Sentences with phrase «as the bishops began»

The ministry of episkopé continued this eucharistic focus, as bishops began to serve among the congregations, unifying the Eucharist of the local communities and that of the universal church.

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Up here in Canada, something similar is going on as Lutheran Church — Canada and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops recently began talks).

If complying with the mandate means violating Church teaching, as the bishops seem to say, then non-compliance must begin at the very start.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

(CNN)- As Catholic bishops in Rome began a major meeting on modern family life two weeks ago, Pope Francis encouraged them to speak candidly and «without timidness.»

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.

The idea that Catholic just war teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

The third root of the U.S. bishops» recasting of the Catholic conception of just war as beginning with a presumption against war was the pragmatic need to find a compromise between proponents of traditional Catholic just war theory and those Catholics who, under a variety of influences, had come to regard their faith as opposing war altogether.

He began his address by noting a bishop whom he thinks has demonstrated the pastoral method of accompaniment: «I have just met with a group of persons abused as children, who are helped and accompanied here in Philadelphia with particular care by Archbishop Chaput...»

They begin as parish priests, and later are appointed bishops and archbishops and, later, are named cardinals by the pope.

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.

In the absence of proof that the God so confidently invoked by the orthodox bishop really exists in the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacy.

It was not until about a century after Jesus that Christians began to regard as normal an ecclesiastical structure which had bishops as its chief administrative officers.

We could do worse than begin with the call issued by the American bishops a few years ago to their people, in which they announced the aim of their evangelisation initiative as «to let every American know they are freely invited to join us in the fullness of Catholic faith».

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Luther was becoming a substitute guardian and bishop: «If that man's case is as he described it, my Nicholas, then I think he may lawfully keep his wife, since the former husband deserted her such a long time ago... The visitation has begun.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

CHI St. Vincent Infirmary began as a 10 - bed «charity hospital» in 1888 by the bishop of Little Rock, five nuns, seven physicians and Catholic philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hager.