Sentences with phrase «full communion»

Or I'll share the latest vote on full communion.

The whole issue of contraception was one that we had to struggle to understand as we came into full communion.

I am a Catholic that is from one of the NINE Byzantine Rite Churches in full communion with Rome.

Eastern rite churches in FULL communion with Rome are married.

They prepare us for full communion with God.

The goal is no longer an institutional merger but a committed relationship of full communion among the participating churches in 2002, with the name Churches Uniting in Christ.

They might further recognize that the presence of the Catholic Church in their ecclesial communities gravitates toward full communion with the Catholic Church.

We have a pastoral responsibility to those outside the Catholic Church who long for the conditions which will allow them into full communion without failing in their own pastoralresponsibilities.

As a formal matter, the Armenian Church and the Roman Catholic Church have been out of full communion since the fifth century.

Last year I received two adults into full communion who had been baptised as infants but never brought up in the faith.

The theological disputes that raged in northern Europe in the sixteenth century, and still rage in some Protestant circles, are largely irrelevant to, and would be a distraction from, the goal of reestablishing full communion between East and West.

In those bodies, once describing themselves as the ecumenical churches, it seems that nobody of influence is pressing for or is even seriously thinking about the visible unity in full communion under discussion here.

The Catholic commitment to the quest for full visible unity as full communion is, as has been reaffirmed again and again in the years since the Second Vatican Council, «irrevocable.»

When full communion among all Christians is realized, nobody will feel a need to speak of the Roman Catholic Church, and there will certainly be no talk of «returning» to Rome, for then there will be, quite simply and comprehensively, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

«Serious dissentions appeared,» the Catholic catechism tells us, «and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church — for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame.»

We may be called on to catechise others in the Church, such as children and young people or adults seeking full communion with Christ.

It said: «We are aware that our other ecumenical partners may find this a further difficulty on the journey towards full communion.

Here we can offer our lives, our intentions, our whole humanity so that the work of reconstructing full communion with God can begin and can move forward — always aware that this is a work that will only be fully accomplished when God is all in all at the end.

There is no point in full communion in anything less than communio in the fullness of the truth that the Church has been given to teach and guard.

In such a situation, the ecumenical task» the quest for full communion among all Christians» is not optional for those who would be faithful to the church's Lord.

In season and out of season, whether the interest of others waxes or wanes, the Catholic Church will persist in theological dialogue with everyone, and in exploring every possible opening toward the uncompromisable goal of full communion among all Christians.

Some Anglo - Catholics have left the Anglican communion to join new groups professing to be orthodox Anglicanism, many others are entering into full communion with Rome, and Rome has declared that disappointments and setbacks require a redoubling of ecumenical effort.

On this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Dei.

The creation of the Moscow Metropolitanate was a direct reaction to the fact that the Church of Kyiv (Kiev) had re-established full communion with Rome at the Council of Florence through Metropolitan Isidore.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

She must ever live in full communion with Christ because she is the spouse of God, for her separation is unthinkable, let alone the divorce of apostasy; she is the body of which the Messiah is the head, and a living body may not be truncated and yet live.

We signal our gratitude by developing our own talents to the fullness, by becoming free, responsible, initiative - showing, creative agents of a better world, and by aspiring to that full communion of all human beings whose vocation is written into the structure of human history.

That, evangelical Catholics believe, is why the Lord empowered the apostles and gave them the Holy Spirit, who in turn creates throughout history a succession of teachers who teach authoritatively: the college of bishops who are in full communion with the bishop of Rome.

The evangelical Catholic will, by necessity, «believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God» (as those entering the full communion of the Church confess).

Exactly one year previous, on September 8, 1990, Cardinal O'Connor had received Richard into full communion with the Catholic Church, in a ceremony held in the private chapel of the cardinal's residence....

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

Feeling replaces the possibility of a full communion in being itself with that which is not the self.

If we want to be in full communion with Jesus Christ we need to be in full communion with Peter's successor in Rome.

The Presbyterians could not understand why the American Puritans would not admit good Presbyterians to full communion and to the privilege of voting.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

Christ was always going to enter the world to bring us to full communion with the Father.

The invitation of the Holy Father to full communion came in response to many discussions over many years.