Sentences with phrase «but schismatic»

Not exact matches

A decree of the Council of Florence (1438 - 45) said that «The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and proclaims that none of those who are outside the Catholic church — not only pagans, but Jews also, heretics and schismatics — can have part in eternal life, but will go into eternal fire.»

Heretics and schismatics were those who thought of themselves as Christian but did not agree with the Holy Roman Church.

The Eastern Churches have their family squabbles and have had minor schisms; but are still formally united in belief and practice, so which Church do you think is propably the schismatic?

The Catholic Church teaches that it is the Easter Churches that are the schismatics; but there are five ancient Patriarches (actually 7 at one time, but two did not survive: the Churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, Antioch and Rome.

But he warned in a recent book preface that «schismatic temptations and dogmatic confusion» were sown as a result of the debate over the document and said such confusion was «dangerous for the unity of the Church.»

I hope that Joanna's reporting is true but a serious difficulty arises here: would the mother of the Catholic Church want conversions to the partly heretical, schismatic Orthodox Church, which does not acknowledge the supreme authority of the Pope?

BTW, Catholics are taught that the Eastern Churches are the schismatics; but if were five ancient patriarchs at the time of the schism and four of them are still in communion with each other which one is most likely to be the schismatic?

In some cases they encouraged Christian proselytizing and in others they sought to bring the schismatics into the Roman Catholic fold, but their aim was always to create a «clientele» of the European power.

Gregarious yet utterly unrepentant, he speaks directly to the camera, without interference from interviewers or talking heads, expounding on (but never apologizing for) his career and schismatic critical reputation.