Sentences with phrase «at synod»

At the synod, the bishops who pushed for détente with the sexual revolution pursued the old, pre-Leonine mode of Catholic engagement with the public square.

In England the Christian era was adopted at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it did not become general in Europe until the eleventh century, and in the Greek world not until the fifteenth.

[2] As a result, in parts the document strains under the effort of trying to do justice to everything that was said by the many bishops present at the Synod.

From different Protestant churches, they declared their opposition to Hitler at the Synod of Barmen in 1934.

At any rate, this celebrated love lyric, whose admission to the Hebrew canon was vigorously withstood and was not finally settled until about 90 A.D., (At the Synod of Jamnia, although even later Rabbi Akibah pronounced condemnation on those who sang snatches from this book in wine houses.)

I think it's unlikely that the Kasper proposal will play the role at Synod 2015 that it did at Synod 2014.

I need the Vicar of Christ and those gathered with him at the Synod to proclaim the Lord Jesus's Good News about marriage and family with evangelizing zeal and commitment.

Just as those who dissented from Humanae Vitae were able to use a seeming openness to their point of view in the process that preceded the encyclical to legitimize their view, so too will dissenters find justification for their positions in the debates at the Synod.

There is a further dimension to this work which has been evoked at the Synod, and that is the wider cultural engagement demanded of the Church in countries with a strongly secular environment.

In addition to noting that the fact that the question was given such attention at the Synod and that those who were the strongest advocates were given special prominence by the Holy Father, they can reasonably claim that they have been given permission to proceed to use the «internal forum» for readmission.

Yet reading parts of the Catholic press in the UK, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Church was on the brink of relaxing her prohibition on the divorced and re-married receiving Holy Communion, even that this was a central issue at the Synod.

In this time of discussion, I hope the bishops at the Synod on the Family remember the remarkable accomplishment of the last half century.

Of course that bonding, as it is called, between North American and Latin American bishops was evident also at the synod in Rome, but Latin America is an impossibly big and diffuse reality.

The participants included 262 bishops, 56 cardinals, 91 experts and delegates (30 of whom were women - the most ever at a synod).

What I have discovered in these days before the conclave is that many of the issues being raised here are the same issues that were raised at the synod.

The fact that there was considerable resistance to these views at the synod was in no way reflected in the first version of the «mid-term report» (entitled relatio post disceptationem), an effusion which bore all the hallmarks of an attempted PR coup (the word «coup» isn't over the top here: spin, in our time, is one pathway to the seizure of effective power).

There were very human moments at the synod when this shift manifested itself.

The unity of Latin America, counterbalancing the colossus of the North, was also a not - so - subliminal point at the Synod for America held in Rome at the end of 1997, on which I am now writing a book.

So by all means, let's have «no maneuvering» at Synod - 2018.

There's a lot the bishops at Synod - 2018 could learn from Mr. Martin's experience.

God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

It's been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not «holiday») shopping list: God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style....

Indeed, at a synod held in 486, the Persian church officially accepted the Nestorian position.

An attempt to reconcile the two traditions was made at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it was Theodore of Tarsus, who came to England as Archbishop in 668, who united the Christians in England and who was the first bishop whom all English Christians were willing to obey.

1 In light of these words, the participants at the synod will have to face the great pastoral challenge of being faithful heralds of the joy of the gospel of marriage.

The document will be used as a guideline for discussions at a synod, a meeting of top Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis, to be held in Rome in October.

Other topics to be addressed at the Synod include contraception, and in vitro fertilization, cohabitation, separated, divorced and remarried persons, and teen mothers.

That «something,» I suggest, is the vibrant, New Testament - style faith found in the Catholic Church in Africa, whose leaders, at Synod 2014, challenged the leaders of German Catholicism to stand firm in the «faith once delivered to the saints» [Jude 1:3].

No book better dissects the issues - beneath - the - issues at these Synods than this brilliant analysis of the sexual revolution, i.e., «the destigmatization and demystification of nonmarital sex and the reduction of sexual relations in general to a kind of hygienic recreation in which anything goes so long as those involved are consenting adults.»

At Synods 2014 and (especially) 2015, however, we gathered that the prelates were having the nearest thing prelates ever have to a knock - down, drag - out fight over whether the divorced and remarried should be admitted to the sacraments, even when they had been practicing Catholics all their lives and married in the Church to boot.

And this, I might add parenthetically, was the issue beneath the issues at the synods of 2014 and 2015: the obedience of the Church to divine revelation, in which we find the Church's constitutive «form.»

Not exact matches

The document is Pope Francis» official response to the two major meetings of bishops he hosted at the Vatican to discuss marriage and family issues — the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014 and Synod of the Bishops in 2015.

But, after this fairly standard encounter, a weary observer might note that battle lines over Amoris laetitia have not moved much from where they were at the extraordinary synod in the fall of 2014.

At its 1962 convention, the synod had received a public apology from Martin Scharlemann, professor of New Testament at the seminarAt its 1962 convention, the synod had received a public apology from Martin Scharlemann, professor of New Testament at the seminarat the seminary.

Earlier this year I was the lone Reformed speaker at a conference of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

The wonder, though, is that it appears never to have made him sympathize at all with J. A. O. Preus» attempt to find a way to make authoritative decisions within the synod.

Each man was at least as much mastered by as master of forces at work within the synod.

I'll say, and the Synod of the Church of England just admitted women bishops, the Jews and Muslims in Palestine are at each other's throats again, and a new dinosaur with 4 wings was just dug up in China (no doubt planted by Satan).

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

The controversy over Amoris laetitia dates back to October 2014, when the catastrophic Relatio post disceptationem was released at the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, and the ensuing debate has been almost constant.

The Church of England carried on discussions over sexuality at its General Synod (when is it not talking about sexuality) but it was its advice to its schools which hit the front pages that encouraged teachers to let pupils cross dress.

But the arguments at the two synods were pivotal.

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

«We do not know if at the end of the coming October synod, the process will end, or if the Pope will convoke a third synod.

Others, like the majority of delegates at the recent Minneapolis Synod Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, oppose the amendment.

Erwin, a scholar at California Lutheran University, will serve a six - year term representing the Southwest California Synod, a five - county area that includes Los Angeles.

Even the questions concerning the pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, and of homosexual couples — both topics of heated debate at last October's Synod of Bishops — are in the end based on theological foundations, and deal with the application of doctrine.

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

He finds it in the Missouri Synod struggle as well as in the difficulties he encountered at Seminex and in the new Lutheran denominations formed out of the controversy.

First, Tietjen insists that at the heart of the debate was the question of what it means to be Lutheran, particularly within the Missouri Synod tradition.