Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical authority which»

However, to their dismay, and naturally to his own at the time, he was refused permission to do a doctorate by ecclesiastical authority which was suspicious of his originality and fearful of his ability to communicate with and inspire especially the young.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, once it was no longer a sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

It should be made clear to the reader of these pages that the Disciples had no ecclesiastical structure above the local church by which this or any other issue could be settled by authority.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

Never fully at ease with ecclesiastical life (which in these books seems pretty awful), they find comfort in relationships with male authority figures.

This weakening may be the ecclesiastical counterpart of that decline of respect for authority which has occurred among men who first having thought themselves masters of their fate then, as mass - men, became the prey of powers which moved them about not as persons but as things or bundles of conditionable reflexes.

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

I can only respond that it's an absurd process, which won't prove anything, but is intended simply as a mechanism to jettison deviant OMs who refuse to bow to the ecclesiastical authorities who occupy our church bureaucracy.

I prefer Von Campenhausen's scholarly Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power, which comes to some similar conclusions about the post-apostolic early church.)

It is not difficult to follow the writer in his rejection of the understanding opaque and authoritarian» understanding of revelation associated with ecclesiastical authority and theological dogmatism.58 Such understandings lead to the mistaken idea that there are propositions which count as «revealed truths.»

But if a university is liberated from external ecclesiastical authority, an internal system of discipline must be instituted in order to ensure that its teaching remains consistent with the tradition to which it belongs.

Like the Franciscan also it protests against the ecclesiastical order, a protest which appeals to the New Testament witness to Jesus Christ in judgment against the authority of the ecclesiastical tradition.

By «get it» I mean that he still seems to believe that he personally behaved appropriately in the circumstances by which the late Father Brendan Smyth, a rapacious paedophile of almost unimaginable moral corruption, was tacitly permitted by the Church to continue brutally abusingchildren for 40 years, long after the ecclesiastical authorities knew what he was up to.»

Neither is the second paragraph of canon 392 (c. 392) which urges bishops to «exercise vigilance so that abuses do not creep into ecclesiastical discipline, especially regarding the ministry of the word, the celebration of the sacraments... the worship of God...» Although theSecond Vatican Council restored to bishops a greater measure of legitimate authority in their own dioceses, it did not liberate them from applying the «common discipline» as promulgated by the Church's Supreme Legislator, the Holy Father.

They treated adherents of the respective Eastern Churches — Orthodox, Armenian, Jacobite, and the like — as distinct communities or nations and recognized their ecclesiastical authorities as the heads through which to deal with them.

But it had an air of ecclesiastical authority and of learning which impressed Luther.

With their new classical names, and their insights into history and literature, their attitudes stretched all the way from a lampooning of the gullible piety of the masses to a more philosophical agnosticism or a mysticism, which stood apart from ecclesiastical authority.

And although the Diocesan Bishop controls respondent Monastery of St. Sava and is the principal officer of respondent property - holding corporations, the civil courts must accept that consequence as the incidental effect of an ecclesiastical determination that is not subject to judicial abrogation, having been reached by the final church judicatory in which authority to make the decision resides.

Nevertheless the Supreme Court of Illinois substituted its interpretation of the Diocesan and Mother Church constitutions for that of the highest ecclesiastical tribunals in which church law vests authority to make that interpretation.

In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.