Sentences with phrase «of ecclesiastical»

Victorian brass standard oil lamp (converted to electric) of ecclesiastical form with bulbous column with Acantus leaves, Pyramid base, scroll legs and lion paw feet - The lampshade -LRB-...

Pastoral Counselors may have equal or distinctly different educational and training backgrounds, depending on the requirements of the ecclesiastical authority that they are under.

Marriage Encounter refers to a retreat opportunity offered by a number of ecclesiastical traditions.

Owned and operated by Catholic laymen, The Wanderer is independent of ecclesiastical oversight but maintains a fiercely loyal adherence to Catholic doctrine and discipline, catholic news, pro life, orthodox, traditional, conservative, Catechesis and Apologetics.

courts, and until the time of James I, it was punished through the instrumentality of those tribunals not merely because ecclesiastical rights had been violated, but because upon the separation of the ecclesiastical courts from the civil the ecclesiastical were supposed to be the most appropriate for the trial of matrimonial causes and offences against the rights of marriage, just as they were for testamentary causes and the settlement of the estates of deceased persons.

In previous posts regarding a similar dispute elsewhere, I predicted this outcome (and think that, as a matter of ecclesiastical structure and organization within that religious community, it is rightly decided).

He is on the editorial advisory committee of the Ecclesiastical Law Society's journal.

(c) Agreement between the Holy See and Malta on the recognition of civil effects to canonical marriages and to decisions of ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals on those marriages of 3 February 1993, including the Protocol of application of the same date, with the second Additional Protocol of 6 January 1995.

Recognition of the decisions provided for in paragraph 2 may, in Spain, Italy or Malta, be subject to the same procedures and the same checks as are applicable to decisions of the ecclesiastical courts handed down in accordance with the international treaties concluded with the Holy See referred to in paragraph 3.

have depicted as attendant upon the doctrine of Lord Eldon, and would, in effect, transfer to the civil courts where property rights were concerned the decision of all ecclesiastical questions.

This regulation, while prescribing civil penalties, preserved the concurrent jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to punish Sabbath breaking.

Redress must be sought through the internal review process established by canon law for disputes of an ecclesiastical nature.

Author: Frank Cranmer is Secretary of the Churches» Legislation Advisory Service, an honorary research fellow at Cardiff Law School, parliamentary and synod editor of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal and joint casenotes editor of Law & Justice.

We hold that the inquiries made by the Illinois Supreme Court into matters of ecclesiastical cognizance and polity and the court's actions pursuant thereto contravened the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

And although the Diocesan Bishop controls respondent Monastery of St. Sava and is the principal officer of respondent property - holding corporations, the civil courts must accept that consequence as the incidental effect of an ecclesiastical determination that is not subject to judicial abrogation, having been reached by the final church judicatory in which authority to make the decision resides.

It suffices to note that the reorganization of the Diocese involves a matter of internal church government, an issue at the core of ecclesiastical affairs; Arts. 57 and 64 of the Mother Church constitution commit such questions of church polity to the final province of the Holy Assembly.

Thus, although Watson had left civil courts no role to play in reviewing ecclesiastical decisions during the course of resolving church property disputes, Gonzalez first adverted to the possibility of «marginal civil court review,» Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, supra at 393 U. S. 447, in cases challenging decisions of ecclesiastical tribunals as products of «fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness.»

In addition, Co Sligo was the site of the discovery of the Moylough Belt Shrine, one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical metalwork in the history of Irish art.

Farshid Moussavi's VR experience transports visitors into masterpieces of ecclesiastical architecture, which they can adapt and transform themselves, while creative technology and content studio Happy Finish have worked with Yinka Shonibare to develop a three - dimensional rendering of a neo-classical painting, featuring a cast of Venus dressed in Shonibare's trademark batik fabric.

VMFA African Art Curator Richard Woodward examines the distinctive types and styles of ecclesiastical artworks in VMFA's new Ethiopian collection, with further illumination provided by a short film by filmmaker Tim Reid.

In general, the extant legends (the word is used in its primary sense, «matter to be read aloud» on commemorations of the saint) are charter myths, explaining and validating in pre-scientific terms the institutions, customs and beliefs prevailing at a particular time in a particular area of ecclesiastical influence.

After holding ministerial office, he became a member of the ecclesiastical and the public accounts parliamentary select committees.

The Elizabethan legislation which provided for uniformity of ecclesiastical practice by prescribing the use of the Prayer Book gives no hint of the extraordinary confusion which was to continue to prevail in the actual services of the church.

[Roland H. Bainton joined the faculty of the Yale Divinity School in 1920 and remained there until his retirement as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1962.

They use their ritual and institutional power to manipulate people in order to perpetuate vested interests and to maintain the dominance of ecclesiastical functionaries.

When Archbishop Athenagoras Kokkinakis of Thyateira and Great Britain asked Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios of Constantinople whether the Patriarch of Alexandria's bestowal of the honor upon a non-Orthodox churchman was proper, the Ecumenical Patriarch supported this act of ecclesiastical economy as a sign of things to come.

The Tridentine seminary did not aim at advanced theological studies, for which there were (and in some parts of Europe still are) Catholic university faculties; it was to concentrate on the practical side of ecclesiastical knowledge and on training in piety.

I rejoice that the church continues to raise up its sons and daughters to seek priestly vocations in our cities, and I am dedicated to maintaining the presence of our ecclesiastical structures and our worshiping communities in the depressed areas of urban America, no matter what the cost.

The Nicene Council delineated an understanding concerning some of the ecclesiastical positions.

In this situation the laity, in the absence of any visible and present reminders of ecclesiastical ubiquity and power to awe or influence them, tasted and relished the possibilities of control to such an extent that later they only grudgingly could be induced to surrender a part — and among Protestants they never surrendered all of it.

I promised to say nothing of ecclesiastical systems in these lectures.

The story of Patriarch Roncalli's journey to Rome in 1958 is now a legend of ecclesiastical folklore.

As anyone with the most rudimentary grasp of ecclesiastical history knows the Church often takes time to stabilise after a major Ecumenical...

As anyone with the most rudimentary grasp of ecclesiastical history knows the Church often takes time to stabilise after a major Ecumenical Council.

The real requirement was acceptance of ecclesiastical authority and obedience.

Organized Christianity in the form of an ecclesiastical institution has already been greatly fragmented.

Only when the great minds were liberated from the biblical accounts of creation and the controls and censures of ecclesiastical authorities were they able to make a qualitative leap in scientific progress, bringing about the un-fettered birth of modern science.

The Word of God in the Bible, the voice of the Pope or the decisions of ecclesiastical assemblies — all will fall more and more on deaf ears.

Despite the sophistication of their theology and the hoary prestige of their ecclesiastical orders, the European churches have failed to market their «product.»

Zealous Victorian historians did find occasional examples of ecclesiastical stupidity, such as the Boston pastor who warned that lightning caused earthquakes.

But Luther soon got on to what so affronted him, and what had been an annoyance in the Church for centuries: misuse of ecclesiastical disciplines.

But when it came to demands on them from Rome, national feeling and resentment of ecclesiastical privilege, and of Rome, was the overriding sentiment.

In the past fifty years as many as eighteen separate editions of German translations of the complete Bible had been circulating, neither forbidden nor approved by Church authority, in some cases printed without a printer's name for fear of ecclesiastical reprisals.

But it had an air of ecclesiastical authority and of learning which impressed Luther.

The Reformation was the first sign that this form of ecclesiastical bondage was destined to crack and give way to the emergence of a new world with a whole new concern for freedom.

Whether called Protestant, middle class, or bourgeois, therefore, the civility that becomes the civil religion is a set of ground rules permitting civil harmony in the midst of political diversity, religious peace in the midst of ecclesiastical pluralism.

That was ten years ahead; but this was the normal atmosphere of ecclesiastical affairs which had aroused intense criticism and resentment for many years.

Here (they will think) was a people who behaved as though the interesting and important thing about the Mass was the prospect of restyling the package; as though sin and folly resulted from a bad condition of the ecclesiastical machine; as though, given only a rending of garments according to current fashion and theory, our cold hearts would warm up naturally and painlessly.

Several of them attempted to solve the finances of themselves and the Papal curia by the sale of ecclesiastical offices.

In general terms... the rationality of ecclesiastical hierarchies as well as of patrimonial sovereigns is substantive in character, so that their aim is not that of achieving the highest degree of formal juridical precision which would maximize the chances for the correct prediction of legal consequences....