Sentences with phrase «full communion who»

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

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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.

Lutherans who have in recent years entered into full communion with the Catholic Church tell their stories and reasons why.

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O'Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called «my dear friend» and who received him into full communion with the Catholic Church in September 1990 at the chapel in his residence.

After all, the great Eastern Fathers of the Church (for instance, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, and Maximos the Confessor) are Catholic saints who were in full communion with the successor of Peter and the Catholic Church.

The committee quotes the official ecumenical directory which says, «The work of preparing the reception of an individual who wishes to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church is of its nature distinct from ecumenical activity.»

That is the Catholic proposal, and those who come to believe that it is true are, says the Council, conscience bound to enter into and remain in full communion with the Catholic Church.

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor.

I have mentioned Anglicans and Lutherans, but that of course does not address the great majority of Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.

St Barnabas Society (offers pastoral and financial assistance to clergy of other denominations who come into full communion with the Catholic Church.)

In fact, it's almost certainly the case that, for many of those who came into full communion with the Catholic Church from other Christian communities, it was the doctrinal and moral confusions in the community of their baptism that led them to seek a Church that knew what it believed, why (and Who) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should liwho came into full communion with the Catholic Church from other Christian communities, it was the doctrinal and moral confusions in the community of their baptism that led them to seek a Church that knew what it believed, why (and Who) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should liWho) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should live.

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.

Furthermore, the Kyivan Church re-established full communion with Rome in 1596 through the Union of Brest, an explicit revival of Florentine models of unity, only to be beaten back by rivals who did not accept this Union.