Sentences with phrase «as full communion»

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As for the Orthodox, «Pope Benedict emphasizes that we are already in nearly full ecclesial communion with these churches.»

Even the communions most closely identified with colonial powers — such as the Anglican — have full sanctuaries.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

If, on the one hand, the goal of full communion between all mainstream Christian denominations seems as far away as ever, I would want to say, on the other, that there is a sense in which fundamental aims of the mid-20th-century ecumenical movement have already been achieved.

He does quote, evidently with approval, Avery Cardinal Dulles» explanation: «Full communion, as I understand it, will require the acceptance by both Catholics and Orthodox of all the dogmas that are held by the other community to be matters of faith.»

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 the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

Last year I received two adults into full communion who had been baptised as infants but never brought up in the faith.

He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».

In those bodies, once describing themselves as the ecumenical churches, it seems that nobody of influence is pressing for or is even seriously thinking about the visible unity in full communion under discussion here.

As the Princeton Proposal makes painfully clear, ecumenism as the quest for full communion has, in the West, come upon very hard timeAs the Princeton Proposal makes painfully clear, ecumenism as the quest for full communion has, in the West, come upon very hard timeas the quest for full communion has, in the West, come upon very hard times.

If ecumenism is understood as the quest for full visible unity, and if full visible unity is understood as what the Catholic Church means by «full communion,» then it is perhaps not quite accurate to speak of «the role» of the Catholic Church.

The hoped - for consequence of the Catholic Church's irrevocable devotion to full communion among all Christians will bring with it changes that we can not now anticipate, as is also made clear in Ut Unum Sint.

they could, as countless converts to Roman Catholicism have done before them including many former Anglo - Catholics, apply to enter into full communion through the normal processes.

We may be called on to catechise others in the Church, such as children and young people or adults seeking full communion with Christ.

The whole issue of contraception was one that we had to struggle to understand as we came into full communion.

Half - a-dozen years before he administered to me the grace of full communion he came to serve as the pastor of St. John's, the church on the Creighton University campus, where I then taught.

The reaction of shame before the other, of wife before husband or vice versa, betrays an awareness that the urge to bodily intercourse is not of the same human quality as the desire for the communion of persons, and can not give this desire full effect.

He saw off once and for all the so - called «alternative magisterium» of Kung, Schillebeeckx and their ilk: and as a result he made it possible for hundreds of thousands of non-Catholics like myself, tired of the uncertaintiesof secularised versions of Christianity, to come into full communion with the Holy See.