Sentences with phrase «doctrinal assessment»

She said she is heartbroken and angry about the Vatican's doctrinal assessment that the leadership group representing most American nuns has been challenging the church's doctrine on homosexuality, the male - only priesthood, artificial birth control, celibacy and abortion.

«What's happening here with the doctrinal assessment is just the latest, and will have the most lasting effects, of a Vatican attempt to reassert the power they traditionally held over women's religious life,» Cummings says.

In a statement afterward, the nuns said, «The meeting had been requested by the LCWR to address what the conference considered deficiencies in the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.»

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.

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The «assessment reveals serious doctrinal problems,» said the report, which called for major reforms.

In his sober assessment of the current state of post-conciliar Catholicism, Ross Douthat argues that Cardinal Newman's 1845 theory of doctrinal development should be updated to account for subsequent developments.

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

For it must, of course, be recognized and acknowledged that process philosophy poses problems of assessment — of prioritization and doctrinal evaluation — that involve intimate doctrinal as well as historical affinities with Continental thought.

It requires doctrinal theology for critical assessment of the ideological distortion and faithlessness of its practices insofar as they are statements of its outlook, and it calls for constructive proposals of preferable formulations of its outlook.