Sentences with phrase «curiae for»

The judge ruled Al - Enzi would instead have appointed an amicus curiae for the remainder of the trial.

Another alternative is greater use of amicus curiae for unrepresented or self - represented parties in complex trials.

Not exact matches

and some of them are in the curia and the Pope has covered for them all.

His respect for women is established in scripture as is His disrespect for the man - made rules of the Pharisees and their successors in the Roman curia.

Vatican Council II calls for the restoration of the collegiality, but the Curia has been able to block any decentralizing of authoritative power so far.

«The reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the congregations preceding the Conclave,» Francis said, referring to the meetings that led up to his election in March.

Despite profound skepticism on the part of many in the curia, John Paul pressed forward at the eve of the new millennium with plans for a series of reflections that might allow the world «to draw lessons from the past,» so as to choose life in what had become a culture of darkness.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

Milligan favors the continued financial corruption of the Curia, because if malfeasance and embezzlement were to cease, it would represent a victory for Pell.

The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.

Their bishops were in the «curia» of he western monarchies and they had RCC nobility (cardinals) in all of the royal courts advising the monarch and speaking for the Pope.

From the perspective of the peripheries the Curia seems like a medieval relic, something unnecessary for the Church's mission that can safely be abolished.

We are still waiting for an obvious and effective reform of the curia, and brotherly collegiality in the Church is not much more than a fine word.

Yet we are not inclined to look for the devil in the pope or the Curia.

Many church groups filed amicus curiae briefs urging that the court declare a constitutional requirement of property tax exemption for churches.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

Pope Francis has innumerable issues begging for his attention: the evangelization of peoples, continued ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, standing firm against relativism and unhealthy secularism, outreach to the young and the alienated, the reform of the curia, the restructuring of the Vatican bank, and on and on the list continues.

In their famous final meeting, Pope Francis told Cardinal Gerhard Müller that he wanted to limit the time in office for heads of dicasteries in the Curia to five years, and that Müller was «the first to whom the rule would have applied.»

So now there are supposed to be two restrictions in place for people working in the Curia: a single five - year term, and an age - limit of seventy - five years.

The fact is that the exercise of papal governance is deeply affected, for good or ill, by the competence of the Curia and its senior officials.

The generic character of John XXIII's original intentions for the Council, of course, was essentially responsible for much of the subsequent struggle between the Council Fathers and the Roman curia, the latter being accustomed to dealing with «live issues» rather than with general goals of development.

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.

Ratzinger's position in the Curia makes it clear that he is not simply speaking for himself, but in the name of the Vatican, which has been carrying on an undercover investigation of liberation theologians.

Obviously the Roman Curia bears a heavier responsibility because, as Pope Paul VI stated: «It is that instrument needed by the Pope for the fulfilment of his mission.»

When they met for their pre-conclave meetings back in 2013, the College of Cardinals focused much of their discussion on the dysfunctionality of the Roman Curia.

Many of them asked for more participation on the part of cardinals living beyond Rome in the Curia's decision making processes.

The first modification to Pastor Bonus, the 1988 pastoral constitution that regulates the functions and tasks of the offices of the Roman Curia, came on July 9 with the transfer of the ordinary section of the Administration for the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) to the Secretariat for Economy.

In their five meetings, the cardinals have discussed several hypotheses for streamlining the Roman Curia.

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.

Francis has sought to make the Curia more accountable while at the same time enhancing the role of local episcopal conferences, maybe swapping one problem for another.

While the Pope can not be held responsible for the good manners or personal probity of every individual that works for the Curia, nonetheless Christus Dominus, one of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, clearly states: «The Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (italics added).

Nobody suggests that the Curia ought to be like The Bells of St. Mary's, but this book reveals an attitude of clerical righteousness combined with a contempt for financial niceties.

Regarding the Curia, the Second Vatican Council taught as follows: «In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (Christus Dominus, 9).

But I can see a time in the future when we will have the calls for the Franciscan papacy's Curia to be reformed as people react against his teachings, as they have reacted against the teachings of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

He reorganized the Vatican curia and bureaucracy, set up several important post-Conciliar commissions, expanded collegiality with synods of bishops, increased the role of the laity, reached out to the larger Christian community, solidified the Church's relationship with the Jewish community, made impassioned appeals for peace and on behalf of the poor, and undertook major reforms of the liturgy.

That was easily attended to, and it certainly needed to be done, for financial reasons — the last thing Albrecht wanted was for the preachers to provoke a reaction which would reduce his takings and upset his arrangements with the Fugger and the Roman Curia.

Pope Benedict XVI has been in office for less than a year, and already there are rumblings of dissatisfaction (in some quarters of disquiet, in others of impatience), aroused by the — so far — slow progress of what everyone seems from the beginning to have assumed will be one of the new pope's priorities: the reform of the Roman Curia.

Given that some two - thirds of the Church's bishops and cardinals, a great proportion of the Roman Curia, and indeed many of the world's seminary professors, have studied in the Roman Pontifical universities, the STOQ project is seen to be crucial as away of educating the Church to understand better the contribution of the Church to science, the need for the Church's dialogue with the world of the scientist, and the insights the Church can gain from the findings of modern science.

Twenty years ago, when I wrote the amicus curiae brief for the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA) in the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman — the landmark case on aid to parochial schools — I truly believed we could win.

COAR (Coalition for Open Adoption Records) obtained amicus curiae status to put forward their side in this court case, supporting the position of the Ontario government.

Reforming a dysfunctional Roman curia which is, by various accounts, sclerotic, lazy, factional, self - serving, secretive or actively corrupt will be high up on the to - do list, but so may a decisive and dramatic public gesture, signalling the church's sorrow and repentance for its crimes.

After listening to the submissions of all the parties in the case as well as three amicus curia (friends of the court), the court adjourned indefinitely for judgment.

Two of the three legal experts - amicus curiae (friends of the court)-- invited by the Supreme Court have called for their removal.

Their duty as an amicus curiae is to analyse the issue as a non-partisan party not to take a position on it; you leave the rest for the court to do.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro filed an amicus - curiae brief today with the United State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in support of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation and the Public Service Commission of the State of New York's motion seeking to stay the implementation of a new capacity zone ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Angelo Ancheta, counsel of record for the AERA amicus curiae brief, said he expects a divided court and a possible 4 to 4 vote (with Justice Kagan again not participating in the decision).

06, Ed.D.» 11, is serving as counsel of record for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA in an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief filed for a case set to be argued before the United States Supreme Court.

Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality of K — 12 voluntary desegregation policies.

Brief amicus curiae of Harvard Graduate School of Education Students for Diversity filed.

T - Mobile asked the court on Sept. 28 for leave to submit a brief of amicus curiae («friend of the court») to prevent the injunction, as it would affect its holiday sales this year.