Sentences with phrase «novit curia»

September 2013: The PMA submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of petitions recently filed by Amazon and Overstock with the US Supreme Court.

and some of them are in the curia and the Pope has covered for them all.

His respect for women is established in scripture as is His disrespect for the man - made rules of the Pharisees and their successors in the Roman curia.

Vatican Council II calls for the restoration of the collegiality, but the Curia has been able to block any decentralizing of authoritative power so far.

«The reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the congregations preceding the Conclave,» Francis said, referring to the meetings that led up to his election in March.

If he was disciplinarian before Pope, and there IS a disciplinarian at the Vatican, why didn't Benedict XVI get rid of some of the alleged backstabbers and / or corrupt clergy in the Curia?

Pope Benedict said in his Christmas 2006 address to the Roman Curia: «In a dialogue to be intensified with Islam, we must bear in mind the fact that the Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task.

The awareness of circumstances manifested in an institution such as the papal curia shows up in its relations with other elements in an event.

Despite profound skepticism on the part of many in the curia, John Paul pressed forward at the eve of the new millennium with plans for a series of reflections that might allow the world «to draw lessons from the past,» so as to choose life in what had become a culture of darkness.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

Where do venerable but collapsing local Churches «fit» in their relationship to the Curia, the central government of the Catholic Church?

In his Christmas talk to his curia the Pope had argued that Islam needs to respond constructively to the Enlightenment, as Catholicism did at the Second Vatican Council.

Milligan favors the continued financial corruption of the Curia, because if malfeasance and embezzlement were to cease, it would represent a victory for Pell.

The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.

In an address that is hard not to read as a rebuke of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis delivered a searching reflection on pastoral ministry to a gathering of Italian bishops at St. Peter's Basilica this evening.

Reforming the Curia has proven difficult.

Their bishops were in the «curia» of he western monarchies and they had RCC nobility (cardinals) in all of the royal courts advising the monarch and speaking for the Pope.

Cardinal Rodriguez's words nailed the coffin shut on proposals to dismantle the Roman Curia that had begun circulating immediately after Pope Francis» election.

From the perspective of the peripheries the Curia seems like a medieval relic, something unnecessary for the Church's mission that can safely be abolished.

These new cardinals will all bring their own perspectives to the consistory the Pope has convened to discuss reform of the Roman Curia.

The discussion evidences a strange convergence between the Roman Curia and some local churches, many of which, as it happens, are on the peripheries.

We are still waiting for an obvious and effective reform of the curia, and brotherly collegiality in the Church is not much more than a fine word.

He reformed the curia, internationalized its membership, and abolished the Index of Forbidden Books.

Yet we are not inclined to look for the devil in the pope or the Curia.

In his 2012 Advent address to the Roman Curia, he tells us that the truth of mankind is found within the «blueprint of human existence.»

Pope Benedict's Advent address to the Roman Curia helps clarify how Catholics understand the anthropology of man:

The Roman Curia is also suspicious of the communities because they are a popular expression of liberation theology.

Many church groups filed amicus curiae briefs urging that the court declare a constitutional requirement of property tax exemption for churches.

«In the Curia,» Francis said, referring to Catholicism's central bureaucracy, «there are holy people.

As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle between traditionalists centered in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, and a core of progressive bishops, mostly from northern Europe.

To the consternation of some bishops here, members of the Board arranged on their own to consult with leading prelates in the Roman Curia and were greatly heartened by the understanding and encouragement they received.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

Pope Francis has innumerable issues begging for his attention: the evangelization of peoples, continued ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, standing firm against relativism and unhealthy secularism, outreach to the young and the alienated, the reform of the curia, the restructuring of the Vatican bank, and on and on the list continues.

In 1986, an amicus curiae brief, signed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, asked the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogma).

The gross inadequacy of the Press Office is one example of the incompetence of the Curia as a whole (on which, again, see George Weigel's Standpoint piece at http://www.

The Pope's problems with the Roman Curia as a whole, however, take us further than we can go here.

Yet there is no governing the CatholicChurch over or around the Curia.

That's where the pope lives, along with some senior members of the Curia and the staff, mainly composed of nuns, that takes care of their domestic needs.

Contemporary popes can and do go over or around the Curia to shape the international debate, as John Paul II and Benedict XVI have shown.

In their famous final meeting, Pope Francis told Cardinal Gerhard Müller that he wanted to limit the time in office for heads of dicasteries in the Curia to five years, and that Müller was «the first to whom the rule would have applied.»

So now there are supposed to be two restrictions in place for people working in the Curia: a single five - year term, and an age - limit of seventy - five years.

Reforming the Curia is a major task: but it has to begin somewhere: why not start with the Press Office?

As Weigel, perhaps somewhat gloomily, says,»... no pope can govern successfully with an ineffectual Curia whose gaffes undercut the papal message and erode its authority.»

The fact is that the exercise of papal governance is deeply affected, for good or ill, by the competence of the Curia and its senior officials.

As African Catholicism now challenges its Euro - parent to rediscover the gift of faith that Europe once gave others, God or Nothing is also an invitation to meet a man whose service to the universal Church may not end with his current post in the Roman Curia.

The generic character of John XXIII's original intentions for the Council, of course, was essentially responsible for much of the subsequent struggle between the Council Fathers and the Roman curia, the latter being accustomed to dealing with «live issues» rather than with general goals of development.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Ratzinger's position in the Curia makes it clear that he is not simply speaking for himself, but in the name of the Vatican, which has been carrying on an undercover investigation of liberation theologians.

The Governing Board is not composed of radical activists from the church - and - society curias but of the responsible heads of the Protestant and Orthodox member churches and their official representatives.

... Pope Benedict XVI, who has indicated the hermeneutical principle of reform within continuity... «wherever this interpretation guided the implementation of the Council, new life developed and new fruit ripened» (Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, 22 December 2005).