Sentences with phrase «local bishop»

He urged the movements to submit to the guidance of local bishops in order to ensure they are not dividing parishes or diocese.

Pius XII did welcome prophetic protest in encouraging local bishops in Germany to speak out.

Most belong to hierarchical churches with local bishops and priests or small evangelical churches that can vouch for them.

In the history of the Western Church, Anthony's elevation from the grave to the altar remains the fastest since Pope Alexander III, in 1170, removed from local bishops the power to canonize saints and invested it exclusively in the papacy.

The document notes that what seems normal for a bishop on one continent is considered «strange and almost scandalous» for another, and he wants local bishops to seek local solutions.

Local bishops rule the neighborhood and everyone reports to him.

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

This, they contend, had reduced local bishops to little more than legates of the Pope.

And his own local bishop, though forbidding publication of his long Explanations, had implied that perhaps they should be published eventually, treating with Luther through an eminent local abbot.

In his first major teaching on family issues, Pope Francis advances the power of local bishops to include divorced and remarried Catholics in church life, perhaps even letting them celebrate the Eucharist, while largely sidestepping hot - button social issues like gay marriage and married clergy.

In that light, Sen. Joseph Biden and like - minded Catholic politicians have nobody to blame but themselves for any problem they face during this campaign with local bishops.

However deeply the local bishop is integrated into the power structures of his country and culture, as a member of the priestly caste he's seen as, and sees himself as, a special case.

Vatican II described the local bishop as a true teacher, governor, and sanctifier in his local Church, and not simply a branch manager of the Catholic Church, Inc..

He extended his «heartfelt condolences» to the local bishop and to «all the faithful of the diocese of Nnewi, in particular the families of the deceased and all those affected by this tragedy».

Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

It does this by defining the mandate as a relationship between the local bishop and the individual Catholic theologian; it addresses the Catholic theology at the heart of the Catholic university without setting up a formal relationship with the university itself.

For most of this essay, however, I will assume that the local bishop is indeed the competent ecclesiastical authority.

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

He overruled the local bishops» objections and in January 2015 appointed Bishop Barros to head the diocese of Osorno.

Local bishops, barely able to stand what they consider to be interference in the form of appointments and decisions made by Rome, also view the Roman Curia in a negative light.

In response, his local bishop felt compelled to give the following clarification.

If at times the descriptions of Foyer communities conjured up images of kaftan communes of the 1960s, these were held at bay by repeated assertions of Marthe's adherence at all times to the Church's Magisterium, of each Foyer opening only at the invitation of the local bishop and of snippets of Marthe's such as «Mass is not an obligation... it is a necessity!»

There are certain functions in the Church, for example the primatial powers of a local bishop, which must be per - formed by the individual and can not be delegated to a group, so that the individual minister would only execute the latter's decision.

«Born in Uganda in 1949, John Sentamu was the sixth of 13 children and was so small, the local bishop was called to baptise him immediately.

By relying too much on the ad hoc determinations of local bishops, the Church may be thrown into doctrinal confusion.

Local Bishops are supposed to follow those rules.

Away from the states, Zimbabwe finally got rid of Robert Mugabe - with a local bishop telling Premier that «God has given us a chance».

By the time Michel turned 20, her life had become a nightmare — she was eating spiders and spending days in a dog - like state — and a priest named Ernst Alt was finally convinced to implore the local bishop to agree to an exorcism.

It would be up to the local bishop to make the decision.

Unfortunately, there has been little progress on the question of copyright to the text, which belongs to the local Bishops» Conferences.

A spokesman for Dolan said convention protocol calls for the local bishop to deliver such a prayer, meaning the slot would have normally gone to a Florida bishop, but that the Republican convention's organizers insisted on Dolan's participation.

And this time, unlike in the past, some local bishops, including representatives of the national bishops» conference, had had enough.

The manifesto is an «appeal to the institutional Church... to open the priesthood to women and married men... to allow laity, religious, and clergy to participate in the selection of local bishops,» etc. etc..

There is a reason that the local bishop is more central to the life of the local church than any remote pope or denominational head quarters.

«Local bishops, the Patriarchs, Orthodox and Catholics of various rites — the Syriac, Chaldean, Melkite — met a few days ago and clearly formulated important plans of action.

The local bishop told Revd Pemberton that his actions had gone against the teachings of the church.

[7] Newman would like the local bishops to act in the same way, but he was not holding his breath.

In this narrative the full implementation of the principle of collegiality would radically assert the autonomy of the local bishop and would be no more than the logical conclusion of the process set in motion by the Second Vatican Council.

But the primacy of the Pope should not be conceived of as in competition with the authority of the local bishop.

The local bishop, who is directly acquainted with the exigencies of his local situation, should be able to establish for himself and for his own diocese local norms concerning ethical issues, ecumenical practices and questions such as who may be admitted to the sacraments and under what circumstances.

These interpretations become unhelpful when they locate a conflict of interests between the autonomy of the local bishop and the norms of the universal Church.