Sentences with phrase «about ordination»

Responding to this reality, and getting real about priorities, Msgr. Joseph Champlin, well - known writer and lecturer, told the diocesan paper of St. Cloud, Minn., «The big question is not about the ordination of women or married clergy or the decline in clergy or pedophilia or abortion or assisted suicide.

The strict complementarian position of Cedarville University raises questions about ordination and the nature of the church.

It is not clear how Volf's perspectives about ordination address this «culture of professionalism» in modern churches that draws a sharp demarcation between clergy and laity and pays no mind to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Volf adds little that is new to classical congregationalist views about ordination.

Not exact matches

I interviewed him on the Feast of the Assumption, during a parish party celebrating the first traditional ordination in Nigeria in over forty years, which I wrote about elsewhere.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

She also said the Diocese first received complaints about Storey in early 2009 and spoke with police and withdrew him from ordination training.

After the ordination of eight of our brothers, there are over fifty of us studying for the priesthood or preparing to live life as a consecrated brother, about to be joined by fifteen more on July 25.

Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree about church teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of women, and the nature of the papacy, among other things.

So I laughed out loud when I read a line from a piece published in New York Times about a «quieter battle» being waged within churches over gay marriage and gay ordination.

Rome is wrong to deny ordination to women, but by the same token it was wrong centuries ago about the nature of priesthood; Rome should have rendered a different judgment in the case of contraception, but there is no authentic apostolic authority to make such a judgment in the first place.

Is the gender inclusion more pressing because it doesn't actually affect his own position, whereas to say the same about gender identity and sexual orientation issues would require him to lay aside his own ordination?

Edessa and the countries round about it which were on all sides of it, and Zoba (Nisibis) and Arabia, and all the north, and the regions round about it, and the south and all the regions on the borders of Mesopotamia, received apostles» ordination to the priesthood from Addaeus the apostle, one of the seventy - two apostles.

Questions have been asked about the consistency of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions of faith and belief at the time of her ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.

Speaking to Premier Christianity, Rt Rev Mark Tanner, the Bishop of Berwick in Northumberland, called on those considering ordination to think about being trained in cities such as Durham, Liverpool and Leeds.

When Austen wrote about it in a letter (to her sister Cassandra, January 29, 1813), she said she intended «to write of something else; — it shall be a complete change of subject — Ordination.»

In a recent discussion with a group of seminary students, I was struck by the apparent confusion over the nature of ordination among young persons about to enter professional ministry.

Despite the fact that the debate over female ordination will continue, it seems that evangelicals on different sides of that debate could come together about the role of women in para-church organizations.

My friend Sarah heard them when her questions about women's ordination were met with charges that she didn't take the Bible seriously.

The controversies in the church are about its institutional structure, papacy, ordination of women, lay presidency at the Eucharist and so on.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

«It was indicated to [ordinands at an ordination service] that while kneeling and prior to the stole being placed about them, they were to kiss it, as if this were a routine ceremony.

After a comfortable accommodation to monastic life, Luther entered preparation for ordination as a priest, but was plagued by depression about his relationship with God, feeling he could never make himself worthy of God's love.

Ordinatio does not say that Catholics must remain «silent» about women's ordination.

• At its twentieth anniversary convention in Arlington, Va., the Women's Ordination Conference was still able to draw about a thousand participants, despite the 1994 statement by Rome that the Church is not authorized and therefore can not ordain women to the priesthood.

He adds that his wife's decision to foreswear the Anglican ordination she had been seeking was critical (in all of these cases family matters are crucial, idiosyncratic, and difficult to talk about on the record).

This distinctive example of late Rattanakosin period architecture is best known for a four - sided ordination hall built out of imported Italian marble in... Read more about Wat Benchamabophit.

What clients are unforgiving about is any lack of co ordination, points - scoring between lawyers, turf wars as to who should be doing what and when, and the shifting of blame if things go wrong.