Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical authority who»

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.

It is at the point of conflict with the ruling ecclesiastical authorities who tried to silence the witness of Christians to their faith that the question of fidelity to the higher authority of God became most overt.

Not exact matches

Those who prize the freedom of the spirit must also question the control of the marriage covenant by ecclesiastical authority, as in Israel today, and as in traditional Roman Catholic practice.

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.

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 ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of living.

He was exceedingly discriminating in the appointment of new bishops, examining them carefully, not hesitating to reject one or propose another.10 He was equally strict in taking away ecclesiastical privileges from clerics who abused their authority.

While the publication of Luther's 95 theses was intended only for scholarly debate, his challenge to papal authority not only evoked a strong ecclesiastical charge of heresy, but found sympathetic support from the laity, anti-clericals, German nationalists, humanists and the poor and ordinary people who heard him preach, and culminated in his defense by his sovereign, Frederick the Elector of Saxony.

Some ecclesiastical lawyers argue that by allowing civil unions to take place the government will leave religious groups at the mercy of local authorities, who have a legal obligation to ensure equality in the provision of goods and services.