Sentences with phrase «vatican office»

The powerful Vatican office, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, launched an investigation for several years.

The Vatican office that issued the assessment said it was a first step in reforming American nuns.

Levada leads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office charged with enforcing church law.

The Holy Vatican Office Of Verifying Silly Claims will do its usual rigorous investigation, as they have with so many saints, and presto zippo, Saint Benedict XVI, patron said of hemorrhoid sufferers.

Whereas his predecessor, Benedict, came to the papacy by way of the scholarly library and high Vatican offices (Rosica called him «the Mozart of theologians») Francis «has a pastor's heart.»

The relevant officials in those Vatican offices might begin that reexamination with a close reading of Serhii Plokhy's fine new book, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation from 1470 to the Present.

Not exact matches

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said there were «some irregularities» in the office and that measures were being taken to ensure something similar didn't happen again.

Following a recent search of the Vatican's offices, investigators reportedly found about $ 22,000 in cash in a desk drawer.

Federico added in a statement to the AP that the office is «vigorously» taking steps to following protocol used by other Vatican congregations.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

The Pope is the head the Catholic Church, the offices of which are located in the Vatican City in Italy.

(CNN)- At the same time as Pope Benedict XVI leaves office on February 28, his Twitter presence as @Pontifex will also come to an end, according to Vatican Radio.

The message comes as he introduces new cost - cutting measures to church offices and has encouraged reforms at the Vatican Bank.

All that notwithstanding, England's Cardinal Vincent Nichols sent a letter to his priests effectively forbidding the ad orientem posture, and the Vatican press office issued a statement stating that no new regulations were forthcoming.

After my confession, he took me to his office and showed me the lovely letter he received from the Vatican.

After he announced his retirement, the Vatican said he had begun thinking about leaving the office after a strenuous papal visit barnstorming across Mexico and Cuba.

5, in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, following the lead of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.»

A Vatican spokesman told CNN, «The Holy See Press Office has no official comment on the private meeting.»

The Vatican is the larger complex and the city - state, also the name for the collective administrative offices (much like how we'll use the phrase Capitol Hill to include the workings of Congress and the rest of the government).

«It's highly symbolic, of course,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a consultant to the Vatican press office.

That was true of Vatican II's authentic reforms in its teaching on the nature of the Church, the office of bishop, and religious freedom.

But these office blocks in one of London's most expensive districts are part of a surprising secret commercial property empire owned by the Vatican.

«This new figure will have the task of dealing with communications issues in the work of the secretariat of state and will oversee relations with the Holy See Press Office and other media institutions of the Holy See,» Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

The RCC would be wise to close that office in the Vatican and the Pope would be wise to stop talking about indulgences for the health of the future of the RCC, in my view.

The Leadership Conference's 22 - member board said that its leaders would travel to Rome this month to meet with the head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the office that launched an investigation of the American nuns several years ago.

tallulah13 BD would do away with the patent office and have all new ideas pass through the Vatican, BD can be very stupid from time to time or most of the time.

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.&Office of the Inquisition, now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, an office the current Pope once headed before his elevation.&office the current Pope once headed before his elevation.»

And those articles in peer - reviewed journals such as the Lancet, Science and BMJ, mentioned by Dr. Greene, were all in the public domain: the Vatican Press Office should have known about those, too, and should have been ready to quote them the instant the Pope made his off - the cuff remarks.

«It's between the Pope and the woman,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a consultant for the Vatican press office.

«There is no sickness whatsoever,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a consultant to the Vatican press office.

So, where was the Vatican Press Office when all this was going on?

In The Pastoral Office, printed for the private use of his clergy after the First Vatican Council, Cardinal Manning forecast that, if the Council was to be reassembled, its first duty would be to build upon the work already achieved «and to define the Divine powers of the Episcopate and its relation to its Head».

It could be an effort to unseat Benedict's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who will run the conclave to choose the next pope if he is in office when Benedict dies, according to the Rev. Thomas Reese, author of «Inside the Vatican.»

In announcing the audience, the Vatican press office said the pope gave a «brief greeting» to the 250 or so participants gathered in the Clementine Hall, one of the main reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace.

There were certainly mutterings from the likes of Michael Walsh about the «demotion» of the Vatican's former chief expert on Islam, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald — on the ground that had he still been in Rome, he «might have alerted the Pope to the pitfalls of the quotation he used in his Regensburg speech», «though the Pope could as easily have had the text of his speech faxed to Fitzgerald's new office in Cairo as to his former office in the Vatican.

Vatican I emphasized the divine character of the papal office and made it seem distant from average people.

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that during Tuesday's meeting with the head of the Vatican's saint - making office, Francis had approved a decree confirming a miracle attributed to Mr Romero's intercession.

(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI's spokesman has denied the pontiff will resign over the arrest of his butler on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Vatican press office said Thursday.

Vatican I's highly restricted decree contains, if one grants the primacy at all, great truth about how the teaching office should function.

The Holy See's press office Saturday urged the public to read the latest Vatican - related diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks with «great prudence,» claiming the allegations cited in the documents reflect only the view of their writers.

CNN: Vatican: Pope not resigning over alleged papers leak Pope Benedict XVI's spokesman has denied the pontiff will resign over the arrest of his butler on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Vatican press office said Thursday.

[26] 1st February 2010 Vatican Press Office.

He brought the Vatican press office into (the first half of) the twentieth century, was sorely missed since leaving that post in 2006, and died on July 5.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

Even more than other press offices, the Vatican's knows perfectly well that twenty minutes barely suffices for protocol and pleasantries on such an occasion.

Offering new glimpses of his personal life, Francis said he prays at the dentist's office and felt trapped in the Vatican's traditional papal apartments.

10:57 - Brooks uses her «Vatican chimney» story, in which the Sun indicated its political support by pumping red smoke out of its Wapping offices, as a way of lightening the mood.

To varying degrees, each of the 16 offices — and, of course, the independent Vatican Observatory — intersects with scientific issues, and they tend to rely on the efforts of one academy to provide clarity and consultation: the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Below the observatory's domed chamber are the offices that make up the rest of the Vatican Observatory.

Dominus may refer to: Christus Dominus, the Second Vatican Council's «Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops».