Sentences with phrase «on full communion»

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If, on the one hand, the goal of full communion between all mainstream Christian denominations seems as far away as ever, I would want to say, on the other, that there is a sense in which fundamental aims of the mid-20th-century ecumenical movement have already been achieved.

Over the last twenty - five years, the Russian Orthodox leadership persistently rejected Rome's proposals for a meeting of pope and patriarch, and based those rejections on its distress at the revival and vitality of the Eastern Catholic Churches (and especially the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), which are Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

In the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

How full and deep is this volume of accumulated resources transmitted from generation to generation, and whether the volume is made deeper with values more profound, or made shallow with values more superficial, depends on how full and deep is the communion between parent and child, between man and man, between diverse divisions of society and of humanity.

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

On this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus DeOn this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Deon the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Dei.

It is fair to say that the two long - standing dialogues in the West that bore highest promise and once seemed to discern on the horizon the prospect of full communion were the dialogues with the Anglican and Lutheran communions.

We may be called on to catechise others in the Church, such as children and young people or adults seeking full communion with Christ.

It said: «We are aware that our other ecumenical partners may find this a further difficulty on the journey towards full communion.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., on Pope Francis and Christians in the Middle East: The Chaldean and Syriac Catholic Churches of Iraq and Syria, while differing in rite and tradition from the Latin West, are integral members of the universal Catholic Church, in full communion with the....

Half - a-dozen years before he administered to me the grace of full communion he came to serve as the pastor of St. John's, the church on the Creighton University campus, where I then taught.

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in....