Sentences with phrase «as bishops while»

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... More

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».

Well Willard that brings me to another question if Romney also served as a bishop while being governor, how did he infuse his church doctrine into public office?

Not exact matches

The arrangement of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013, when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop of Qatar.»

Charles Krauthammer called it an «accounting gimmick,» as did Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, writing for National Review Online, where he said Obama's compromise was a «farce,» a «snare and a delusion» designed to permit «bishops, priests, and nuns to save face while, in fact, paying for the contraception and abortifacients that the insurance companies will be required to provide.»

The New York Times noted that the bishops have an «idea» that religious Americans are «the victims of government - backed persecution», while painting their decision to eliminate adoption services as slamming the door in the face of the loving members of the gay community.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

keep in mind that this is the home of both the forward thinking (Nobel Prize winning Archbishop Tutu) as well as the African Bishops who stone gays and women as «God work» while maintaining plural marriages and cozying up to African dictatorswith the blood of literaly millions of thier own flock on thier hands (Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe)

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

It is odd that the Bell case, in many ways as searingly important as Captain Dreyfus was to Zola's generation of Frenchmen, has so far barely raised a whisper in English public life, while disputes about homosexual clergy or women bishops command attention.

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.

Is this even a cause of the current divergent disciplines laid down by bishops with regard to giving communion to those in irregular situations, described as more «pastoral» while in mutual contradiction?

As the bishops wrote: «While an alternative dish is often available, it is questioned whether it is advisable in our mixed society for a Catholic to appear singular in this matter.

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

The original New Testament as formulated by a group of «Bishops» seeking recognition as the state religion of Rome, they were housed, fed and cared for by Constantine for several years while they argued about which texts to include.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

Significantly, the bishop retained his unique baptismal role in the regenerative act of baptism somewhat longer than his eucharistic pre-eminence; and even after finally giving up the baptizing of all catechumens outside his own parish, he preserved, at least in the West, the confirmation thereof as a distinct and essential ceremony, while in the East it was he alone who could bless the oils used by priests in baptism and confirmation.

But Gregory did not develop a doctrine of the indelibility of ordination, while the weighty contemporaneous Apostolic Constitutions supply an ordaining prayer beseeching God never to withdraw his Holy Spirit.50 At the Council of Chalcedon (canon 29) the Eastern fathers will presently give evidence of continuing uncertainty as to whether, for example, a bishop for disciplinary reasons may be reduced to the rank of presbyter, or whether he should be eliminated from the clergy altogether and classed as a layman.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

The Catholic Bishops» Conference of Nigeria has said that contrary to the promise made by President Muhammadu Buhari to belong to everybody while being sworn in as the President in 2015, he has failed to demonstrate the statement in governance in the last two years.