Sentences with phrase «vatican statement»

The parents of the ten - month - old terminally ill baby were even backed in a Vatican statement today which read that Pope Francis had been following the case «with affection and sadness».

The parents of the ten - month - old terminally ill baby were even backed in a Vatican statement today which read that Pope Francis had been following the case «with...

And the new Vatican statement will not require bishops to report suspected abusers to the police, he anticipated.

A Vatican statement said that Monsignor Carlo Capella was being held in gendarmerie barracks inside the Vatican, and that his arrest follows a Vatican investigation.

The Vatican statement expressed profound concern for the radicalisation and worsening of the crisis, including the increase in deaths, injuries and arrests of protesters.

The New York Times (which although not an «official» Jewish publication certainly reflects and indeed influences a certain type of American Jewish opinion) editorially branded the Vatican statement a whitewash, a rationalization of the conduct of the Church during the Holocaust.

The Vatican statement is very significant, not only because it is immediately beneficial to Jews, but even more importantly because it is part of a larger process of the Church's coming to grips with her Jewish origins and her coexistence with the Jewish people until the end of history.

The pope visited Gabriele in prison «in order to confirm his forgiveness and communicate in person his decision to grant Mr. Gabriele's request for pardon, thereby remitting the sentence passed against the latter,» said a Vatican statement.

The promised Vatican statement on the inadmissibility of homosexuals to the priesthood is, according to some reports, still on track.

He did not concede; he straightforwardly said, as the subsequent Vatican statement said, that the pope expressed concern about the treatment of the Christian community in Iraq.

Making a clear distinction between the founder and the work he launched and led, the Vatican statement also said that «the worthy apostolate of the Legionaries of Christ and of the association Regnum Christi is gratefully recognized.»

-- Vatican statement, 1866

Nevertheless, the paper is essentially guided by the language of the 1985 Vatican statement in which «Christians are asked to understand the religious ties [of Jews to the land of Israel] that have deep biblical roots.

In the closing section of his lecture, he affirmed recent Vatican statements on social justice.

Vatican statements criticizing Nazi policies were so painstakingly and cautiously worded that they can be interpreted in all kinds of ways (although many observers at the time, including the Nazis, viewed them as direct attacks).

Not exact matches

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 first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

While the Vatican speaks of a «homeland in which [the Palestinians] live in freedom, dignity, and security,» the bishops» statement speaks of «an independent Palestinian homeland with its sovereign status recognized by Israel.»

The bishops» statement thus constitutes a significant modification of the Vatican's position.

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.

The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council's statement in Nostra Aetate that the «Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions» has often been missed by Catholics on both sides of the ecclesial aisle.

The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.

Paolo Gabriele, 46, was arrested Wednesday for illegal possession of confidential documents, found in his apartment in Vatican territory, the Vatican said in a statement issued three days later.

As the Vatican's statement makes clear: «Everything reported by the author... is the fruit of his own reconstruction, in which the verbatim words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted.

The Vatican has released a statement that doesn't deny the pope's comments, but merely underscores that it might not be an exact quote:

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

After examining the traditional Christian teaching of supersessionism — that is, the belief that Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen ones — we surveyed some of the post-Holocaust Christian literature, from the groundbreaking Vatican II document Nostra Aetate to the many ecclesial statements and theological writings that have striven to revise Christian understandings of Judaism.

«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.

In this column we hope to chronicle some of the statements and initiatives that, by the grace of God and in accordance with ideas articulated by the Second Vatican Council, are aimed at the «New Evangelisation» of our culture.

In a statement, the Vatican said: «The donation, which is intended to show the pope's solidarity and spiritual closeness to those affected by the disaster, is a small part of the financial support being sent to Mexico through many bishops conferences and Caritas organisations.»

We shall not prove these statements by earlier doctrinal pronouncements, but confine ourselves to the teaching of Vatican II.

Even the Catholic Church uses this anthropology in a few of its official statements like the Second Vatican Council's Gaudium et Spes, and statements by national bishops conferences in Peru and the Netherlands, as well as the Vatican's 1986 Instruction on Liberation Theology.

Not at that moment, but, a few days after his return to Rome, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, issued a statement, explicitly approved by the pope, reaffirming a directive of 2005 that nobody is to be admitted to priestly formation who suffers from deep - seated homosexual tendencies, engages in homosexual acts, or supports the «gay culture.»

The pontiff released a statement through Vatican Radio, saying: «The grave decision taken by the Holy See, under the weight of serious pastoral concerns, is for the greater good and unity of the Church of Ciudad del Este and episcopal communion in Paraguay.

«Thanks to Communism» The second statement is of particular interest, coming from an extended interview with journalist Jas Gawronski which was published in the Milan newspaper La Stampa and then reprinted in the official Vatican paper, L'Osservatore Romano.

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.

At the time, I wrote that Jews should accept this statement «in full satisfaction of their grievance against the wartime Vatican.»

«The Pope has said he never, never was a member of the Hitler Youth, which was a movement of fanatical volunteers,» Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said - contradicting statements the Pope has himself made about his involvement with the group.

How else, for instance are we to explain the extraordinary statement that «The only reason why Cardinal Sodano is leaving is that he is already three years past the Vatican's official retirement age of 75»?

In fact, Scalfari and the pope have had these kinds of sort - of on - the - record conversations five times in recent years, several of which prompted the Vatican to release similar statements, (that is, despite the Vatican saying «without however giving him any interviews» in their recent statement).

As we await the results of the Holy See's talks with the Society of St. Pius X, a prominent Catholic priest has issued an important statement about Vatican II, which is at the center of the discussions.

But despite the Vatican's statement that implied that the publication of the interview was a surprise to them, the pope knew Scalfari reconstructs conversations — because he and Scalfari are close friends, and Scalfari has reconstructed parts of their conversations before as interviews.

This Christian of the future — encouraged by this statement of Vatican II in the Constitution of the Church and really authorized by it, in fact officially for the first time — knows that the morning light on the mountains is the beginning of the day in the valley, not the light of day above condemning the darkness beneath.

But what happens now is the vatican must scurry about correcting his statements.

Biblical studies among Catholics were one factor among many leading to the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), and the statements from these sessions were the most important impetus for Roman Catholic dialogues with other Christians.

But the statement of some 150 German theologians rejecting the Joint Declaration on Justification proposed by the LWF and the Vatican Council on Unity indicates that the past is not yet dead.

Katz's accusation referred to statements of German diplomat Eitel Mollhausen, who, after learning of the planned roundup, supposedly «passed it along to [Germany's Vatican Ambassador Ernst von] Weizsacker's embassy, which in turn enlightened the Vatican.»

It also revealed the «opacity, silence and poor management» in the handling of Vatican assets, prosecutor Roberto Zanotti said in his closing statements.

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, in his recent work on the dignity of humanity, Man, the Image of God, notes that one of the statements from Vatican II most often quoted by Pope Benedict XVI is this: «It is only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man becomes clear.»