Sentences with phrase «as bishop from»

As bishop from 1984 to 1998, he was the spiritual leader of 120 parishes spread across 19 counties between Pennsylvania and the Adirondacks.

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.

Hoss had three chief grievances, besides his own disenfranchisement as a bishop from the Vanderbilt Board.

Not exact matches

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

Father Thomas Boyle from the Scottish Catholic Bishops» Conference on the need to unite as one country.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

Early this month, an American theologian resigned under pressure from his post as theological advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Romney, as a bishop, could NEVER stray from that, which (if you have ever taken the time to read or learn anything at all about Mormons) means he would favor LDS interests above the rest of us.

Augustine's sermons now appear more as «dialogues with the crowd» than authoritative utterances from the bishop's cathedra, and his tone often reveals that he had little authority over his hearers.

At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as deists as well as Christians.

It includes fifteen statements from various episcopal conferences and individual bishops in Europe and North America, as well as the Holy See's «We Remember: Reflections on the Shoah,» with accompanying commentaries.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

Less than fifty years ago nearly the entire student body of CUA went on strike to protest the dismissal of Curran from his post as assistant professor of theology by the CUA Board of Trustees - composed entirely of American bishops.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

(CNN)- Catholic bishops «will be held accountable» for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis said Monday, his strongest acknowledgment yet of what abuse victims have been saying for decades: that the cover - ups have often been as bad as the crimes.

«I think the take - away from this is, it's clear the administration is serious about its efforts to address the concerns of the Catholic bishops and others as it relates to the insurance mandate.»

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

As bishops» conferences from all over the world are electing their representatives for this year's synod, it becomes clearer that the conservative line will be upheld by a wide majority of the participants.

The latest episode in this long and continuing story was frst fully broken shortly after the Synod's decision in July by The Catholic Herald, who had a long news piece, an article by «fying bishop» Andrew Burnham (who had just returned from discussions in Rome), and an opinion piece by Damian Thompson containing «well - informed» speculation as to the shape of any agreement over some form of corporate solution to the Anglo - Catholics» problem.

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»

The group of bishops addresses many needs of the church, from how to handle changes in the liturgy to acting as the public policy arm of the church.

He and bishops across the country read letters from the pulpit decrying the policy as a violation of religious liberty.

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

What about the Mormons that believe in mormon magical underwear that protects them from evil.Or they revere Joesoph Smith as their messiah when he was a con artist, molester, rapist, theif.Or what about Mormons believe god lives on planet kolob lol.I am a conservative christian repub and can not vote for a cult bishop like Romney, Do nt sell your sould supporting a cult bishop who believes this garbage lol.

As it turned out, our schools were saved from the Bill not by the bishops but by the Tories.

In the second half of the second century, bishops and theologians all over the Christian world, from Gaul in the west to Edessa in the east, worked energetically to expose him as a false teacher and discredit the simple idea now attached to his name.

It's best for the Bishops not to go ahead as they had planned but to look carefully at the two key questions from which they have kept away.

At his death on April 2, 2005, between the thousands packed into St. Peter's Square, and the group of doctors, nuns, priests, and bishops in his bedroom, John Paul ended his papacy as far from alone as one can be.

If Tietjen is critical of his opponents, he is also honest about his own inadequacies as president of two seminaries and as a bishop in the new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (a position from which he resigned).

Says the bishop, «As bishop of this diocese, I have, as the successor of the apostles in union with the Holy Father, the absolute duty to protect [the Mass] from innovation or sacrilege.&raquAs bishop of this diocese, I have, as the successor of the apostles in union with the Holy Father, the absolute duty to protect [the Mass] from innovation or sacrilege.&raquas the successor of the apostles in union with the Holy Father, the absolute duty to protect [the Mass] from innovation or sacrilege.»

As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle between traditionalists centered in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, and a core of progressive bishops, mostly from northern EuropAs mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle between traditionalists centered in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, and a core of progressive bishops, mostly from northern Europas a battle between traditionalists centered in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, and a core of progressive bishops, mostly from northern Europe.

Instead of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible example,» the clear call of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the principles of the kingdom of God (July 17, 1929).

If one reads recent Catholic just war thinking one regularly finds the idea of right intention collapsed into just cause or used to reinforce that moral requirement, as in this formulation from the Catholic bishops of the United States: «Force may be used only for a truly just cause and solely for that purpose.»

The assembled bishops - six metropolitans and thirty conventional bishops from all over Persia - threw themselves at the feet of the reluctant Dadyeshu and vowed him allegiance in terms that unequivocally set apart the church in Asia as free in Christ under its own head the Catholicos, not opposed to the west but equal in rank and authority to any western Patriarchate.

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....

What struck me as the most important insight came from the quotation of Dumitru Popescu: «Orthodoxy accepts a primacy of the bishop of Rome, but a primacy of service.»

And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.»

His early life seems so remote from anything today that in many ways it seems almost hopeless to suggest him as a role model for today's bishops.

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

In that year, the bishops of East and West gathered at the Second Council of Nicaea: a meeting which, apart from its importance for other reasons, is remembered as the last occasion on which Christian faith, as a lived reality recognized throughout the then - known world, found expression in a universally representative gathering.

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.

Huffington Post: Pope: Others should be held to same abuse «standards» Pope Benidict XVI told bishops from New York State that «all other institutions» in society should be held to the same «exacting standards» as the Roman Catholic Church in preventing and reporting sex abuse.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

He suggests that, apart from a lot of dumb bishops (in my experience they are not so many and they are not so dumb as he thinks), the «Catholic thing» is vibrantly alive in America.

As the Catholic bishops of Latin America put it in their influential statement of 1968, one must think theologically from the perspective of a «preferential option for the poor.»

The bright and personable priest from Merseyside, who as General Secretary ruled the roost at the Bishops» Conference headquarters at Eccleston Square for eight years from the mid-1980s, was seen by many Catholics at the time as a breath of fresh air [Note: for «many Catholics» read «The Tablet»].

Apart from anything else, Mrs McLeod is not going to drop this one; and whether they like it or not, the English bishops have become uneasily aware that there are those in Rome who listen to her when she gives them her assessments of what is going on in what some of them see as a remote and mostly God - forsaken part of the Catholic world, of which they know little.

First, that Archbishop Mennini has considerable respect for Bishop Davies, whom he clearly sees as the kind of bishop we need more of in this country: he almost certainly found out about Mgr Egan, who has so far maintained a fairly low profile, from Bishop Davies: the fact that he has followed his advice shows what kind of bishop he is now looking to appoint.