Sentences with phrase «into full communion»

Obviously the [existence] of church - dividing and irreconcilable differences would preclude the possibility of entering into full communion.

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in....

He saw off once and for all the so - called «alternative magisterium» of Kung, Schillebeeckx and their ilk: and as a result he made it possible for hundreds of thousands of non-Catholics like myself, tired of the uncertaintiesof secularised versions of Christianity, to come into full communion with the Holy See.

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.

In August 1990, just before he entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Richard preached for two Sundays in a row from his father's old pulpit at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pembroke, Ontario.

Each of the uniting bodies would have to change profoundly in order to enter into full communion, but they could do this, it was believed, without rejecting what is essential to their own identities.

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered 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 live.

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

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

they could, as countless converts to Roman Catholicism have done before them including many former Anglo - Catholics, apply to enter into full communion through the normal processes.

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

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

The number of adults moving into full communion with the Catholic Church is one of the important untold stories in contemporary America.

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.»

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.»

Each year the number of adults entering into full communion with the Church through this program has grown, and will, please God, continue to grow in the future.

I hope it's clear, though, that if a gay person is in a gay relationship, that person ought not to be received into full communion.

In the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

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.

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.

Some years ago, when William F. Buckley heard that a prominent Protestant had entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, he exclaimed: «This is great news.

These rites bring the whole liturgical enterprise for English sacral language into full communion with the Catholic Church.

The small oratory at Littlemore» dark but warm, dominated by red damask hangings that exude Victorian piety» is the room in which John Henry Newman was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.

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.

It is thus ordered to the profession of faith, to the full integration into the economy of salvation, and to Eucharistic communion.

He already has the sacred character of a Bishop but until he comes into hierarchical communion with the Pope the full possibility of this is not brought to fulfilment: he can not share in the definitely guaranteed ability to teach granted by Christ to the College of Bishops.

We know ourselves to be part of «a great company which no man can number,» for in such worship we enter with full awareness into «the communion of saints» and know ourselves to be «members of the blessed company of all faithful people.»

Mediation aims to restore communion, to bring humanity into a full and personal relationship with God.