Sentences with phrase «church have the courage»

I pray that we as a Church have the courage and vision to do so.

Not exact matches

another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.

I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom.

If only the Archbishops of Eastern Orthodox Churches had such foresight - and courage.

Thanks to Pell's courage in facing down the Australian forces of Catholic Lite, the Church in Oz today has a fighting chance.

God addresses to the Church the question whether it has the courage to undertake an apostolic offensive into such a future and consequently the necessary courage to show itself to the world sincerely, in such a form that no one can have the impression that the Church only exists as a mere survival from earlier times because it has not yet had time to die.

In terms of any formal training on the subject, however, I remember almost nothing beyond a persistent emphasis on the importance of courage — particularly (no surprise in a congregation that annually celebrated Luther's nailing of the 95 theses to the Castle Church door), the courage to resist those who would intervene in one's personal relationship with God.

All presiding ministers of the Church, from the Pope and the bishops down to the parish priests and chaplains, exist only so that there may be Christians, that is men and women who believe, hope and love, who bear their cross, who see light even in darkness, who firmly hope even against hope, men who have the folly and the courage to love in a loveless world.

We actually do not have sufficient hope and courage to develop the controversial points of doctrine in such a way that they can become intelligible and acceptable for the others, or at least need no longer be regarded as separating the Churches.

Will the bishops have the courage to use the possibilities provided by the Constitution on the Church with regard to the renewal of the diaconate?

They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an eternal life as God's gift and the hope of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world of his and its conditions according to the will of God.

Despite the shortage of priests the Church in central and western Europe ought to have the courage, and the clergy the generosity, to put secular priests at the disposal of the missions and of Latin America.

But are we really working for our Church of the future, not with wildly revolutionary methods, but with creative imagination and courage, patiently accepting also what has historically grown?

Only Audio Adrenaline had the courage to take what sure sounds like a Sunday School rhyme and put it to crunchy pop rock, which made it fairly appealing to 14 - year - olds at church camp too.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

The ecclesial reality of the Church is intricately interwoven with its life as a moral community — it has to constantly test its authority to be the moral voice in the world against its ability to respond with courage and conviction to the voices of the excluded, the voices from the margins.

A prince of the Church with the courage to abandon the shell of the institution and fight on principle, I thought, would have done better than Pius XII.

When we fail, the church needs to meet us in our pain, to enable us to stand even though we have fallen, and to give us courage to live, love and risk again.

I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the Church in this country without fear of self - criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice.

The seasons of our life and the seasons of the church year have «equipped the saints» with prayer, compassion, courage, strength, humor and other fruits of the Holy Spirit.

As frustrating as it is to experience this sort of patriarchy within the Church, we can take courage knowing that it doesn't have to be this way, that things can and will change.

The courageous Archbishop who celebrated Mass in the open air was the one who finally blessed the great new church — on a day of great joy and pouring rain with vast crowds attending — and who would later give that courage to the wider Church on his election to the Papacy as John Pachurch — on a day of great joy and pouring rain with vast crowds attending — and who would later give that courage to the wider Church on his election to the Papacy as John PaChurch on his election to the Papacy as John Paul II.

As word of his execution reached his friends and colleagues during the chaotic days at the end of the war in Europe, Reinhold Niebuhr praised Bonhoeffer's courage, but noted that he had been «too busy in the affairs of a militant church to state his own position in many books.»

The Christian must not only have the courage to represent a balanced eternal doctrine, but also to enunciate a contemporary slogan which he may, in certain circumstances, do in the name of Christianity, even though it can - not be pronounced by the official Church.

My wife and I have suffered greatly growing up in such an institution finally had the courage to leave a church that is all wrapped up in itself and find a more healthy place where we can be free.

There is still a deep reckoning that the Church and it's male leaders have not yet had the courage (with few exceptions) to take on.

The difference in settings is important because the Church faced the task of taking the words of Jesus to a particular audience and presenting them as the word of the Lord in a new situation.2 It took both wisdom and courage for the Church to assume this awesome burden of interpreting, but to have failed to do so out of an overwhelming reverence for quotations from Jesus would have ended the work Jesus began.

But there is hope for the church if a sufficient number of its people have enough wit and courage to sense the «signals of transcendence» in our time and to open themselves to their grace.

It is this conclusion that has been met with questioning among some reputable U.S. Catholic moral theologians and among a number of gay and lesbian Catholics in the U.S. Still, there is a growing movement in this country of support groups like Courage for Catholics, which are attempting to adhere to the church's requirement of celibate chastity.

Maybe this is the once - in - a-lifetime moment when they have plucked up the courage to confront some grave sin from the past, or perhaps they are returning to the Church after a long absence, or they are in some other spiritual need.

David after forty plus years in and out of churches hearing and reading even studying and dissecting (if that matters) For me, and that is the only one I ever speak for, if it is a song, a scripture that I may recall, a line in a movie or something one might share here, its only those that breath hope, light the way, give courage, inspire, and comfort to me as an individual that have meaning.

There have been times in history when the church shows incredible courage and speed in progress.

Reuters: Pope says Catholic Church must stand firm against «intolerant agnosticism» Pope Benedict said on Sunday that Roman Catholic leaders must have the courage to stand up to attacks by «intolerant agnosticism» prevalent in many countries.

He says that he wants to be persuaded of the Church's teaching and prays that, if and when persuaded, he would have the courage to act on his conviction.

At the same time, having received an office that is pure grace, we are called and equipped to lead his Church with assurance and courage.

If we disengage ourselves; if with courage and trust we release our hold on what we have been conditioned to believe was the immutable form of the church; if, to use a newer Testamental image, we lose our life, ecclesiastically speaking; then we may in fact gain our life as Christ's living body.

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

’12 Although «in the pluralistic society it can not be the socio - critical attitude of the church to proclaim one positive societal order as an absolute norm», 13 nevertheless, the church should have «the courage to formulate hypotheses suitable to contingent situations».14

The church must have the courage not to reduce the liturgy to what people think they want on the basis of superficial cultural patterns but to make of it what they really want at the deepest levels of their being.

One puts down the book with the impression that Campolo's sympathies lie with brave progressives like Brian McLaren and the rest of the «Emergent Church» movement, who have had the courage to «emerge» from old and worn - out things like Christian doctrine.

Michael, Piper has had the courage to offer some much needed criticism of the Evangelical Church:

Outside the church, a floral tribute of white roses from prime minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha carried the message: «The country has lost an extraordinary talent whose character and courage inspired us all.

But another year as a Church Times journalist has also led to encounters with acts of enormous humanity, compassion and courage.

When I self - published my book, I knew I had to do some promotion or I would sell zero copies, so I plucked up my courage, asked my pastor to allow me to do a book signing at the church (since it's a Christian non-fiction book) in exchange for donating a percentage to the church building fund.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.