Sentences with phrase «roman curia»

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The Catholic Church in Ireland serves Catholics in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the Roman Curia, and the Conference of Irish Bishops.

The Roman Curia — the Church's governing body — includes a network of 5 pontifical academies and 11 pontifical councils, each of them charged with tasks ranging from the promotion of Christian unity to the cataloging of martyrs.

Reforming a dysfunctional Roman curia which is, by various accounts, sclerotic, lazy, factional, self - serving, secretive or actively corrupt will be high up on the to - do list, but so may a decisive and dramatic public gesture, signalling the church's sorrow and repentance for its crimes.

Given that some two - thirds of the Church's bishops and cardinals, a great proportion of the Roman Curia, and indeed many of the world's seminary professors, have studied in the Roman Pontifical universities, the STOQ project is seen to be crucial as away of educating the Church to understand better the contribution of the Church to science, the need for the Church's dialogue with the world of the scientist, and the insights the Church can gain from the findings of modern science.

Pope Benedict XVI has been in office for less than a year, and already there are rumblings of dissatisfaction (in some quarters of disquiet, in others of impatience), aroused by the — so far — slow progress of what everyone seems from the beginning to have assumed will be one of the new pope's priorities: the reform of the Roman Curia.

That was easily attended to, and it certainly needed to be done, for financial reasons — the last thing Albrecht wanted was for the preachers to provoke a reaction which would reduce his takings and upset his arrangements with the Fugger and the Roman Curia.

It was the one thing the Roman Curia and with him the Pope did not wish to happen; it would put half Europe into the hands of a single man and pose real threat to the political power of the Holy See, and of the Italian families so often associated with it.

The precise administrative procedures that guide the relationship between the Roman Curia and diocesan bishops can and probably should vary depending on circumstances that obtain at that point in the Church's history.

The Roman Curia is an instrument that serves the successor of St Peter.

It is quite possibly true that some of those who work in the Roman Curia may be insulated by their position from many of these painful realities, but the value of the service rendered by the Curia to the universal Church is not predicated upon the merits and talents of those who work therein.

Regarding the Curia, the Second Vatican Council taught as follows: «In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (Christus Dominus, 9).

As I once said to a prelate of the Roman curia who was complaining about theological dissent in the United States: «American theologians are not very original.

While the Pope can not be held responsible for the good manners or personal probity of every individual that works for the Curia, nonetheless Christus Dominus, one of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, clearly states: «The Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (italics added).

But we would go further and say that neither are they really interested in the balance of power between the Roman Curia and individual diocesan bishops.

«The value of the service rendered by the Roman Curia to the universal Church is not predicated upon the merits and talents of those who work therein»

... [from] the address Pope Benedict gave [the Roman curia] at Christmas two years ago... «As the first step of evangelisation... we must seek that human beings do not set aside the question of God,...».

Self - preservation is no monopoly of the Roman curia.

John shocked the Roman curia by throwing open the windows of the Apostolic Palace and letting in fresh air.

I am thinking not so much of the theological limits of the papal ministry, about which the Council spoke, as of the practical limits of his influence — above all on the Roman curia, without which no pope can lead the church.

An attempt was made to broaden the governing authority of the Church by giving the bishops more than their present consultative Magisterial influence; but, as the latest scandals reveal, that change was never implemented and the power remains solely in the hand of the Pope in union with the Roman Curia rather than with the Pope in union with the Bishops which would be closer to the governing structure of the Othodox Churches of the East.

Inevitably, the massive work of preparing for the council fell mainly to officials of the Roman Curia, who were uniformly entrenched traditionalists and designed a council that would produce none of the changes the pope hoped to see.

In their five meetings, the cardinals have discussed several hypotheses for streamlining the Roman Curia.

The first modification to Pastor Bonus, the 1988 pastoral constitution that regulates the functions and tasks of the offices of the Roman Curia, came on July 9 with the transfer of the ordinary section of the Administration for the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) to the Secretariat for Economy.

What the Pope needs is someone who knows the Roman Curia but is not of it, preferably an Italian, someone committed to reform, someone who can actually sweep the place clean.

When they met for their pre-conclave meetings back in 2013, the College of Cardinals focused much of their discussion on the dysfunctionality of the Roman Curia.

Obviously the Roman Curia bears a heavier responsibility because, as Pope Paul VI stated: «It is that instrument needed by the Pope for the fulfilment of his mission.»

The meetings at Augsburg multiplied over the following two and a half months The Electors, their deputies the theologians, the Emperor's men, the Roman Curia's men, the ambassadors and assistants from all over Europe met in small groups and big groups.

He was not alone in the Roman Curia, or among churchmen generally, in this stance.

At a first glance, such reforms will mostly be an internal and aimed at creating a better functioning Roman Curia.

In early July, in what was surely a striking and dramatic papal act, Pope Francis positioned one of his most important priorities as Pope — the reform of the Roman Curia — directly in the context of this unremitting combat against the Devil.

I suspect the employees of the Roman Curia have come to view the pope's annual Christmas greetings much as Seinfeld's George Costanza viewed Festivus.

I read that some say that the Roman Curia is an essential part of the Church's mission, or that a prefect in the Vatican is the sure compass to keep the Church from falling into light - mindedness — or that this prefect guards the unity of the Faith and grants the pope a serious theology.

In his frequently quoted address to the Roman Curia of 22 December 2005, Benedict XVI made the following remarks regarding the Second Vatican Council: On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture»; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

... Pope Benedict XVI, who has indicated the hermeneutical principle of reform within continuity... «wherever this interpretation guided the implementation of the Council, new life developed and new fruit ripened» (Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, 22 December 2005).

The generic character of John XXIII's original intentions for the Council, of course, was essentially responsible for much of the subsequent struggle between the Council Fathers and the Roman curia, the latter being accustomed to dealing with «live issues» rather than with general goals of development.

As African Catholicism now challenges its Euro - parent to rediscover the gift of faith that Europe once gave others, God or Nothing is also an invitation to meet a man whose service to the universal Church may not end with his current post in the Roman Curia.

The Pope's problems with the Roman Curia as a whole, however, take us further than we can go here.

To the consternation of some bishops here, members of the Board arranged on their own to consult with leading prelates in the Roman Curia and were greatly heartened by the understanding and encouragement they received.

As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle between traditionalists centered in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, and a core of progressive bishops, mostly from northern Europe.

The Roman Curia is also suspicious of the communities because they are a popular expression of liberation theology.

Pope Benedict's Advent address to the Roman Curia helps clarify how Catholics understand the anthropology of man:

In his 2012 Advent address to the Roman Curia, he tells us that the truth of mankind is found within the «blueprint of human existence.»

The discussion evidences a strange convergence between the Roman Curia and some local churches, many of which, as it happens, are on the peripheries.

These new cardinals will all bring their own perspectives to the consistory the Pope has convened to discuss reform of the Roman Curia.

Cardinal Rodriguez's words nailed the coffin shut on proposals to dismantle the Roman Curia that had begun circulating immediately after Pope Francis» election.

In an address that is hard not to read as a rebuke of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis delivered a searching reflection on pastoral ministry to a gathering of Italian bishops at St. Peter's Basilica this evening.

The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

Pope Benedict said in his Christmas 2006 address to the Roman Curia: «In a dialogue to be intensified with Islam, we must bear in mind the fact that the Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task.