Sentences with phrase «curia who»

As I once said to a prelate of the Roman curia who was complaining about theological dissent in the United States: «American theologians are not very original.

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1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

... Pope Benedict XVI, who has indicated the hermeneutical principle of reform within continuity... «wherever this interpretation guided the implementation of the Council, new life developed and new fruit ripened» (Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, 22 December 2005).

Even if one does not actually obstruct the Curia's work we would question how up - building it is to one's own faith (and how helpful it is to those who have been entrusted to our pastoral care) to greet every initiative or document coming out of the Curia with instant suspicion.

What the Pope needs is someone who knows the Roman Curia but is not of it, preferably an Italian, someone committed to reform, someone who can actually sweep the place clean.

Inevitably, the massive work of preparing for the council fell mainly to officials of the Roman Curia, who were uniformly entrenched traditionalists and designed a council that would produce none of the changes the pope hoped to see.

«The value of the service rendered by the Roman Curia to the universal Church is not predicated upon the merits and talents of those who work therein»

It is quite possibly true that some of those who work in the Roman Curia may be insulated by their position from many of these painful realities, but the value of the service rendered by the Curia to the universal Church is not predicated upon the merits and talents of those who work therein.

More than a few of the cardinals who rallied to support him in one of the shortest conclaves in modern history did so because they believed Ratzinger, having spent more than two decades in the Curia, would know what was broken and would fix it.»

In one case they prepared an amicus curiae brief regarding the issue of what damages guardians can recover for the death of a companion animal, and in another case they conducted a fact and legal investigation to prepare a lawsuit for a client seeking to recover damages against the individual who intentionally killed his companion dog.

Statement from the environmental and community groups who were granted amicus curiae status by the court — Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, represented by attorneys at Earthjustice and Appalachian Mountain Advocates:

Authored amicus curiae brief for Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA) in Supreme Judicial Court case of great economic significance to condominiums, in which the right of associations under the condominium statute to impose successive liens on owners who withhold condominium fee payments was upheld by the SJC.

He recently authored an amicus curiae brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a case of great economic significance to condominiums, in which the right of associations to impose successive liens on owners who withhold condominium fee payments was upheld by the SJC.

In 2009 Mr. Clark was privileged to act as amicus curiae in the so - called Midway murder trial, assisting the principle accused who opted to represent himself.

Sure enough, PBLO was able to find lawyers at Lerners LLP who agreed to take up the role of amicus curiae.

Amicus curiae (friend - of - the - court) briefs are filed by a person or group who has a strong interest in the outcome of the subject matter of a pending lawsuit even though not themselves a party.

Before the Supreme Court, we note both the specific issue and the area of the law involved, the prevailing party and the vote, the writers and length of all opinions, the number of amicus curiae briefs and who each amicus supported, and of course each Justice's vote.

Professor Olivas was among a group of immigration law scholars who submitted an amici curiae brief in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Department of Homeland Security.

Geoffrey Hoffman was among a group of legal scholars who submitted an amici curiae brief in support of the plaintiff - appellee in the case of City of Chicago v. Sessions.

Professor Geoffrey Hoffman was among a group of legal scholars who submitted an amici curiae brief in support of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Ragbir v. Sessions.

He has Acted as the Special Public Prosecutor in the prosecution of Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist who carried out attacks on Mumbai in November 2008; and has acted as amicus curiae to the Supreme Court in 2011 in the matter of Bachpan Bachao Andolan v. Union of India, where he presented a report on the realities of trafficking of children in India, and assisted the Supreme Court in framing guidelines to deal with the menace of trafficking.

NAR filed an amicus curiae brief, arguing that a violation of § 2607 (b) occurs only when a real estate settlement service provider pays a portion of a settlement service fee to a third party who performs no services in exchange for the fee.