Sentences with phrase «first vatican»

«No, I did not have to pitch the idea to the Pope,» laughs Jakub Florkiewicz, the co-initiator of the first Vatican...

The First Vatican Council (1869 - 1870) was held in part to strengthen the church against the onslaught of modem thinking, and did so by promulgating the Dogma of Papal Infallibility.

It is well known that the First Vatican Council defined the doctrines of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and of his exercise (within certain limited circumstances) of that infallibility with which God had willed to endow His Church.

The First Vatican Council's Dei Filius proclaims that it is an essential proposition of the Catholic Faith that the unaided intellect is capable of knowing that God exists.

... He was chiefly famous for calling the First Vatican Council, which declared the dogma of papal infallibility and papal primacy, although he was known for his infamous Syllabus of Errors which denounced democracy, pluralism, workers» unions and newspapers.

As the First Vatican Council taught:

The First Vatican Council in 1870 proclaimed that the pope is infallible when speaking ex cathedra (i.e. from his throne) and defining a matter of faith or morals to be held by the universal church.

According to the first Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church, a permanent constitution of the church had been conferred upon it by the Lord Himself.

The Postulata presented to the First Vatican Council in 1870 is an early description of this badly structured situation: «The present condition of the world has assuredly become intolerable on account of huge standing armies.

In our view, the delegates who dominated the first Vatican - sponsored conference on evolution, in 2009, as well as members of the American Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, have been all too inclined to support this kind of thinking.

Although even the First Vatican Council stated that it has pleased God to reveal himself and the eternal decrees of his will to the human race [Denz.

At this point Alistair McGrath proffers a point of divergence from the position presented by this magazine, Catholic Tradition, the First Vatican Council and St Paul to the Romans concerning the «provability» of the Creator from observation of nature.

O'Malley sees the establishment of the Synod of Bishops, in particular, as an expression of papal primacy, designed to uphold the work of the First Vatican Council.

In The Pastoral Office, printed for the private use of his clergy after the First Vatican Council, Cardinal Manning forecast that, if the Council was to be reassembled, its first duty would be to build upon the work already achieved «and to define the Divine powers of the Episcopate and its relation to its Head».

The last time it was an adequate frame through which to focus definitions of faith and morals, was the First Vatican Council of 1870.

I chose to concentrate on the differences between Acton and Newman in their response to the First Vatican Council.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

For if they did they would act like the Old Catholics after the First Vatican Council, even if they do not officially leave the Church.

All of this was certainly a very idiosyncratic way of reading the tradition of the Church, but we must not forget that the understanding of «dogma» was still in flux and not defined until sixty later at the First Vatican Council (1870/71).

Even those Catholics most devoted to the Pope must realize today that it is infinitely more important to tell the world credibly what is actually meant by «God» (which in former times could simply be presupposed) than to indulge in controversy about the First Vatican Council.

The Greek tradition, or the Eastern tradition more widely, knew of a primacy of honour for the Roman pope, as the first among bishops, or, in later terminology, among patriarchs, but it refused to acknowledge in that figure anything remotely like the pretension to universal jurisdiction and infallibility in ex cathedra proclamation that were defined as de fide for Roman Catholics at the First Vatican Council (1869 - 1870).

In the nineteenth century, the First Vatican Council taught a world newly enthralled by the «death of God» that by the use of reason alone mankind could come to know the reality of the Uncaused Cause, the First Mover, the God of the philosophers.»

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

Not exact matches

June 9, 2007 — Meets with U.S. President George W. Bush at the Vatican, the first meeting between the two.

The first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

First, is there really a secret dossier about a network of people inside the Vatican who are linked by their sexual orientation, as Italian newspaper reports have alleged?

June 28, 2011 — The pope sends his first tweet, via the Vatican's Twitter account, to announce the launch of the new Vatican website.

Pope Benedict XVI clicks on a tablet to send his first twitter message at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, December 12, 2012.

Though crucifixion on this cross only means physical death, not spiritual.The ankh was a symbol, not of death, but of life, and it is the ankh that was used by all Christians until the 4th century when the Vatican introduced the Roman cross for the first time.

and to know the vatican cut a deal with Catholic Hitler to protect themselves first while this was going on.

Leading Catholics, scientists and policy - makers will be attending The People and Planet First conference at the Vatican.

It's the first time an all - Muslim team has played a Vatican team, and both sides heralded the occasion as an opportunity to strengthen interfaith relations and have some fun playing the Gentleman's Game.

In 1797, Congress appointed an informal representative to the Vatican to assist Americans in the Papal States, the first of 11 unofficial consuls appointed.

The authoritative interpretation of Vatican II by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI has focused this evolution through the prism of what these two men of the council have called the New Evangelization, which is now the grand strategy of the Catholic Church for the twenty - first century and beyond.

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(2012 - MUSLIM 22.7 %, CATHOLIC 16.85 %) In the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, wrote: «For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken

But even as Vatican II, properly understood, remains an achievement of the first order, its immediate consequences were anything but.

Those questions involve the nature of the PRC regime; the doctrine and canon law of the Church; the impact of such an agreement on Vatican diplomacy in promoting human rights; and the Church's twenty - first - century mission in China.

In one of his first actions as pope, Francis created a council of eight cardinals, including Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, to offer suggestions on reforming the Vatican.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

The first survey of American Catholic attitudes on their church and pope was conducted in 1966, the year after the closing of the Second Vatican Council, by Louis Harris and Associates on behalf of Newsweek.

Marking a new era for the Roman Catholic Church in England, three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests in London on Saturday, the first to take advantage of a new Vatican program that makes it easier for dissatisfied Anglicans to enter Catholicism.

It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.

His The Spirit of Vatican II appeared in First Things and He is Not Here, his homily for the Mass for the repose of the soul of Richard John Neuhaus, and Words and Reality in «On the Square.»

This is upsurd and if the Vatican in any way agrees with this then they have absolutely no credibility in the modern world (not that they have much left in the first place).

I lived through Vatican II, receiving First Communion at the council's close in 1965 and Confirmation in 1967, as the new Mass and other innovations got their sputtering starts.

The cardinal's first steps were announced to the heads of the Vatican's departments during their meeting with the Pope.

The cardinals - who come from North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe - will first meet in October, the Vatican said.

The Vatican says it's the first time that a pope's official entourage has included interfaith leaders.