Sentences with phrase «allow ordination»

In other words, Rome is wrong not to allow the ordination of women, but Jesus did not institute a priesthood to begin with; the ban on contraception was wrongly decided, but the Church has no magisterial office to rule on that matter anyway.

The Church of England has voted to allow the ordination of women bishops, two years after members of the General Synod struck down previous legislation.

The Church of England has voted to allow the ordination of women bishops, two years after members of... More

They are barred from marriage, from the same basic rights in this country, and those denominations that allow the ordination of LGBTQ are few and far between.

A top contender to head the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected allegations he allowed the ordination of a priest who went on to abuse children.

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When the commission agreed that Scripture provided no directive concerning the ordination of women, the representatives from Latin America and Africa and other conservatives interpreted this as prohibiting a change of policy, while representatives, and especially theologians, from North America, Europe and Australasia interpreted this as allowing innovation.

With such a recommendation, the advocates of women's ordination decided that their only hope was to persuade the session to allow any division that opted for it to proceed unilaterally.

The structure of the denomination would then better reflect its diversity, and would allow contentious issues, such as the ordination of women, to be addressed locally.

In the Synod of Bishops that followed there were 87 votes cast for a position that would encourage the pope to allow the priestly ordination of «married men of mature age and proven life» (ibid p. 250 fn.52).

Here they have insisted that the national church restrict the freedom of annual conferences with respect to ordination and the freedom of local congregations with respect to the kinds of services they are allowed to hold.

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

Presbyterian Church (USA) allows local option on ordination of partnered gay people.

He reasoned that, even though the church allows such ordinations, God does not.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

He points to women's ordination as a sine qua non for women's rights, and castigates Christian denominations that don't allow it.

Geoffrey Wainwright allows for alternatives, but insists that churches use «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» at key points of Christian worship such as baptisms, eucharistic prayers, creeds and ordinations.

Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates for ministry.

When the repentant sinner is a priest, however, it is a separate, prudential question whether he should be allowed to continue in ministry, just as it is a prudential question whether a good man seeking ordination ought to be ordained in the first place.

That's because Tony Jones, theologian - in - residence at Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has developed an application, or «app,» that allows iPhone users to experience mock ordinations in more than two dozen faiths.

As is well known, the Eastern Church requires the clergy to assume either monastic or marital vows before ordination, and does not allow the remarriage of a clerical widower unless he abandons the exercise of his priesthood.

They are vital for the overall co ordination of the nervous system and are needed to allow the brain to interpret sensory information it receives.