Sentences with phrase «from other bishops»

But, she said, they are «encouraging and welcome, and we hope that they would translate into the same kind of openness from other bishops here in this country and across the world.»

Not exact matches

Look at ecclesiastical history and you will figure out that the ancient bishops or pastors of single congregations were independent from each other.

In my experience, bishops think they belong at the center of things but for reasons entirely different from why other powerful people are powerful.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

The response in his ward, and from other Mormons he has heard from, has been nothing but positive, «uniformly, no exception,» the bishop said.

But nowhere does he even mention the fact that in other important sections the book evaluates work of the American Catholic Bishops, statements from several mainline Protestant churches, and publications of M. Douglas Meeks, Max Stackhouse, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and several civil rights reformers, including Jesse Jackson.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

Fit for Missionhas undoubtedly been noticed: reactions range from extreme secularist hostility to an overwhelmingly positive response from the Catholic faithful, not only in the bishop's own diocese and throughout the English Church, but in several other countries too.

Joan Bakewell, in the February 6th edition of The Times, decided that the Pope's decision to lift decrees of excommunication from four Lefebvrist bishops, one of whom absurdly denies the historical veracity of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, should be linked to his Regensburg Address: in her view this was a sign of an increased antagonism on the part of the Vatican towards other religions.

«I think the take - away from this is, it's clear the administration is serious about its efforts to address the concerns of the Catholic bishops and others as it relates to the insurance mandate.»

At a time when the Patriarchate paid Arab priests a subsistence salary which forced them to rely on fees from baptisms, weddings and funerals to feed their families, it was charged that monies sent from Imperial Russia and other Orthodox countries for the welfare of the Arab Orthodox went directly into the pockets of the bishops and the patriarch.

Other statements, notably various declarations issued from 1969 to 1989 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. and a 1984 statement by the Chinese Catholic bishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at concBishops in the U.S. and a 1984 statement by the Chinese Catholic bishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at concbishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at conception.

I saw on the AP wire a story about a former Mormon bishop who pled guilty to multiple counts of se - xually abusing minors, specifically foster / adoptive girls from other lands.

Gogglebox's Kate Bottley joined in alongside other reverends, canons and bishops from all over the country including areas where kids had been helped by the charity.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

In that year, the bishops of East and West gathered at the Second Council of Nicaea: a meeting which, apart from its importance for other reasons, is remembered as the last occasion on which Christian faith, as a lived reality recognized throughout the then - known world, found expression in a universally representative gathering.

Huffington Post: Pope: Others should be held to same abuse «standards» Pope Benidict XVI told bishops from New York State that «all other institutions» in society should be held to the same «exacting standards» as the Roman Catholic Church in preventing and reporting sex abuse.

Most of the other charges, both from Rome and from the Peruvian bishops, are variants or amplifications of this initial one.

The Congregation for Bishops (which in Cardinal Marc Ouellet has a firmly Ratzingerian prefect, who may well with the appointment of Mgr Egan be confirming that England's problems have at last been noticed in Rome) will soon be making a good number of other episcopal appointments in England, and they will be relying on Archbishop Mennini's advice; it has been surmised (though as far as I know, unsupported speculation is all it is) that Cardinal Ouellet is waiting for the retirement of Cardinal Murphy O'Connor from his Congregation before he moves ahead with these appointments, though he wasn't deterred from appointing Mgr Egan before this event.

Huffington Post: Daniel Jenky, Illinois Catholic Bishop, Orders Anti-Obama Letter To Be Read In Diocese Earlier this year, a Roman Catholic bishop came under fire from the Anti-Defamation League and others for comparing President Barack Obama to Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler during a sermon delivered at an Illinois church.

The bishop, invested with the fullness of the sacrament of Orders, is «the steward of the grace of the supreme priesthood,» above all in the Eucharist, which he himself offers, or ensures that it is offered, from which the Church ever derives its life and on which it thrives -LSB-...] For «the sharing in the body and blood of Christ has no other effect than to accomplish our transformation into that which we receive.»

But in the dramatic opening sessions of the council in the fall of 1962, the assembled bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church, headed by those from Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, refused to follow the agenda set by the traditionalist Curia, repudiated their reactionary schemata, and unexpectedly showed themselves to be, in the majority, progressives open to John XXIII's agenda of sweeping pastoral renewal.

Some of us do that better than others, and once he was appointed bishop and archbishop, he was released from his vow of poverty, but it is an essential goal in the life of a Jesuit, and most likely deeply embedded in his spiritual life.

So long as German theological faculties are organized as they are, the Catholic bishops can keep Küng's viewpoint from spreading directly to other universities.

Part of her motivation came from the appeals of other Catholics, especially bishops, who, feeling that they could not publicly challenge the Vatican, urged her to write the book.

It is often asked why the bishops are so muted when in some other churches clergy openly endorse candidates and even invite them to campaign from their pulpits.

The fake bishop donned a purple sash (really a scarf) over his vestments and mingled with cardinals and others who'd flown in from around the globe ahead of the conclave to pick a new pope.

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

Technically, the Pope didn't directly «remove» Finn, as the media has widely reported; rather, the bishop formally offered his resignation in accordance with canon 401, paragraph 2, of the Code of Canon Law, which reads: «A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.»

if it was a bishop from some other religion taking this trip everyone would be saying where is seperation of church and goverment.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

«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.

Apparently, Ukrainian Greco - Catholics can sigh a great sigh of relief, since this Church came into being through the decision of the bishops of the Orthodox Metropolia of Kiev, and not through «the union of one community to the other, separating it from its Church.»

Soon it became customary, at least in the city of Rome, to take a fragment of bread from the celebration of Communion at the central gathering place (where the bishop presided over the service) and place it with the bread for Communion at the other worship services.

Many other factors influence the decline in religious practice among the laity, but the lack of a convincing spiritual leadership from a good number of their bishops and priests is undoubtedly exacerbating it.

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

The bishop of Pseudo-Clement's purple patch may have been content to be lookout man under Christ the pilot, but in other writings from the same period the bishop himself is already likened to a pilot.103

He despairingly lists some of the improper or fatuous reasons sometimes put forward in favor of such candidates, like their wealth, family connections, their being recently converted from the other side, their fashionable large - mindedness, their ecclesiastical pu11.32 But basically, the reluctance of the high - minded to be elected bishop was their own extremely high view of the office and the spiritual dangers it involved.

In this very early church order the bishop is chosen by the people and ordained by bishops invited from other communities.

The present tally of peers in the House of Lords is 228 Conservative peers, 212 Labour, 101 Liberal Democrat, 178 crossbenchers, 26 bishops and 38 from other parties or non-affiliated.

But with bishops in other states turning to bankruptcy to protect their dioceses from expensive awards in abuse cases, the Catholic Conference of New York became an early line of defense when the Child Victims Act was first introduced more than a decade ago.

At the grand bishop's seat of Gardar, 35 kilometers away by boat from the modest farm at Tasilikulooq, grass grows around the ruins of a cathedral, the bishop's residence, and myriad other buildings probably built by stonemasons shipped in from Norway.

If the land lay near to some other country it might be reckoned a third of a bishopric; but the Greenlanders now have their own bishop, as no other arrangement is possible on account of the great distance from other people.

They measure the distance between the place settings, tables and chairs for consistency and also fold all napkins in elaborate designs — some, like swans and bishop's mitres, from books and others of their own creation.