Sentences with phrase «immutable right the church»

By divine and therefore immutable right the Church has a ministry that is represented by individual persons.

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We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

For according to Catholic ecclesiology the fundamental constitution of the Church is of divine right and hence immutable.