Sentences with phrase «new episcopate»

This could be an early and, for many, decisive test of his new episcopate.

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John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

All the same, there seems to be a reasonable hope that Cardinal Ouellet will now, having noticed (probably with the Holy Father's direct involvement) this country's needs, set himself to showing «how an episcopate can be reconfigured for the challenges of the new evangelisation» here, too; so it could be that in 10 years» time our Bishops» Conference will have a very different look about it.

For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.

Great episcopal figures of the antebellum period — for example, the Irish liberal John England of Charleston, and the pugnacious John Hughes of New York — were «fitted» into the Carrollingian story line (if I may be pardoned the neologism) even as their distinctive styles and the accomplishments of their episcopates stretched the boundaries of the «Carroll Church.»

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.