Sentences with phrase «of local bishops»

Those who conceive of the principle of collegiality as a strengthening of the local bishops over and against the interventions of the successor of St Peter should think again.

The manifesto is an «appeal to the institutional Church... to open the priesthood to women and married men... to allow laity, religious, and clergy to participate in the selection of local bishops,» etc. etc..

He urged the movements to submit to the guidance of local bishops in order to ensure they are not dividing parishes or diocese.

In the past, conservatives have complained that the NCCB has claimed an authority that it does not rightly possess, that it has spoken and acted in ways that weaken the effectiveness of both local bishops and Rome.

Perhaps this gradually took force, especially in circumstances of persecution, and it would no doubt have had to have had the approval of the local bishop.

If at times the descriptions of Foyer communities conjured up images of kaftan communes of the 1960s, these were held at bay by repeated assertions of Marthe's adherence at all times to the Church's Magisterium, of each Foyer opening only at the invitation of the local bishop and of snippets of Marthe's such as «Mass is not an obligation... it is a necessity!»

But the primacy of the Pope should not be conceived of as in competition with the authority of the local bishop.

Though the network must receive the approval of the local bishop, each Cristo Rey school operates almost entirely outside of the traditional diocesan and parish system.

Not exact matches

However deeply the local bishop is integrated into the power structures of his country and culture, as a member of the priestly caste he's seen as, and sees himself as, a special case.

The divine head of the Christian Church is the invisible Jesus Christ and every local bishop or pastor should be directly responsible to Him (in the true Church even every ordinary member of the Church or Christian has a high responsibility, not only the pastor).

Vatican II described the local bishop as a true teacher, governor, and sanctifier in his local Church, and not simply a branch manager of the Catholic Church, Inc..

It is a primary duty of bishops, as chief guardians of Catholic truth in their local churches, to call Catholics in a defective state of communion to a fuller communion with the Church.

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

He extended his «heartfelt condolences» to the local bishop and to «all the faithful of the diocese of Nnewi, in particular the families of the deceased and all those affected by this tragedy».

Pastoral and administrative authority rests with the bishop of the local church, by which is meant the diocese.

Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

For example, the local council and the bishops» council of the Russian Orthodox Church require a quorum of two - thirds of members, not total unanimity.

It does this by defining the mandate as a relationship between the local bishop and the individual Catholic theologian; it addresses the Catholic theology at the heart of the Catholic university without setting up a formal relationship with the university itself.

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 Bbishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for BishopsBishops.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

For most of this essay, however, I will assume that the local bishop is indeed the competent ecclesiastical authority.

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

He overruled the local bishops» objections and in January 2015 appointed Bishop Barros to head the diocese of Osorno.

In the history of the Western Church, Anthony's elevation from the grave to the altar remains the fastest since Pope Alexander III, in 1170, removed from local bishops the power to canonize saints and invested it exclusively in the papacy.

In December 2014, with the help of a grant from the Celebrating Family Fund from the Catholic Bishops» Conference, a Local Development Officer for the project was appointed.

Most of the Anglo - Catholic clergy who stayed in their ghetto did so because of their refusal to leave their people behind: asone Anglican priest who had attempted to take his Parish to Rome and had been repulsed by his local Catholic bishop put it to me, the essential was that «Rome has got to have a more creative view of the corporate nature of our present existence».

under the protection of the local Catholic bishop.

It is, after all, the bishop in the place who is the pastor of the local church, meaning the diocese.

«Born in Uganda in 1949, John Sentamu was the sixth of 13 children and was so small, the local bishop was called to baptise him immediately.

The ministry of episkopé continued this eucharistic focus, as bishops began to serve among the congregations, unifying the Eucharist of the local communities and that of the universal church.

But, lets say the bishop of the local Catholic diocese took a public poll during Sunday mass and asked for a show of hands as to how many of his congregants use an unapproved form of birth control?

His predecessor is to be found in the bishop or overseer of an ancient church, a man who, unlike modern bishops, was not primarily entrusted with oversight over many clergymen and local churches but was elected to oversee a single local church.

It was Laud's intention to enforce the use of the English Prayer Book and to strengthen the rule of the bishops over the local clergy.

(By the way, I'm an LDS bishop familiar with life in the Church in many parts of the country and the world, so I'm not just speaking from experience in my local neighborhood.)

The second part of the motion requested «the House of Bishops to investigate a means to develop sensitive, local pastoral arrangements for public prayer and thanksgiving with same - sex couples at these key moments in their lives, and to present their ideas to General Synod 2018, with a view to making proposals at General Synod 2019.»

Detroit's Chaldean Catholic bishop, Francis Y. Kalabat, told church leaders the diocese is reaching out to the government, the Iraqi embassy, the local Chaldean foundation, and the US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on behalf of the detainees, most of whom are «not hardened criminals but for the last decades have been great citizens.»

This completely excludes «women» from holding the position of «pastor, elder, bishop, overseer, etc.» in the «biblical» local church.

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

Bottom line: there is no bypassing the universal communion of local communions gathered around the bishop of Rome.

28, the chief ministers of the local church are called» bishops,» a term which is otherwise applied to them only by Paul or his imitators (Phil.

I don't care if it's the LDS leaders, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, The Unification Church, Orthodox Church, Amish Bishops or your local priest, pastor, imam or rabbi — men love to control other men and tell them what to believe, how to dress, what to eat, what to wear, who to marry....

Gionta, who had planned the celebration at the request of local Catholics, put up a notice at the shrine explaining that «I obey the bishop» (though since the bishop was clearly acting ultra vires, it is arguable that there was nothing to obey).

Last month, «the local police officer came to a home where a group of Pentecostals meet each Sunday,» Konstantin Bendas, deputy bishop of the Pentecostal Union, told Forum 18.

We Nicaraguans need a better country and we will achieve it,» Silvio Baez, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Managua, told local media.

During the second and third centuries of the Christian era the office of bishop was taken out of the local community and made into an area or district job.

But he is local «bishop,» overseer, supervisor, or facilitator of the total work of the total community.

Succeeding the bishop in general oversight of the local group was the priest, the term itself actually deriving from «presbyter,» meaning elder.

«In the handful of instances during the John Paul years in which local bishops tried to formally expel abusers from the priesthood, in a process known as laicization, the Vatican often urged caution — not to excuse abuse, but to defend the priesthood.».

Explaining the priests» grievances he said the local clergy and bishop were from different clans of the Igbo ethnic group which led them to question why someone from outside the diocese was appointed.