Sentences with phrase «by these church officials»

Advocates for victims saw the posts as a sign of favour for Law by church officials unrepentant about abused children.

Reese responds, «If someone is called to the priesthood by God but denied it by church officials, then it is not a violation of a human right; it is a violation of a divine right — the right of God to call whomever he chooses to the priesthood.»

The editors doubt that «either of these outcomes would be regarded as satisfactory by church officials.»

And it is, as it had been a hundred years earlier, largely the work of clergy and religiously active lay educators, who find themselves opposed by church officials and some tendentious colleagues who give every sign of being intellectually cramped and authoritarian.

And now he was rejecting that absolute obligation, and the committing of the self under Canon Law, rejecting it in favour of a new freedom — a freedom which he believed to be the heart of the message of the Word, a freedom indeed to be bound, not by the rules of men, not by Church officials, but solely by the bonds of grace, which themselves issued in another, greater freedom.

The diverse and powerful forms of evangelism often uncontrolled by church officials influenced modern Christianity far more profoundly than did a liberal deconstruction of religion.

When one reads the records and documents of sixteenth - century church administration, one can not but be surprised at the innumerable details which were submitted by the church officials to the prince for his personal decision.

Hoskins and Schaub, who had no inkling that anything was ever amiss at their idyllic high school, serve as ready - made characters through which «Keepers» director Ryan White («The Case Against 8») can sort through a story that is painfully tangled up in broader, awful details of ritual rape and a coverup by both church officials and local police.

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Once Kelley exited the church, Martin, the DPS official, said, Kelley was «engaged» by a rifle - wielding resident who lives next - door to the church.

The event, a first in the history of Mexico, where 82 % of the population is Catholic, was only announced by the church after it took place as officials feared people might misinterpret the ritual.

However, Church officials have responded, saying: «The objectives of the Shared Conversations on Sexuality, Scripture and Mission were set out in June 2014 by the Bishop of Sheffield in GS Misc 1083.

The problem has not gone away, however, a fact that was perhaps most stunningly confirmed by the jaw - dropping news that a crackpot September 11 conspiracy book, written by a «process» theologian from Claremont, is being published and marketed by the official press of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster John Knox Press.

In mid-August he was selected, or called (as Mormons say) by local church officials to serve in an LDS Church leadership position in San Franchurch officials to serve in an LDS Church leadership position in San FranChurch leadership position in San Francisco.

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In fact, covering it all up is official church policy and was set down by the Pope when he was head of the Congregration of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan (Church of Satan dot com) Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above - ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man's true nature — that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence.

The Church's official witness to this covenant - making, the ordained priest, exercises his unique form of priesthood by offering the Church's recognition of, and blessing on, what the couple, in their exercise of the priesthood of the baptized, have covenanted together.

The head of the Catholic Church in Germany expressed «sadness, horror and shame» Friday that children were abused by priests and church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.&Church in Germany expressed «sadness, horror and shame» Friday that children were abused by priests and church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.&church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.»

Buddhist monks and Taoist priests hired by the officials came to chant and perform rites in front of the church.

Getting people into church seems to be Pope Francis» primary mission these days, as made clear by his most recent official statement, a 50,000 - word pep talk to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

The appointment of the bishop, which hasn't been done with the blessing of the Anglican church groups in the UK, is expected to be condemned by senior church officials.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

Pakistani security forces were on high alert across the country on Monday, following a suicide attack on a church by the Islamic State group that killed nine people, officials said.

In a region roiled by competing religious and political visions, Francis» chosen companions communicate an unmistakable message, church officials said.

But the lawyer for the plaintiffs, supported by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said unlike legislatures, Greece had no official policy on prayers.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as orthodox but heterodox by the church's official leadership.

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

By 1702 the Anglican Church became the official religion of the colony, although its members were not in the majority.

Though the English allowed the Dutch Reformed Church to receive public support by taxation, they sought the official establishment of Anglicanism as the religion of the colony.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

After we had both cooled off a bit, he agreed that decisions regarding the use of the church could not properly be made by university officials no matter who owned the property.

It is basically a short story written by one of the brothers who is an atheist and tells the story of how the official church responds to Jesus when he shows up in the 16th century.

Here too «change» for the future probably to a large extent will consist in transferring responsibility from direct regulation by the official Church to the individual and his conscience.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

For given not only the sinfulness but also the limitations of human beings, there will always be a difference between the official morality proclaimed by the Church and that which is practiced by the average Christian.

yeah i guess u r right all those 1000s and tens of 1000s of kids who were abused by priests and other church officials believe the same, eh?

The obedience of a St Francis of Assisi to his heavenly vocation was obedience to a call which did not come through the intermediary of the Church's hierarchy, however true it may be to insist that it remained within the limits of the official Church and was tested and approved by the Church's ministers.

The nature and general dignity of all prayer are not enhanced by the official authorization of the Church, at least not through the addition of another, superior value.

In the Pauline churches official leaders such as apostles, prophets, and teachers were present, but in the act of gathered worship their role as leaders was muted by the Spirit's urging and prompting of contributions by every group member.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

Entering the Old City at the historic Jaffa Gate, Demetrios was ceremonially welcomed by the bishops and priests of the Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Israeli government and municipal officials, a police honor guard, six bemedaled consuls - general, representatives of the Roman Catholic, Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, two uniformed Dragomen, a baton tossing drum - major, the Arab Orthodox Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, uniformed schoolgirls, scores of monks, nuns, reporters, cameramen and a smattering of curious tourists.

But even without such a heretical solution she will realize that in view of the complicated conditions of our time in the moral sphere, too, many cases can no longer be decided directly by the official judgment of the Church, but must be left to the individual conscience guided by the great norms of the gospel which she announces.

The LDS Church does have one «official translation» which is decided solely by the president of the LDS Church.

Would foreign churches continue to recognize the official German Evangelical Church, represented ecumenically abroad at that time by Bishop Theodor Heckel, an outspoken apologist for the regime?

In addition, the Utah church is actively engaged in spreading the LDS message via official and quasi-official publications, television and radio programs and spot announcements, visitors» center activities, local ward open houses and genealogy classes, and even by using billboards, bumper stickers, and multipaged advertisements in the Reader's Digest.

Even the Catholic Church uses this anthropology in a few of its official statements like the Second Vatican Council's Gaudium et Spes, and statements by national bishops conferences in Peru and the Netherlands, as well as the Vatican's 1986 Instruction on Liberation Theology.

If you listed every single good deed done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.