Sentences with phrase «synod last»

Synod last year ruled that the issue of same - sex couples being unable to be married in church should be discussed across its seven dioceses.

Daniel P. Moloney says about the rumors — whether correct or not — he heard from the Extraordinary Synod last autumn.

Not exact matches

There was a brief diversion over Francis's brilliant environmental encyclical, Laudato si», in 2015 — but that didn't last, as the fall Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops convened in October 2015.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

This time, the Synod has made no provision for a fudge which would satisfy the Anglo - Catholics, who last time were given «fying bishops» — a provision enabling them to erect a church within a church.

Even the questions concerning the pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, and of homosexual couples — both topics of heated debate at last October's Synod of Bishops — are in the end based on theological foundations, and deal with the application of doctrine.

The motion, backed by General Synod during a summit in York last July, recognised the «need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their parish church».

There had been fears it could be at least a decade before a female member of the clergy was given a place in the Lords after the Church of England's General Synod voted in favour of woman bishops last month.

This synod - the last under Benedict - took a long and in - depth look at how the church can effectively present the person of Jesus to the contemporary world.

Last week the General Synod voted to pass legislation that mean females could be in the Church's top jobs by the end of the year.

Few of us can resist the lure of the tidbit concerning the ugly spectacle at the motel during the last meeting of the synod's finance committee.

In this time of discussion, I hope the bishops at the Synod on the Family remember the remarkable accomplishment of the last half century.

In the firestorm after last year's interim report, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, who will again preside, announced that the language group reports would not be made public — which led to another uproar in which synod participants, notably both progressives and traditionalists, accused the committee running the event of manipulation.

I went to Rome last October to observe what I expected would be external pressure and media spin on the Extraordinary Synod on the Family.

The General Synod voted in favour of new legislation that would allow women into the top roles last week.

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.

Endeavour Forum has also been inspired by the intervention of Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Guinea - born prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, to the Synod of Bishops in Rome on 14th October last year.

Those regularly attending a Sunday service in the Church of England dipped below three quarters of a million last year, despite a commitment from the General Synod to address the falling numbers.

Last week, the Eastern Orthodox Church, a communion of 14 autocephalous, national churches with roots in the Byzantine Christian tradition, concluded an historic synod on the island of Crete.

The situation is so bad that even the Bishop of Oxford John Pritchard, Chair of the Church of England General Synod's Board of Education, called last year for a limit of 10 % religious selection in Church schools.