Sentences with phrase «in 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.

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.

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.

There are many reasons to convert: but once in full communion with the Catholic Church all that is in the past.

Just for your information, the Episcopal Church is a member in full communion with the 80 million member Anglican Communion, which regardless of differences over social issues among its churches is still the THIRD largest body of Christians in the WORLD after Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What the Catholic Church calls our «certain but imperfect» communion with evangelicals and with all Christians will, please God, one day be perfected in full communion.

In Eastern rite Catholic Churches in full communion with Rome, married men are allowed to be priests, though they can not get married after ordination.

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 forty - first 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.

It would be tremendous if they would be faithful to the Gospel, live in full communion with the Church, and fully commit themselves to teaching and sharing ALL of the teaching of Christ instead of using a portion of His teaching to justify other activities.

I am an Eastern Catholic (one of the 21 independent Churches in full communion with the Roman Church).

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.

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.

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 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.

Had it not been for the unpleasantness of the sixteenth century, Lutheranism might have become a distinct tradition of spirituality — somewhat like the Franciscans or Dominicans — in full communion with the one Church that Luther wanted to reform.

The answer would seem to be that the Church that exists elsewhere than in full communion with the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church.

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.

Over the last twenty - five years, the Russian Orthodox leadership persistently rejected Rome's proposals for a meeting of pope and patriarch, and based those rejections on its distress at the revival and vitality of the Eastern Catholic Churches (and especially the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), which are Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

The Diocese of Westminster, which is responsible for the church Mr Corbyn was attending, in response said it expected celebrants to be «in full communion with the Catholic Church» in order to receive Communion.

Catholics must want all people to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, since we believe it is the Church of Jesus Christ most fully and rightly ordered through time.

We are in full communion with the Church, we were approved by the Bishops Conference of England and Wales in 2004, and we affirm with the Holy See, the Bishop of Fatima and Sr Lucia that Russia was indeed consecrated by Bl John Paul II on 25 March 1984.

In his paper on «God in Nature and History», Berkhof says that the dynamic of the gospel is «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a glorified humanity, in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits»

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., on Pope Francis and Christians in the Middle East: The Chaldean and Syriac Catholic Churches of Iraq and Syria, while differing in rite and tradition from the Latin West, are integral members of the universal Catholic Church, in full communion with the....

The Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, and so we can only come together and receive Communion if we truly are in communion with one another, and that means being in full communion with the Catholic Church, led by the bishop of Rome.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches (Byzantine in liturgy and Church organization, but in full communion with the Bishop of Rome), did not face this dilemma; the UGCC was long the safe - deposit box of Ukrainian national consciousness, and in the post-Soviet period it has devoted its public life to building Ukrainian civil society.