Sentences with phrase «holy synod»

The Supreme Court of Illinois recognized that all parties agree that the Serbian Orthodox Church is a hierarchical church, and that the sole power to appoint and remove Bishops of the Church resides in its highest ranking organs, the Holy Assembly and the Holy Synod.

Indeed, the Illinois Supreme Court overlooked the clear substantive canonical violations for which the Church disciplined Dionisije, violations based on Dionisije's conceded open defiance and rebellion against the church hierarchy immediately after the Holy Assembly's decision to suspend him (a decision which even the Illinois courts deemed to be proper) and Dionisije's decision to litigate the Mother Church's authority in the civil courts rather than participate in the disciplinary proceedings before the Holy Synod and the Holy Assembly.

A spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens told The Times that the actions of the company will be discussed at a special meeting of the Holy Synod next month.

The Patriarch also had good reason to seek enhancement of his position as he jockeys for influence at the upcoming Great and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Churches in June.

In 1721 he created as a substitute a Spiritual College, later called the Holy Synod, completely subordinate to him.

The statement was issued at the end of a two - day Holy Synod where a sex scandal was discussed for the first time in its 92 - year history.

«Wherefore this holy synod -LSB-...] does not, however, have it in mind to give a complete doctrine on Mary, nor does it wish to decide those questions which the work of theologians has not yet fully clarified... «2

«Message of Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and all Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Central Committee of the WCC», IRM, no. 249, January 1974, pp. 125 - 129.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

In August 1973, Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the WCC, drawing the attention of the Committee to the statement of the Bangkok Conference on salvation.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church released a statement Wednesday condemning the film, its funding and its production.

actually the holy synod couldn't have done any better.

On the other hand, the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt could have taken a better position in condemning this act more strongly and wording their statement in a way that is more appealing to their fellow Muslim citizens.

Not exact matches

She was forging ahead, no matter what renewal of the synod arguments the Holy Father might be prompting.

Interestingly, the Holy Father used his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, to speak about the joy the gospel brings him and to provide a sort of programme that should guide the synod.

Cardinal Walter Kasper is proposing that the Synod of Bishops on the Family consider relaxing the Catholic Church's discipline on who can present themselves for Holy Communion.

And that is why the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East is such a disappointment, including the Holy Father's bland homily at the end of the Synod on October 25.

perplexing pope In «Between Two Synods» (January), George Weigel thoroughly summarizes the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family and the issues at hand for the coming Ordinary Synod of 2015, except for one pressing question: Where is the Holy Father in all the controversy?

What is significant is the amount of faithful Catholics who've expressed similar views about Francis and the Synod — notwithstanding the Holy See's reassurances.

Editor: One issue that's particularly grabbed the headlines ahead of the Synod is whether Catholics who have re-married following a divorce should be permitted to receive Holy Communion.

Furthermore, those who wish for «progressive» pastoral solutions will claim that the Holy Father's closing address to the Synod gives further support to their efforts: they will say he harshly criticized «conservatives» and even better was his approval of honoring the «spirit» of the law, over the law itself.

Misleading Headlines The recent Synod of Bishops in Rome was about the Eucharist in all its aspects, so maybe it was inevitable that pastoral problems surrounding marriage and Holy Communion should have been raised again, among many other questions.

Yet reading parts of the Catholic press in the UK, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Church was on the brink of relaxing her prohibition on the divorced and re-married receiving Holy Communion, even that this was a central issue at the Synod.

In addition to noting that the fact that the question was given such attention at the Synod and that those who were the strongest advocates were given special prominence by the Holy Father, they can reasonably claim that they have been given permission to proceed to use the «internal forum» for readmission.

Finally, the Letter urges that the Synod look to women as messengers of the truth of Catholic faith and commits the signatories to intensified prayer and service in support of the Holy Father and the bishops of the Church.

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

Extracts from last October's Synod on this subject can be found in our new Continuity and Development column; they are taken from the first 20 propositions presented to the Holy Father.

The Synod Fathers asked the Holy Father to make known to the People of God «the rich fruits which emerged from the synodal sessions and the recommendations which result from our common endeavour».

If there was one serene moment amidst all the ecclesiastical discord at the recent Synod in Rome, it was when Pope Francis canonized Therese of Lisieux's parents, commending them to the faithful: The holy spouses Louis Martin and Marie - Azelie Guerin practiced Christian service in the family,....

Fair enough, and those of us who have defended Francis against the idea that he is a revolutionary could respond, «Perhaps we have enough faith in the Holy Spirit and in Francis to trust that his inspiring pontificate — which we pray will be healthy and long — will bring about genuine, as distinct from false, «reform,» and will reaffirm the great truths of the Catholic Church, just as Francis did at this initial synod.»

The Definitio Fidei of the Sixth Ecumenical Council begins with the word hepomene: «Following the five holy and Ecumenical synods...»; and ends, as Chalcedon had done, with an anathema against innovators.