Sentences with phrase «before vatican»

Just before Vatican II there was a tremendous reaction away from legalism and casuistry which, it seems, some theologians even wanted the Council to condemn formally.

Before Vatican II, liturgy was out of touch with modern experience; now, however, the pendulum has perhaps swung too far in the opposite direction, reducing the liturgy to a product of such experience.

He wrote three before Vatican II: The Struggle over Roman Catholic Dogma, Conflict with Rome, and New Perspectives in the Rome — Reformation Controversy.

Like others, Crooker notes that some of the most notorious serial offenders were ordained before Vatican II, in «the good old days» when seminaries insisted on obedience to the Magisterium, scorned effeminacy, and were strict about «particular friendships.»

The desire for liturgical reform, above all Mass in the vernacular, was widespread among the clergy, and to some extent among the laity as well, in the decades before Vatican II.

Maritain's talk of a «crisis» in Catholicism evident even before Vatican II was over seemed wholly out of touch with the council's great success at bringing about deep changes Maritain himself, as much as anyone, had long passionately advocated.

At one point, he observed (apropos exactly what I don't recall) that the Church before Vatican II «was like a convent,» and the opening to the world effected by the council was simply necessary.

In the preparatory period before Vatican II, when St. John XXIII asked all the bishops of the world to send in memoranda on the subjects most important for the Council to address, Bishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow suggested organizing all the materials of the Council around two central topics: person and communio.

The rigorous anti-modernism of the decades before Vatican II, however needed it may have been for a time, tried to let the winds of modernity into the Church only one purified breeze at a time.

«When I arrived, it was 1961, just before Vatican II.

For the most part, the Jesuits who had completed their formation before Vatican II have remained faithful to their previous vision of the Church and the Society, and were able to integrate Vatican II into that vision.

It is hard to think one's way back to the times before Vatican II, before ecumenical and self - critical Catholicism, before non-Catholic awareness of intra-Catholic conflict and the like, to reconstruct a plausible basis for such understandings.

It almost seems as if nothing before Vatican II is worth noticing any more.

Roman Catholicism, long before Vatican II, began to stress catechism, preaching and the translation of scripture into the vernacular.

That was before Vatican II.

«Vatican girls.xxx, Vatican sluts.xxx, it's almost infinite - to say nothing of all the obscene words you can put together and all the words not only after but before Vatican.

New propaganda being introduced serving the Israelies after all them knights were serving fighting for Jerusalem beside guarding the treasures and scriptures of wisdom and sorcery... which they learnt to use to gain their richness before the Vatican declared them as sinners and had them killed...!

Before Vatican II, conscience formation by Catholics was one - sidedly paternalistic.

Before Vatican II, Roman Catholics left the Old Covenant relatively inconspicuous at mass, and Episcopalians did the same until recently.

But deliberate and carefully planned change in worship is a new phenomenon in U.S. Protestantism, just as it was unprecedented for Roman Catholics before Vatican II.

I hasten to add that this was long ago and far away — before Vatican II was even a glimmer in Angelo Roncalli's eye.

Not exact matches

Sites like St. Peter's Tomb in the Vatican or the Alhambra fortress in Spain only allow a certain amount of visitors in each day, and you'll need to make those arrangements well before you arrive.

(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI is considering changing the Vatican constitution to allow a vote for his successor to begin before March 15, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Wednesday.

Besides, according to the Vatican, it's ok to blame people for what took place well before their time.

Yet the biblical renaissance imagined before and during Vatican II has not, in the main, taken place.

He went on to become the Archbishop of Sydney and then Archbishop of Melbourne, before becoming the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy in 2014.

Consider this possibility: William F. Buckley may be best understood as a central figure in the golden age of what came to be called the American Catholic Renaissance, which began just before the Second World War and ran through the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

In the weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Pope John Paul II dispatched a Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to the White House with an unequivocal message: Stand down.

It actualy is very close to the origional version used in the United States after Vatican II, before they simplified it a few years later.

Even before she served at the Vatican, noted Fr.

The issues that preoccupied Vatican diplomacy before 1993 have become moot.

If he was disciplinarian before Pope, and there IS a disciplinarian at the Vatican, why didn't Benedict XVI get rid of some of the alleged backstabbers and / or corrupt clergy in the Curia?

The cardinals may to be able to pull it off before March 15, according to Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi.

Long before Pope Francis» off - script, populist touches led some to dub him the «people's pope,» John broke precedent by escaping the Vatican to visit hospitals and prisons.

It was exactly this point that Pope Benedict sought to highlight in an address he gave three days before Christmas to senior staff in the Vatican.

Before he became Pope, he oversaw a tightening of procedures and reform of the way that the Vatican deals with sexual abuse cases that come to it in order to deal with more cases, more efficiently and with greater justice for the victims.

(The Vatican originally said four homeless men joined the Pope's birthday celebration before revising the number late Tuesday.)

Keep in mind that this was before the Second Vatican Council and the many changes and destabilizations that followed in its wake.

According to Vatican Radio, only once before have images of the centuries - old linen cloth been broadcast.

1) Laws have been used and maintained by men long before the catholic church started imposing theirs upon the people 2) The vatican observatory has tried to use its influence to den scientific study and control what is known.

The style of the vatican is to do these things and people say that if thye allowed the calergy to get married that this would not happen, but many of these clergy are abusers before they become catholic clergy, they just have somewhere they can hide.

«Thinking Catholics, who knew what had happened in Rome before the encyclical, who had absorbed all that Vatican II had to say about the Church as the People of God, had assumed that their concerns would be listened to and change in the Church's stance on birth control was inevitable.»

From Gregory XVI to the Declaration of Vatican II on toleration, the Church traveled a long way before it could formulate its position in regard to modern society in a many - sided and to some extent mature form.

Her answers to my series of questions were both astonishing and revealing: She confirmed for me that her academic team did not speak to a single patient, medical analyst, associate, or worker of Mother Teresa's before writing their paper against her; nor did they examine how all her finances were spent; nor did they speak with anyone at the Vatican involved with her sainthood cause, or consult the Vatican's medical board which certified the miracle attributed to Blessed Teresa.

The Guardian: Sistine Chapel tourists to be vacuumed and cooled to protect frescoes The 5 million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel every year are to be vacuum cleaned and cooled down before entry in an effort to reduce the pollution damaging Michelangelo's frescoes, the director of the Vatican museums said.

Millions of people flock to the vatican every year to kneel before and idolize the pope.

Gordon Thomas, a Protestant, was given access to previously unpublished Vatican documents and tracked down victims, priests and others who had not told their stories before.

According to that analysis, it has been characteristic of John Paul II's diplomacy that his dramatic acts of public witness to the importance of freedom» in Poland, before the United Nations, in Cuba, and so on» have stood in tension with the continuing, more traditional, diplomacy of the Vatican, even to the point of contradiction.

When I have tried to introduce the idea of the nontranslatable Qur» an to my Harvard students and Western friends, one of their typical reactions is to think that, like Roman Catholics and the Latin Mass before the Second Vatican Council, Muslims will also soon come to realize the necessity for translation, which will then open them up to higher criticism.

A conversation with Frère Roger a few months before the opening of Vatican II is still alive in my memory.