We advocate,
as the bishops do, a great increase in the participation of everyone in the vitality of a healthy economy.
After only two days of serving
as the bishop of the Central Florida Diocese, I found myself marching in the streets of Sanford, FL and speaking at city hall at a city commission meeting due to the developments following the death of Trayvon Martin.
f) Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were given VETO power over whom the pope could appoint
as a bishop in Germany, Spain and Italy.
I was caught in similar situations seeking marriage counseling from well meaning men
appointed as my Bishops while I was being physically and emotionallly abused by my LDS wife.
The Church in Wales has announced new measures to ordain
women as bishops while «making everyone feel valued in the Church, regardless of their views on the issue».
Not long ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a personal donation to the restoration of the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, the site of the ancient town of Hippo Regius, where the greatest theologian of the ancient church served
as bishop from 395 to 430.
The Church in Wales has announced new measures to ordain women
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If complying with the mandate means violating Church teaching,
as the bishops seem to say, then non-compliance must begin at the very start.
He described his
role as bishop in 1850 as «to guide and perfect the priesthood, to rule and sanctify the religious communities, to provide for the spiritual wants of thefaithful people, to bring coercion to sinners - light to those who stray in the ways of error, and to defend, uphold and advance the Church of God».
The Seminary prepares students for
ministry as bishops, priests, deacons, lay leaders, and scholars so that they may build up Orthodox communities, foster Church growth through mission and evangelism, teach the Orthodox faith, and care for those in need.
But
as the bishops began to assert their supervisory powers through several vetoes, the Vanderbilt Board, after various attempts to sidestep them, eventually rejected their authority.
Although we are formally speaking of Benedict's initiatives as pope, it is probably best to discuss the theological body of work he produced from 1981 to 2013, rather than simply his last eight
years as bishop of Rome....
Could it be that after centuries of tradition that the Church will recognize the plight of having one
man as the bishop of Rome and finally appoint the Peter Council, consisting of 12 bishops, representing the leadership of 12 apostles (Paul, being the 12th) to lead the Church into the next millenium?
As the bishops note in their pastoral letter: «Government should not replace or destroy smaller communities and individual initiative.
That inflexibility is reinforced by the account of Tietjen's very short
tenure as bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod at the founding of the ELCA, when his inflexibility put him at loggerheads with the newly elected synod council.
As the bishops developed ways to make this concern front and center in the church, a passion for the poor began to «seep out of the churches» into the horizons and practices of the empire.
«As we respond to these developments let us resolve to uphold each other in mutual prayer and to do all we can to strengthen the koinonia we
share as bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia.»
The publication of the votes is likely to heighten
tensions as bishops draft a new document on the CofE's stance on same - sex marriage.
But if the alternatives are also immoral,
as the bishops suggest, it hardly follows that Christians should say an «unequivocal no» to participation in nuclear weapons development.
The Constitution on the Liturgy confronts us with many tasks which are still outstanding,
especially as the Bishops» Conferences have been given considerable competences in this field which should be used courageously.
Horror ensued in the
diocese as the bishop was accused of being a «romantic who doesn't seem to be able to take hard management decisions».
Why does Rome appoint
as bishops only those who have never publicly questioned Humanae vitae, the celibacy of priests and the ordination of women?
The Guardian: Female bishop row deepens as priest refuses promotion in protest The Church of England's split over female bishops has deepened after a traditionalist clergyman announced he was not taking up his
post as a bishop following protests over his opposition to women in the ministry.
Looking into «causes and context» sounds anodyne enough, until it turns out that the Board is as
independent as the bishops promised it would be in June of 2002, and very specific «causes» multiply to expose a «context» of misgovernance.
Karol Wojtyla came to the papacy not
merely as a bishop but as a professor of philosophy who had been writing about and teaching personalism in Poland long before the Second Vatican Council began.
It may be,
as some bishops complain, that the NRB went beyond what they thought was its mandate, but it was only the promise that its investigation would be independent and comprehensive that made it possible to enlist the extraordinary talents and devotion of the twelve lay people who worked so hard to produce the report.
But Romney, who has both led a Mormon
congregation as a bishop and a regional group of churches as stake president, will speak to specific practices of his church and his experiences.
Some — perhaps most — of the graduates from the new theological seminaries are as
conservative as the bishops or rectors who selected them for training, but theirs is not the only mind - set in the provincial dioceses.
Did I simply imagine the uproar on the floor of the Synod on October 16, 2014,
as bishop after bishop protested an interim report generated by Baldisseri and his colleague, Archbishop Bruno Forte, which did not reflect the discussions of the previous two weeks?
Under the headline «The new bishop is in for a treat», he reported that there was «excitement in traditional Catholic circles at the appointment of Mgr Philip
Egan as bishop of the hippy - dippy diocese of Portsmouth.
There were of course other Christians performing many functions of ministry or service; but they seem not to have held «Offices» in the same
sense as bishops, elders, and deacons.