Sentences with word «episcopate»

And still the German episcopate suggests that more dumbing down of Catholic doctrine and practice is the answer, now on a global scale.

He moved away from the congregationalism of his disciples heritage toward a more integrated form of church structure which he sometimes referred to as «connectionalism» In the course of time he became ready to accept the historic episcopate.

«The American episcopate has been strong in its defence of the liberty of the Church against the attacks of the Obama administration, and a healthy majority of our bishops now think of themselves as evangelists as well as administrators.

From the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has worked decisively for a correct understanding of the Council... «the «hermeneutic of reform», of renewal in the continuity of the one subject - Church»... Compiled in collaboration with the entire Episcopate of the Catholic Church, this Catechism... includes «the new and the old (cfr.

So much pain, so much sorrow, must lead to a holier priesthood, a holier episcopate, and a holier Church.»

It is true that Keble had reacted to the reorganisation of the Irish episcopate by preaching his Assize sermon, but that was seen as an encroachment on Church authority.

One reply offered the following statement by John Paul II to establish that the teaching of the Catechism was more than just that of «the Vatican»: «It can be said», the Pope had asserted, «that this Catechism is the result of the collaboration of the whole Episcopate of the Catholic Church, who generously accepted my invitation to share responsibility for an enterprise which directly concerns the life of the Church.

All this was done, of course, without the authority of Rome or the national episcopate, and after the collapse of communism the Church tried to straighten out the resulting confusions.

One advantage would accrue prom the maintenance of diversity: the institution of a «conciliar» form of church authority, indeed a corporate episcopate, as the preferred form of ecumenical fulfillment.

Who would the persons participating in the conciliar episcopate be likely to be?

Not to have a valid episcopate through apostolic succession or not to have the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharist (which is tied to the sacrament of orders) constitutes a theological, not moral, defect.

This problem was flagged up for Archbishop Nichols» attention immediately his name had been announced for Westminster, by the redoubtable Daphne McLeod, mild - mannered scourge of the English episcopate, who in a welcoming piece for The Flock brought tohis attention once more an issue he would undoubtedly be glad to be able to ignore:

This could be an early and, for many, decisive test of his new episcopate.

[16] Thus, Newman's high regard for his own bishop is transmuted into a regard for the real authority exercised by the Catholic episcopate, and for the occupant of the Holy See.

There was a vicious official campaign against the Polish Bishops in the 1960s when they initiated a letter to the German episcopate offering a message of healing and mutual forgiveness.

Popieluszko denied any knowledge of the material and was released on bail after the intervention of Archbishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, the secretary of the Polish episcopate.

For much of the seventeenth century, as during part of the Anglo - Saxon period, the discipline of the English Church in effect resembled that of the Greek, with a married parish clergy presided over by a celibate episcopate.

I read it as an unintentional cri du coeur: a confession of catechetical disaster and pastoral failure on a nationwide scale, to which the German episcopate has no response save to urge others down the path that has led Catholicism in Germany into profound incoherence.

John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

Throughout their report they invoke John Paul II and, most particularly, his exhortation that out of this crisis must come «a holier priesthood, a holier episcopate, a holier Church.»

In the long run the Pope's authority was not exercised at the expense of the Irish episcopate, but rather in order to renew and to strengthen it.

The reform of the episcopate it envisioned will be realized in bishops who follow the model of the great teacher - bishops of the past: Clement, Leo the Great, and Gregory the Great; Ambrose and Augustine; Athanasius and John Chrysostom; Charles Borromeo and Francis de Sales; Clemens von Galen and Ildefonso Schuster; Andrey Sheptytsky and Karol Wojtyla.

And when the episcopate itself acts as though it doesn't believe the Christian message, why should the rest of us bother to listen?

He argues that Catholicism needs a renewal of holiness, and that only the saints formed by such a renewal can reform the priesthood, the episcopate and the entire church through their courageous embrace of the fullness of Catholic truth and tradition.

The episcopate, however, resisted any vision that accorded a greater role to the laity, and feared the laypeople who sought to articulate such a vision.

In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.

«They must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»

Of the recommendations made by the Board, most have to do with the reform of the episcopate.

Those in the episcopate are looking not only for pastoral solutions but also for evangelistic outreach.

Priests who are outspoken and are proven pastors of souls are too often excluded from the episcopate in favor of chancery clerks whose chief virtue is not having blotted their copybooks.

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

They function as the unheralded eyes and ears of the episcopate in the multicultural and marginal societies.

What does not seem to be widely understood is that the Eastern Churches have very distinct theological, liturgical, and spiritual cultures in which the practice of ordaining married men to the priesthood (but not to the episcopate) must be understood.

If women in the episcopate are not considered worth such consensus, one must ask, «what is?»

Without knowing how it will be parsed out, I can say that there is much of this acknowledgement, truth - facing, examination, and confession still to come among Anglicans and their brethren on the matter of women's ordination and consecration to the episcopate.

Our own present nuncio is said to be an improvement on his predecessor, and he will now, we may suppose, benefit from firm guidance from above on the criteria to be applied in recommending candidates for the episcopate.

The achievement of this Catechism thus reflects the collegial nature of the Episcopate; it testifies to the Church's catholicity.»

While, of course, the Second Vatican Council did not make formalised doctrinal definitions, the issue raised in Manning's statement, the relationship between the papacy and the episcopate (usually identified as the issue of «collegiality»), in O'Malley's viewconstitutes «the lightening - rod issue of the Council».

In The Pastoral Office, printed for the private use of his clergy after the First Vatican Council, Cardinal Manning forecast that, if the Council was to be reassembled, its first duty would be to build upon the work already achieved «and to define the Divine powers of the Episcopate and its relation to its Head».

«While I believe that these attitudes, mostly outside the Diocese, have not distracted me from my service to you, I would be less than honest if I didn't say that they have certainly added a burden and certain anxiety to my episcopate.»