Sentences with phrase «as bishops only»

Why does Rome appoint as bishops only those who have never publicly questioned Humanae vitae, the celibacy of priests and the ordination of women?

Not exact matches

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

Otis Charles - described by the Times as «the only openly gay Episcopal bishop,» thereby implying that others are in the closet — says, «The new phenomenon is that we're no longer willing to remain silent and invisible.

Well, precisely: since Sheerman says that «faith education works all right as long as people are not thatserious about their faith», it is obvious not only that that is exactly what he is attempting to do, but also that Bishop Roche is absolutely right (other bishops please note) to resist him.

If at times the descriptions of Foyer communities conjured up images of kaftan communes of the 1960s, these were held at bay by repeated assertions of Marthe's adherence at all times to the Church's Magisterium, of each Foyer opening only at the invitation of the local bishop and of snippets of Marthe's such as «Mass is not an obligation... it is a necessity!»

Anyone who previously had unthinkingly understood the dogma of the primacy of the pope as meaning that the bishops were only subordinate, provincial papal officials, was given a fundamental lesson by Vatican II.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

According to the NRB, the crisis was chiefly created by what can only be described as misgovernance by the bishops.

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.

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.»

But now, as an Anglican woman, not only could I enrol on any course for missionary, lay or ordained ministry, I could also set my sights on becoming a bishop.

There is no such thing as a double truth, and to certain questions there is only one true answer — even when bishops, and entire conferences, give contradictory answers.

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.

When the doors to the Sistine Chapel are closed and the secret deliberations begin, the 117 men in the 2013 papal conclave will not only be selecting a pope as the new bishop of Rome, but also as the pastor of the 1,195,671,000 - member global communion.

And he will be the only English Catholic bishop with a PhD - a real one, as opposed to the Dolly Parton / Richard Chartres honorary variety.»

It goes unmentioned in the New — unless, as many scholars now believe, I Timothy 3:2, 12 and Titus 1:6 mean, as the Greek plainly reads, that bishops and deacons should have only one wife, referring not to divorce and remarriage (surely a widowed and remarried bishop was not disallowed) but to polygamy.

Neils Stensen, popularly known as «Steno,» was a seventeenth - century Danish Lutheran who died a Catholic bishop in north - east Germany, aged only forty - eight.

But that we old fools march around in bishops» hats and with clerical pageantry and take it not only seriously but as an article of faith, so that it must be a sin and must torment the conscience of anyone who does not venerate such child's play — that is the devil himself.

One who affirms a doctrine of apostolic succession culminating in the authority of the bishop of Rome must not only choose between succession of teaching or succession of office (as J. B. Lightfoot in his own day understood), but also surmount the historiographical difficulty posed by the early Church's transition from apostles to presbyters, and from presbyters to a single monarchical bishop.

As in the case of the bishop of Cuernavaca, the reasons for this distinction are not only theological but also eminently empirical.

It was published three years before his death; the only copy of a subsequent manuscript was burned by a bishop of the Church of England as being too hot for the faithful to handle.

Ever since the motu proprio was published -(interesting, incidentally, how everyone now speaks of THE motu proprio, as if there had only ever been one of them)- and it was clear that the bishops hostile to it were not going to be allowed to get in its way, the battle moved to the next set of trenches: those dug by the increasingly desperate proponents of «the spirit of Vatican II», who had so far seemed generally quiescent in defeat, but who had in fact been looking for a casus belli all along.

He insisted that in the Catholic Church as a whole only the Pope could transfer a bishop from one see to another, could create new dioceses, or could change the boundaries of existing dioceses.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

For example, in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis he seems to express a further aspect of the role of the Pope: the Pope by his own authority not only teaches the Faith as the head of the College of Bishops but is also able to discern clearly what teachings are indeed infallibly taught by the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church.

By the 1850's it was a commonplace observation that in America the Episcopalians «have allowed the laity a share in ecclesiastical legislation and administration, such as the high church in England never granted» and that as a matter of fact even a bishop «maintains his authority for the most part only by his personal character and judicious counsel.

Only during the episcopate of Demetrius (189 - 232) did some of these centers acquire bishops, in part as a consequence of the introduction of the Roman municipal system, in part as a calculated counterweight to the powerful Alexandrian presbyterate.

Only once does he say that the apostles «instituted bishops» in their place of government, 29 to whom, accordingly, obedience is due.30 Like Justin, he seems to regard the whole church as priestly: «I have shown that all the disciples of the Lord are Levites and priests.

One bishop reported that he had to entertain three hundred guests on a single day, not to mention sixty or eighty beggars.34 Then, too, there were scholars whose educational expenses could be defrayed only through a church living, and when the average vicarage comprised, as in England, four thousand acres, 35 why should it not support more than the vicar?

He considered the presbyters sacerdotal only as they participated in the sacrificatory office of the bishop by delegation.

«Zimbabwe is in the grip of a grievous crisis and for this reason the bishops of that country in a recent document indicated prayer and a shared commitment for the common good as the only way forward,» the pope declared.