Sentences with phrase «episcopal conference»

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The Catholic Church in Peru is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.
The Catholic Church in Argentina is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the Curia in Rome, and the Argentine Episcopal Conference.
Bishops in Belize are members of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.
Speaking at a press conference ahead of Tuesday's 2nd plenary assembly of the group, President of the Regional Episcopal conference of West Africa, Cardinal Theodore Sarr said Africans must be alert to prevent any negative indoctrination from the West to accept same sex marriage.
The creation among Cardinals of C8 has injected new life into the Consistory; for bishops, there needs to be a mechanism for direct access between each diocesan ordinary and the Pope, and vice versa, instead of via the episcopal conference.
The Catholic Church assumed it as an official teaching in the Episcopal Conference of Medellin in 1968.
In all this Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the episcopal conference, played a notable role.
Saturday's march called by the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua also drew tens of thousands of participants, including students, representatives of the private sector and opponents of the construction of an interoceanic canal.
3) Downsizing local diocesan bureaucracies and episcopal conference bureaucracies and putting increased resources into evangelization, especially among young people.
The episcopal conference is not a meeting of bureaucrats, board secretaries, curial personnel or the like.
Moreover, in 1970 the Associated Members of the Episcopal Conference of Eastern Africa, which includes the Catholic bishops of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, affirmed the declaration as a basis for parents» right to choose their children's education and for the right of free expression and association.
When Cardinal Heenan, as President of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, announced the ending of Friday abstinence in 1967 he said, «It is questioned whether it is advisable in our mixed society for a Catholic to appear singular in this matter.»
In November 2006 Cardinal Carmillo Ruini, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome and at the time the head of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), gave a keynote address to an international conference entitled «University and The Social Teaching of the Church» (Università e Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, Rome 17.11.06).
It includes fifteen statements from various episcopal conferences and individual bishops in Europe and North America, as well as the Holy See's «We Remember: Reflections on the Shoah,» with accompanying commentaries.
As the Episcopal Conferences had been — to put it politely — very reserved on the proposal, these new spiritual movements saw their hour had come.
Conscious of his responsibilities to the Church throughout the world, he made extensive use of the episcopal conferences mandated by Vatican II and of the Synod of Bishops which he himself had established during the Council.
Two recent documents from the Holy See — Pastores Gregis, the post-synod apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, and the Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops from the Congregation for Bishops — vigorously affirm the value and necessity of national episcopal conferences while refining and clarifying their proper role.
Vatican 11 also gave at least some institutional encouragement towards making this universal participation possible: the Roman synods, the national councils, the episcopal conferences, the councils of priests, the diocesan and parish councils of lay believers and the frameworks of many organizations.
Francis has sought to make the Curia more accountable while at the same time enhancing the role of local episcopal conferences, maybe swapping one problem for another.
It would be ironical if the Curia were to be emasculated and in their place, local episcopal conferences were virtually empowered to take over their function and their bureaucracy.
In recent months, bishops and episcopal conferences in different parts of the world have offered divergent, even incompatible interpretations.
Local pressures also come to bear more heavily on regional episcopal conferences because their views are being given more importance ecclesiastically and the internet helps to publicise them and highlight their differences if these emerge.
Now the Pope and the episcopal conferences are in a symbiotic relationship.

Not exact matches

He was on a conference call inside the Episcopal house when the crane fell.
I went to a memorable weekend conference at a Charismatic Episcopal church.
The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of America then raised a general call to all Churches «which accept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour to join in conference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of Chriconference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of ChriConference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of Christ.»
At the Edinburgh conference in 1910, Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal Church had keenly felt the need for a full discussion of theological beliefs in order that the Churches might find the proper mutual support in the modern world.
Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.
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Accordingly, all thoughtful and concerned Methodists rejoiced when, in the great Episcopal Address of the bishops of The Methodist Church to the General Conference of 1952, there was a forthright statement in contemporary terminology of what Methodists believe.
(«The Episcopal Address of the Bishops,» Journal of the 1952 General Conference of The Methodist Church [Nashville: The Methodist Publishing House], pp. 155 - 56.)
The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aConference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aconference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.
If so, could not a way be found for a representative or representatives of the presbytery to represent, in a bishops» conference, the episcopal reality that the presbytery is?
The Medellín Conference of Latin American Catholic bishops, oficially known as the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM II) took place in 1968 in Medellín, Columbia.
Eventually some 39 groups participated in funding the $ 175,000 project — ranging from the Old Time Gospel Hour (Jerry Farwell) and the Christian Broadcasting Network (Pat Robertson), to the U.S. Catholic Conference, the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ, with representation from virtually every part of the religious spectrum in between.
«To anyone who says that church is no place to talk about these issues, you tell them there is no place better,» Obama said at a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
In early April of this year, a group of students and others active in the Episcopal ministry at Michigan State University and I attended a Province V, essentially the mid-west region of the United States, conference for Episcopal college / university students and chaplains.
The world conference on faith and order so ably headed by the American Episcopal bishop, Dr. Brent, also continued its activity.
Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.
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The conference was held this year in Toronto at the DoubleTree Hilton, immediately adjacent to the construction site of the new provincial courthouse, and historic site of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the key locations of the Underground Railroad.
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