Sentences with phrase «man as the bishop»

Not exact matches

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said: «The unique meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman is inscribed in our bodies as male and female.

Gregory of Nyssa, (c.330 - c395), who was bishop of Nyssa, but exiled for a time by the Arian party» used this analogy: «We may be confronted by many who individually share in human nature, such as Peter, James and John, yet the «man» in them is one.»

Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and «fools for Christ,» its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions» even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world.

That a man - made organization with (presumably) good - intentions has had women bishops ordained ought not be mistaken as bearing the authority of scripture.

The Palm Beach bishop who was forced to resign used the claim that he was practicing therapy as an excuse for sex with young men.

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

But when his son, Charles I, became king, 1625, he selected as his right - hand man William Laud, bishop of London.

Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.

When the doors to the Sistine Chapel are closed and the secret deliberations begin, the 117 men in the 2013 papal conclave will not only be selecting a pope as the new bishop of Rome, but also as the pastor of the 1,195,671,000 - member global communion.

He has disliked the Curia because, before he became pope, Rome often refused to appoint the men he designated as possible bishops.

[52] He also wrote as bishop of Lyons, where in 177, a violent uprising had taken place against the Christians, resulted in the martyrdom of almost fifty Christian men and women.

Research commissioned by the bishops themselves shows, as the whole world now knows, that more than 80 percent of the instances of abuse were with teenage boys and young men.

How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?

That's rather like asking a bishop, at the height of the Clinton scandal, how he thinks employers should treat young women - knowing that whatever he says will be taken as comment on the big man.»

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Luther was becoming a substitute guardian and bishop: «If that man's case is as he described it, my Nicholas, then I think he may lawfully keep his wife, since the former husband deserted her such a long time ago... The visitation has begun.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

John Wesley had asserted his rights as a presbyter to ordain men for a, ministry in America, thereby denying the necessity of ordination by bishops alone.

In addition to assuming the full Petrine prerogative as bishop, Callistus also suggested that by a process of monopolization, the spiritual man of Paul (I Cor.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

Ambrose states his conviction as to the prophetic function of the bishop very well in a letter to Theodosius: «There is nothing in a priest so full of peril as regards God, or so base in the opinion of men, as not freely to declare what he thinks.»

I was caught in similar situations seeking marriage counseling from well meaning men appointed as my Bishops while I was being physically and emotionallly abused by my LDS wife.