Sentences with phrase «vatican calling»

Middle East Must Keep Its Christians, Says Vatican Calling for Scrutiny of Islamists» Funding Hannah Roberts, The Tablet

Is the Vatican called St. Peter cathedral?

The Vatican called the document, one of the most politically and policy focused documents it has ever issued and is «unprecedented in its forensic look at what governments should be seeking in the global compacts».

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CNN confirmed with a Vatican spokesman that «the new pope took the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi because he is a lover of the poor» and the new pope should be known as Pope Francis, not Pope Francis I.» CNN also quotes reporter John Allen as calling the choice of name «stunning» and «precedent - shattering.»

The Second Vatican Council wasn't about us, but about Christ's call, lovingly offered, to fulfill our potential on his terms, in and through the moral and spiritual teaching of his Church.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

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.

I'm always a bit confused by people who call themselves «Catholic» but reject the position of the Pope or the Vatican on issues.

Consider this possibility: William F. Buckley may be best understood as a central figure in the golden age of what came to be called the American Catholic Renaissance, which began just before the Second World War and ran through the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope John XXIII issued a call privately and then on Vatican Radio to both the Soviets and Americans to compromise.

(CNN)-- Pope Benedict XVI will keep the title «his holiness» once he retires and will be called «pontiff emeritus,» Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters at the Vatican on Tuesday.

In a tribute published to mark the 40th anniversary of the breakup of the band, who singer John Lennon once claimed were «more popular than Jesus,» the Vatican newspaper «L'Osservatore Romano» said it had forgiven them and called them a «precious jewel.»

Vatican Council II calls for the restoration of the collegiality, but the Curia has been able to block any decentralizing of authoritative power so far.

(One searches in vain, for example, for a Protestant equivalent of Vatican II's call for the renewal of moral theology, repeated more recently in the Catholic Catechism.)

A Pope who dresses modestly, pays his own lodging bills, drives around Vatican City in a Ford Focus, calls many people on the phone, brings jam sandwiches to on - duty Swiss Guards at his door and invites street people to his birthday breakfast.

But, in the end times, (as we are seeing now), the erroneous, vile, corrupt ways of old men that live at the Vatican and call the shots are being exposed for what they are (Thank God).

Calling John Paul a «reactionary,» Carroll condemns what he sees as the pope's program of «medieval restoration» and its attempted repeal of Vatican II.

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

Bethlehem, West Bank (CNN)- Pope Francis extended an invitation Sunday to the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to travel to the Vatican for a «peace initiative,» after earlier calling for a two - state solution to the intractable conflict.

CNN: Vatican newspaper calls fragment referring to Jesus» wife «a fake» The Vatican on Friday appeared to push back on a recently publicized piece of papyrus that appears to show an early Christian referring to Jesus» wife, with its newspaper calling the fragment «a fake.»

The straight - talking American prelate lamented the fact that while the Second Vatican Council had «called for a renewal of the sacrament of penance», what emerged «sadly, in many places, was the disappearance of the sacrament».

When Jobs and Wozniak got the phone hacking device to work, their first call was to the Vatican.

And in this sense, he was the precursor of what Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, described as the «universal call to holiness.»

CNN: My Take: Why good Catholics are challenging church line on homosexuality Patrick Hornbeck of Fordham University looks into why more Catholics are defying the Vatican on homosexuality, while the Roman Catholic Church has called being gay or lesbian «an objective disorder.»

The two met during a three - daylong series of discussions at the Vatican about the fourth annual international conference called Unite to Cure: A Global Health Care Initiative.

In these times of spiritual crisis, we look to the Holy Spirit to lead us to that deeper truth and deeper loving called for by Vatican II.

In 2005, during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican issued directives that barred men from the priesthood «who are actively homosexual, have deep - seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so - called «gay culture.»»

«Reacting with unusual swiftness,» The New York Times reported, two days day after the present Holy Father's election, «the Vatican on Friday rejected any suggestion that Pope Francis... was implicated in his country's so - called Dirty War during the 1970s.»

Providentially this is also the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and we are being called to look carefully at its texts during the Year of Faith, which starts in October.

Now if it had been the Angels as the American League representative the runner probably would have miraculously hopped over the third baseman without contact so the call would not have been made and even the Vatican would be happy!

The Vatican has called for «reason» after a small number of traditionalist Catholic figures accused the pope of promoting heresy.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

On July 3 of that year, the Vatican published a decretum called Lamentabili Sane, containing a syllabus of sixty - five Modernist propositions to be condemned.

If some one cites as authoritative the council held by the Catholic Church in 451 A.D., why wouldn't he also cite as authoritiative the council held by the Catholic Church from 1961 - 65 (called the Second Vatican Council)?

My own thoughts are occasioned by two essays I read recently: one by Avery Cardinal Dulles in a volume called Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition and the other by Christopher J. Molloy, an essay titled «Subsistit In: Nonexclusive Identity or Full Identity?»

The Vatican - endorsed program, called Courage, has more than 100 national chapters, WFSB reports.

Then on Sunday at St. Patrick's: «For all of us, I think, one of the great disappointments that followed the Second Vatican Council, with its call for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

The Pope is not calling for a redistribution of wealth because if that were true, the Vatican would have to release millions of their own funds.

Zöller is especially strong in his discussion of the period since the Second Vatican Council, which some thought called for revolution in both Church and society.

The impact of modernity did not show itself again in Catholicism until Pope John XXIII called Vatican II, when Catholicism took a sudden but cautious leap into the modern world with its policy of aggiornamento (updating).

This was followed in 1869 by the calling of the ecumenical council now known as Vatican I. Among other things it made the infallibility of the papacy a mandatory dogma.

The Catholic bishops throughout the world, as Vatican II insisted, are also collegially vested with this calling.

Likewise, Sandeep Banerjee of the Times Of India suggested that «the Spanish Inquisition could lay claim to being one of the bloodiest chapters of human history, scripted by the Vatican's Holy Office of the Inquisition, now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, an office the current Pope once headed before his elevation.»

Only The Times report was something of a throwback to the old kneejerk Popeknocking days: «Critics,» wrote one Richard Owen, «said that putting a Ratzinger - Bertone alliance at the top of the Vatican hierarchy meant that the Church would be in the hands of «arch-conservatives» at a time when many Catholics, especially in the Third World, are calling forreform.»

But the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, dismissed the claims - which date back to Argentina's so - called Dirty War from 1976 to 1983 - as false and defamatory.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Dolan has made the short lists of some Vatican watchers as a likely choice to be elected as the next pope by the College of Cardinals, a designation called «papabili» in Italian.

In its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, the Second Vatican Council called for a truly ecclesial intellectual development.

(CNN)- The Vatican on Friday appeared to push back on a recently publicized piece of papyrus that appears to show an early Christian referring to Jesus» wife, with its newspaper calling the fragment «a fake.»