Sentences with phrase «of national bishops»

Other voting participants (priests, bishops and cardinals, known as synod fathers) include 114 representatives of national bishops» conferences; 13 heads of Eastern Catholic Churches; 25 heads of Vatican Congregations and Councils.

The youth leaders of the national bishops» conferences started to say: «It is not up to the Vatican to get involved in our youth.»

And, of course, there is much dispute about the «magisterial» status of national bishops conferences, with the Holy See tending to downplay their teaching authority.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, groups including the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobilized to restore an existing tax credit that's worth up to $ 13,570 for families who adopt children.

Meanwhile, groups including the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobilized to

In fact, when I searched the web for «Catholic» and «Bishop» and «Trayvon» and «Zimmerman» and «verdict» over the past week, I found only one bishop on the record: Retired Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola - Tallahassee, Florida, now president of the National Black Catholic Congress.

«Together with my brother bishops, we believe it is possible to simultaneously provide for the security of our country and have a humane refugee policy that upholds our national heritage and moral responsibility.»

He notes that the U.S. Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops employ 292 people in the central headquarters in Washington.

Charles Krauthammer called it an «accounting gimmick,» as did Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, writing for National Review Online, where he said Obama's compromise was a «farce,» a «snare and a delusion» designed to permit «bishops, priests, and nuns to save face while, in fact, paying for the contraception and abortifacients that the insurance companies will be required to provide.»

In the Texas case, plaintiff's lawyers are going for multimillions in damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in question.

The son of the Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, Acheson movingly described the ways in which the King James Bible, which the new RSV was to supplant, had once shaped American culture and our national life:

Whether the charism extends to bureaucracies that presumably serve the bishops» as the USCC is designed to be the practical arm of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCH)» is yet another qubishops» as the USCC is designed to be the practical arm of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCH)» is yet another quBishops (NCCH)» is yet another question.

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

A complicating factor is that some bishops who are most concerned about this development will keep their distance from the national bureaucracy, thus assuring that the relevant institutions will be left in the hands of those who either favor or do not understand what is happening.

In this connection, I recommend a little booklet just out from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics Remember the Holocaust.

The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.

Awhile back the bishop sent her to a nasty little church, that had run off more than one preacher, refused to contribute a dime to any national church program, and cherished a reputation for being one of the most hostile congregations in the conference.

Founded nearly two years ago, the groups boasts a politically diverse group of almost 100 Christian leaders, including Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jim Wallis, president of the group Sojourners.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1980 published a predominantly negative statement on capital punishment, approved by a majority vote of those present though not by the required two - thirds majority of the entire conference.

The centrality of human rights to Catholic social teaching is made clear in the opening chapter of the National Conference of Bishops pastoral letter on the U.S. economy.

Even the Catholic Church uses this anthropology in a few of its official statements like the Second Vatican Council's Gaudium et Spes, and statements by national bishops conferences in Peru and the Netherlands, as well as the Vatican's 1986 Instruction on Liberation Theology.

Other statements, notably various declarations issued from 1969 to 1989 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. and a 1984 statement by the Chinese Catholic bishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at concBishops in the U.S. and a 1984 statement by the Chinese Catholic bishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at concbishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at conception.

Toward the end of their statement, the 15 bishops who signed this statement called on every U.S. Catholic to join in a «great national campaign» on behalf of religious liberty.

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

«Marriage Preparation and Cohabiting Couples: Information Report,» National Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Marriage and Family, Origins, September 16, 1999.

• Before the bishops adopted a program for implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the document aimed at renewing the Catholic identity of colleges and universities, Tim Unsworth of the National Catholic Reporter anticipated the move and outlined the liberal fallback position.

Yesterday Dr. Russell Moore, the new president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, stood with Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, at the National Press Club.

These groups were the national Council of Catholic Bishops, the Federal Council of Churches (Protestant), and a coalition of three national Jewish organizations.

Their translation, the product of fifteen years of collective labor, has now appeared in this handsome edition with the imprimatur of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime of the sects could also be the winter of the Catholic Church.

the fourth century, under the leadership of bishop Papa bar Aggai of Seleucia, there were efforts made to shape a national organization for the Persian church.

Until fairly recently in the UK, the Conference of Bishops and the National Council of Priests were dominated by the same liberal dogmatism that simply would not allow alternative views, such as those offered by the Faith movement, to be promoted or debated.

Two recent documents from the Holy See — Pastores Gregis, the post-synod apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, and the Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops from the Congregation for Bishops — vigorously affirm the value and necessity of national episcopal conferences while refining and clarifying their proper role.

Dolan, the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, also will give the closing benediction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.

[19] National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995), directive 47.

Other groups, including the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Christian Coalition, and the American Jewish Committee, did not distinguish themselves by rushing to join the NCC - led panic.

While governments have the right to defend their people, the bishops emphasized that conflict resolution and nonviolent means of national defense are most in keeping with the call of Jesus.

Thomas Reese, writing about gay marriage in the National Catholic Reporter, argues that the Catholic bishops of the United States should «admit defeat and move on.»

We confess to being somewhat puzzled that other institutions, including the National Council of Churches and the Catholic bishops conference, have not publicly joined in the NAE initiative.

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs who lived in the forest in a little round hut... you can order the complete text from the NOPP, the National Office for Pedophile Protection, (also known as the USCCB, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

Meeting in Atlanta, the bishops heard from Al Notzon III, the chairman of the National Review Board, on the progress made 10 years after they tasked the lay group with «advising the bishops on the handling of sexual abuse of minors by clergy.»

When President of the National Council of Catholic Bishops / United States Catholic Conference twenty - five years ago, the late John Cardinal Krol wrote the CHD's guidelines with regard to upholding the Church's moral teaching when it grants funds.

♦ We have written elsewhere about the sometimes virulent, sometimes tempered, anti-Catholicism of the New York Times (see «Those Turbulent Bishops,» National Review, December 31, 1989).

Here, too, questions could be raised, but the fact is that on immigration the U.S. bishops take pretty much the position of the Wall Street Journal, which, only half tongue in cheek, calls for a constitutional amendment abolishing national borders.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in ABishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Abishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in national meeting in Atlanta.

Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has not responded officially to this new Vatican initiative.

Cromwell wished a national Church, supported by the State and tithes, but without bishops or the Book of Common Prayer.

Eugene J. Fisher is Director for Catholic - Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Bishop Joseph Imesch, chairman of the pastoral's drafting committee, has made clear» most recently in his report on the status of the pastoral at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops annual November meeting» that the pastoral «process» will continue for several more years, if necessary, and yet another draft is scheduled to be presented to the bishops for voting in NovembeBishops annual November meeting» that the pastoral «process» will continue for several more years, if necessary, and yet another draft is scheduled to be presented to the bishops for voting in Novembebishops for voting in November 1991.