Sentences with phrase «synod on»

Martin Pendergast The final report of the churchs extraordinary synod on family may have removed gay - friendly language, but great strides were made.

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

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 Extraordinary Synod on the Family issued an interim «relatio» yesterday.

It is surely providential that in the run - up to the Extraordinary Synod on the Family we have seen raised to the altars two great popes who both identified themselves with the family and courageously upheld the fullness of the Church's teaching on the family.

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.

According to CatholicNewsAgency.com, there was a problem in translation of the original report from the Synod on the Family; the phrase, «accepting and valuing their sexual orientation;» should have been translated, «accepting and evaluating [or weighing, considering] their sexual orientation.»

Cardinal Vincent Nichols held a press conference as he prepared to attend the Pope's Synod on the Family in Rome next month.

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.

In a recent article on events at Notre Dame, Michael Bradley offered some astute observations on the rhetoric of the LGBTQ movement, as did R. R. Reno a few weeks ago in a post on the Extraordinary Synod on the Family.

As we await the Papal Exhortation following the recent Synod on «The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith» Dr Dudley Plunkett encourages a humble realism concerning the state of British «outreach».

As the Synod on the Family opens this week, Catholics and other attentive observers should be careful about the way the media covers the unfolding events.

This book is attractive as it sets itself out as an informative guide to understanding the recent synod on the New Evangelisation; however, it in fact achieves elements similar to spiritual direction and on the whole is rather more formative than informative.

Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new Humanae Vitae moment on our hands.

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

A few asked if the event had something to do with Pope Francis's coming to the United States, or with the Synod on the Family.

I have a feeling that a lot of the present confusion was stirred up by the synod on the family.

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?

Did I simply imagine the uproar on the floor of the Synod on October 16, 2014, as bishop after bishop protested an interim report generated by Baldisseri and his colleague, Archbishop Bruno Forte, which did not reflect the discussions of the previous two weeks?

Those at the 2018 Synod on Youth should consider why John Paul II held such appeal for young people.

The recent Synod on the family has indeed partly focused its deliberations on this transition, particularly through the notion of the law of graduality.

The theme was especially relevent given contemporary challenges to family life and the upcoming Synod on that subject.

The Church opens the Year of Faith [1] with a Synod on the New Evangelisation at a time when, in England, there are a number of issues about the adequacy of theology programmes in preparing their students for the task of evangelising.

More specifically, Granados suggests that an entire chapter remains to be written in the Pope's theology of the body, namely «the transition between the fallen and redeemed states of mankind» (p540).2 The recent Synod on the family has indeed partly focused its deliberations on this transition, particularly through the notion of the law of graduality.

In the run - up to this fall's Synod on the Family, we've been hearing a lot from the German bishops.

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.

It seems incongruous that the leader of a tiny ethnic group that lectures Rome on the merits of priestly marriage would draft the final statement of a Vatican Synod on the Middle East.

The bishops asked him to speak to their Spring General Assembly, held in New Orleans June 10 - 13, as part of a broader effort to prepare for the upcoming Synod on the Family, which takes place this fall in Rome, and the World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Philadelphia in 2015.

All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this week at the Vatican, is but one sign that the ties binding hearth and altar to one another can still be the subject of considerable concern.

The Appeal sharply criticized paragraph 137 of the Instrumentum laboris for the upcoming Synod on the family.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella is the president for the Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, which Benedict XVI established in 2011, and was thus a key participant in the Synod on the same subject in October 2012.

The recent Synod on the New Evangelisation proposed to us: «This faith can not be transmitted in a life which is not modelled after the Gospel or a life which does not find its meaning, truth and future based on the Gospel» (57).

This insight, though commonly cited, including in the Instrumentum Laboris for the 2012 Synod on the new evangelisation, remains however somewhat nebulous.

The preparatory document for the 2018 Synod on Young People ignores the many young Catholics today who are hungry for tradition and beauty.

George Weigel makes this as one of the key ideas which the recent Synod on the family has thrown up for resolution.

Coming after the Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and the Family, and preceding this year's follow - up, it had a special appeal for many.

If the forthcoming 2015 Synod on the Family can begin to grapple with that issue it will be doing the Church and wider society a great service indeed.

The theme was especially relevent given contemporary challenges to family life and the upcoming Synod on that subject.Here our very own David Edwards provides a quick su...

In 2014, the midterm report of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family recommended that pastors emphasize the «positive aspects» of cohabitation and civil remarriage after divorce.

Not surprisingly, the 2014 - 15 Synod on the Family has only brought on more disapproval.

The document is Pope Francis» official response to the two major meetings of bishops he hosted at the Vatican to discuss marriage and family issues — the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014 and Synod of the Bishops in 2015.

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

And we have a brilliant analysis of the effects of a contraceptive culture in Mary Eberstadt's Adam and Eve After the Pill (Ignatius Press), which is must - reading for every bishop attending the upcoming synods on the family.

The document, based on two Synods on the issue, was eagerly awaited by the world's 1.3 bn Roman Catholics.

Not exact matches

He told the newspaper «many members of synod have indicated that they do intend to come out of the Minster to speak to us on Sunday.»

John Paul II's Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1985, and Benedict XVI's insistence on a «hermeneutic of continuity» rather than rupture have both helped to recover a «deeper reception of the Council» as the Synod's final report requested.

Most of the students, I among them, knew almost nothing about him, hut he was quickly to become a central figure in theological controversies that were raging within the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod» controversies centering especially on the seminary in St. Louis.

Unfazed by their track record, they are now warning that Francis will shred Catholic teaching in his upcoming Apostolic Exhortation on the Synod.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.