of the Church.

Theconversation then moves to the beatification and canonization process, which began in 1970, highlighting the pressures that the family endured as the Church sought to examine Gianna's life in greater detail.

Refined through the sifting process commonly called canonization but now realized to have been merely a growing recognition of what was of worth, cherished in crisis after crisis when individual and even national life was at stake, accepted by the nascent church, which presently added its own documents and formed the Christian Bible, then carried by both Jews and Christians in their far dispersion, the Bible became the supreme book of the Western world.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

I thought about all the women saints again, particularly those who are Doctors of the Church: St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and — following her scheduled canonization this October — Blessed Hildegard of Bingen.

The canonization of Edith Stein is, we are told, «a Jewish text for a Christian pretext, an excuse whereby the Church can claim the same victimization which its own anti-Jewish practices foisted on innocent Jewish lives.»

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic Church poses a number of very serious challenges to living Jews, we who are still members of the people to whom Edith Stein believed she also belonged, even at her death in Auschwitz.

This is one of the reasons that the early church generally required «apostolic authorship» as a condition for books being accepted into the New Testament (I will write about «Canonization» later).

So the Canonization of Scripture by the church led the church to extend inspiration to the transmission, translation, and teaching of the biblical text.

By way of summary, Canonization is the process and standards by which the early church leaders selected which documents to include in the New Testament.