Sentences with phrase «for prelates»

No one is clamoring for prelates to praise divorce.

Guo had been earlier asked by the Vatican to step aside for a prelate approved by China's Communist government.

Because I was wearing a doctoral gown and a hood, I knew people might mistake me for a prelate as they searched to he consoled.

[85] Conservative MP Margot James, who was considered one of the most influential gay women in 2009, [86] called these comments «scaremongering» and said: «I think it is a completely unacceptable way for a prelate to talk.

Not exact matches

The straight - talking American prelate lamented the fact that while the Second Vatican Council had «called for a renewal of the sacrament of penance», what emerged «sadly, in many places, was the disappearance of the sacrament».

And the Greek Orthodox archbishop in North and South America, however influential, is only one prelate in a Byzantine world church known for its pluralism (some would say chaos) and resistance to change.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

At a time when Church of England prelates were berating the French Revolution for its subversive teaching, the spirit of democracy and its blasphemous character, Carey welcomed the new spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity.

She describes the time, early in her life in the convent, when a prelate ordered her to stop studying, since it seemed «something for the Inquisition.»

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of...

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

But the idea that Francis is looking for ways to rationalize and effectively permit sin, either by deferring his authority to controversial prelates or under the guise of avoiding rigorism in favor of mercy, runs counter to his larger witness.

Nevertheless, at this moment in the life of the Church — indeed, at the instigation of the Supreme Pontiff, who has called for parrhesia on numerous occasions — there is much to say, and many prelates are speaking out.

Meanwhile, another committee will work on the reform of the Vatican pension fund under the coordination of Monsignor Brian Ferme, the Prelate Secretary of the Council for Economy.

In the absence of adequate answers to such questions, it is difficult to accept the statement of A.M. Mundadan that» tradition is unanimous in asserting that the prelates of St. Thomas Christians came from Babylon (Persia) for many centuries before the arrival of the Portuguese in India.»

«So, for instance, when Cornwell sets out in Hitler's Pope to prove Pius an anti-Semite (an accusation even the pontiff's bitterest opponents have rarely levelled), he makes much of Pacelli's reference in a 1917 letter to the «Jewish cult» — as though for an Italian Catholic prelate born in 1876 the word «cult» had the same resonances it has in English today, and as though Cornwell himself does not casually refer to the Catholic cult of the Assumption and the cult of the Virgin Mary.»

One Roman Catholic prelate, for instance, recently found himself on a platform with several Episcopal bishops, including a woman bishop.

Pope and prelates were arraigned for enriching themselves on the income from Indulgences, and seducing Christians from the true worship of God; they branded people as heretics merely for opposing the purely temporal rights of the Church.

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

Throughout Europe the cathedrals offered opportunity for sculptors to provoke somewhat hollow laughter with their skin and bone effigies of «death», set beside or over the memorial of a deceased prelate represented in all his earthly glory.

We have, all, that is the ecclesiastical prelates, failed, every one of us, and there was not one who did anything good for long.»

He hated monarchs in the state and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey.

The typical Hanoverian prelate may have basked on the summit, except when he descended for an occasional charity sermon, but many quiet pastors like Bishop Wilson were well aware of the practical needs of their people.

Well, if Mannix set the twentieth - century pattern for Catholic prelates Down Under, George Pell will be regarded by historians as the man who set the pattern for the twenty - first century.

He traveled to Rome for the consistory creating Archbishop John J. O'Connor a Cardinal, and covered the prelate's dramatic missions to Central America and Northern Ireland.

The recent endorsement of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for a second term in office by the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, His...

In his own remark, the Benue State deputy governor, who is a member of the church, eulogised the incumbent Prelate for his commitment to his pastoral job.

For the past five years the Pope of «the peripheries» has ignored the peripheries (especially the prelates of Africa) while allying himself with the government - subsidized corrupt German hierarchy in...