Sentences with phrase «of vatican»

They have nothing to do with the behaviour of the Vatican, they are MUCH more fundamental than that

Ever since the motu proprio was published -(interesting, incidentally, how everyone now speaks of THE motu proprio, as if there had only ever been one of them)- and it was clear that the bishops hostile to it were not going to be allowed to get in its way, the battle moved to the next set of trenches: those dug by the increasingly desperate proponents of «the spirit of Vatican II», who had so far seemed generally quiescent in defeat, but who had in fact been looking for a casus belli all along.

Since the 1930s, the astronomers of the Vatican Observatory have been drawn principally from the Society of Jesus, and indeed the new director is a 43 - year - old Argentinian Jesuit, Fr José Funes, who replaces the director of 28 years» standing, Fr George Coyne.

The Model United Nations movement, for example, has become something of an international phenomenon and yet, despite the Vatican's presence with permanent observer status at the UN, it is virtually unheard of for students to assume the role of the Vatican at such conferences.

Church experts said that the nuns could accept the assessment, negotiate or resign en masse and form a new group outside the watchful eye of the Vatican.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

THE FUTURE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS Two views of the Vatican's correction of the Leadership Council for Women Religious, rather different.

When are you going to go all crazy about the fact that most of Europe, INCLUDING ITALY — home of the Vatican — has the SAME rules about providing contraception?

Vatican II by no means rejected the image of Body of Christ, or Mystical Body, but it subordinated all the images, including «People of God,» to the theological concept of the Church as sacrament, which Karl Rahner called the Grundidee of Vatican II's ecclesiology.

The instruction of the Vatican says that theologians using Marxist analyses become ipso facto Marxist atheists.

You DO know that Italy, the home of the Vatican, is not getting hit by the hypocrite catholic church over the SAME rule there do» t you?

It was a real metaphysical alternative in the age of Vatican II.

Pius also brought a pragmatic desire to realize in this small town what his papal predecessor Nicholas V desired but could not realize for Rome: the «most perfect paradise» of the Vatican district, a City of God on the Tuscan side of the Tiber.

Granted the need to recognise legitimate doctrinal development in the Church, along with the important contributions of Vatican II, the Church does provide the security of a tradition that rests upon unchanging, divinely revealed truths.

In remarks to Agenzia Fides, the news agency of the Vatican, he criticized Trump's orders harshly.

But the film stoops to its lowest level by ending with a disingenuous attack on Benedict XVI: «Months after associating Islam with «things only evil and inhuman,» Benedict XVI reversed reforms of Vatican II to authorize a Good Friday Mass that includes a previous disavowed prayer ¯ for the conversion of Jews.»

Scotland, England, Switzerland, Norway, Danemark, Holland, and Sweeden are largely non-Roman Catholic and have done quite well in many areas of mans developement because they were free of the vatican traditions, clerical heirachy, and ecclesiatical beurocracy.

The theologians behind this «nouvelle théologie» greatly enriched Catholic thought, not least through the role they played in shaping the documents of Vatican II, but their lack of philosophical rigor contributed to an «anti-propositional turn» in Catholic theology after the council.

Questions like these raised by constitutions and decrees of Vatican II are of particular interest to me; I was for 25 years a member of a Hindu monastic order before returning to Christianity and thus feel a deep concern for interreligious encounter.

The chief representative of the Vatican at the UN headquarters has again urged international leaders to do more to stop the persecution of Christians in Iraq.

The approach of Vatican II to the question of salvation for non-Christians, as clarified and amplified by Father Vagaggini, represents one side of the dialogue.

He wanted the Church's bishops to follow the lead of Vatican II and see themselves first and foremost as teachers and sanctifiers; but he not infrequently appointed bishops with a tendency to liberal authoritarianism to key positions in their respective countries, with grave effects on episcopal leadership throughout the world.

The Vatican and English Catholic bishops distanced themselves Wednesday from the comments, saying they do not represent the views of the Vatican.

Noll and Nystrom next survey the international bilateral dialogues on matters of doctrine that followed in the wake of Vatican II between the Roman Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the various «world confessional families» or «Christian world communions,» on the other.

Home of the Vatican?

If I were addressing a Catholic audience, near the top of my list would be the wish that Catholics would abandon — repent of — even the moderated exclusivism of Vatican II.

Controversy about the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has intensified in recent years.

That semester, we read a wide but beautiful array of writings all the way from Scripture, the early Church Fathers, Bernard of Clairvaux, Therese of Lisieux, and ending with the Documents of Vatican II and Christi fideles Laici.

His fellow Jesuits were rankled by a 1972 interview he gave to Vatican Radio that said religious orders had succumbed to «decadence» stemming from «a false interpretation of Vatican II.»

@Catholic Engineer... If you look farther afield, you may also notice that Ratzinger and the council of cardinals wear prada, and the oppulence of Vatican City is a vision that your christ may think obscene; and OH!

Pope Francis has stuck a large sign on the front door of his Vatican apartment that reads: «No complaining»... More

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

Having fear of the Vatican run the Presidency in 1960 is a lot less than having Jeffries run the Presidency in 2012!

While activities such as Grace's are relatively independent of Vatican policies — and hence this section could be seen as a digression from the author's theme — the Knights are headquartered in the Vatican and have connections with powerful members of the hierarchy like O'Connor and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.

Thomas Albert Howard, a Gordon College history professor and Protestant, observes on The Anxious Bench blog that this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II and the four - hundred ninety - fifth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

At diocesan urging, a Roman Catholic congregation sought to start a parish council that would institute the principles of local lay leadership advocated in the documents of Vatican II.

Thus the importance of the Vatican Council for Protestantism in America was incalculable.

Cor Unum (the charitable organisation of the Vatican) and Aid to the Church in Need are major examples of this type of charity.

One of those Vatican - ordered investigations, which are now nearing completion, involves a two - part questionnaire consisting of 120 detailed questions like: What is the process for responding to sisters who dissent publicly from Church teaching...?

She was called «La Popessa,» depicted as the iron lady of the Vatican, and said to have wielded more power in Rome than any woman in centuries.

Meanwhile, another committee will work on the reform of the Vatican pension fund under the coordination of Monsignor Brian Ferme, the Prelate Secretary of the Council for Economy.

Working together, «each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish» (Letterio Reverend George Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory, 1987).

The myth that the Pope was determined to undo the brave new world of Vatican II (which, having been trapped behind the iron curtain he could not possibly have understood) was sedulously spread abroad.

On the 16th September His Holiness Pope Benedict visited the new location of the Vatican Observatory headquarters.

This will probably lead to the establishment of a new umbrella body which will, for the first time, gather together all the branches of Vatican communication and, finally, push the Holy See into the digital age.

The dissenters took control of the Catholic «world» and invocated the «spirit» of Vatican II and the primacy of conscience over objective norms.

This, and not the much ballyhooed triumph of «progress» over «tradition,» was the real «spirit of Vatican II.»

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

Among the signatories are Dr Joseph Shaw, a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Oxford, and former president of the Vatican bank, Monsignor Antonio Livi.

No division, then, is deep or wide enough to prevent a sincere expression of our concern for those who have dedicated their lives to the mission of the church and who nowhave to deal with the news of the Vatican finding.»