Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical teaching authority»

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Canon 812 states that anyone teaching Catholic theology in a Catholic institution needs some form of ecclesiastical approval, a «mandate» to teach that comes from the «competent ecclesiastical authority.»

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.

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.

Fearful of heresy from a theologically uneducated layman, the ecclesiastical authorities forbade him to continue teaching until he had gone through a course of study.