Sentences with phrase «other bishops of»

The Bishop of Rome was regarded by all other bishops of the Church as «first among equals,» not on account of any alleged jurisdictional supremacy accruing to the See of Peter, but in respect to the antiquity and greatness of the city of Rome, the first capital of the empire...

One wonders how many other bishops of the day could have thought or done the same.

Not exact matches

Look at ecclesiastical history and you will figure out that the ancient bishops or pastors of single congregations were independent from each other.

Washington (CNN)- America's Catholic bishops have criticized the White House's mandate for insurers to provide free contraception coverage to employees, but plenty of other Catholic groups have endorsed the plan - some taking swipes at the bishops in the process.

In my experience, bishops think they belong at the center of things but for reasons entirely different from why other powerful people are powerful.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives.

In deed... that the bishops and other catholic leaders begin to realise that the culprits must be brought to justice instead of hiding and protecting them.

But nowhere does he even mention the fact that in other important sections the book evaluates work of the American Catholic Bishops, statements from several mainline Protestant churches, and publications of M. Douglas Meeks, Max Stackhouse, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and several civil rights reformers, including Jesse Jackson.

I'll say, and the Synod of the Church of England just admitted women bishops, the Jews and Muslims in Palestine are at each other's throats again, and a new dinosaur with 4 wings was just dug up in China (no doubt planted by Satan).

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

Why do corporate lawyers and lawyers for «people» move past each other in the legal system like bishops of different colors on a chessboard?

In truth, the bishops of Malta, and other bishops around the world who go about exclaiming that it's impossible to obey God regarding sex, are setting in motion two very destructive ideas.

With the blessing of his bishop, Grey left the pastorate to organize on two fronts — in the churches of Illinois and with other antigambling groups around the country.

Some hold that numerous bishops have failed because of their complicity in corrupt ecclesial structures, while others believe that these leaders lacked the courage to teach unpopular truths and to govern their own dioceses.

It is vitally important to recognise the truth, whenever the topic of sexual abuse is discussed, that there have been many cases of such evil and the cover - up of it by individual Priests, Bishops and others in various Catholic dioceses in the world.

We find some affinity with some of the other Movements: like them we have grown and flourished though on a more modest scale and with a quite different style: we are much smaller, we are not international, we own no properties or schools, and our priests are all diocesan, working in parishes under the direction of their bishops.

«We have about 25 % of our graduates who enter the priesthood or religious life, whilst others work for bishops and run Catholic institutions.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

Holloway goes on to recount another experience of rejection following Vatican II «for refusing to go along with the New Theology and publicly rebuking bishops for their rave reviews of Hans Kung and others» adding ruefully, «I never did win.»

Joan Bakewell, in the February 6th edition of The Times, decided that the Pope's decision to lift decrees of excommunication from four Lefebvrist bishops, one of whom absurdly denies the historical veracity of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, should be linked to his Regensburg Address: in her view this was a sign of an increased antagonism on the part of the Vatican towards other religions.

The fractures within Protestantism, coupled with other developments such as the move to allow women bishops in the Church of England, however, suggest that the movement toward visible unity is in stasis.

«I think the take - away from this is, it's clear the administration is serious about its efforts to address the concerns of the Catholic bishops and others as it relates to the insurance mandate.»

Davidek and some of the other putative bishops had already died, but those men whom they had ordained and who were deemed qualified for the priesthood were «conditionally» ordained and their positions regularized under the hierarchy.

At the heart of what these bishops and others have called a «merciful» path is a frenzied desire for happiness and for the avoidance of pain and suffering, supposing that these people have suffered enough.

Christians, on the other hand — and especially bishops — were charged to be «lovers of the poor,» a category that comprised both those poor in fact («deep poverty») and those who lived under the constant threat of poverty («shallow poverty»).

As the successors of the Apostles, Bishops are the custodians, not the inventors, of marriage and all the other sacraments.

The grace which we received in the bishop's laying on of hands and the constant renewal of grace in the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession deify us: through that grace we grow in virtue, through that grace we shine as «other Christs» in this world and for all eternity.

In 305, the Synod of Elvira in Spain demanded celibacy of bishops and other clergy, and this came to be the rule in the Western church.

There were groups of CofE bishops and others lying to Rome to seek unity.

But, she said, they are «encouraging and welcome, and we hope that they would translate into the same kind of openness from other bishops here in this country and across the world.»

As Ambrose, the fourth - century bishop of Milan, told the recently initiated: «You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes; that which is not seen is more really seen, for the object of sight is temporal, but that other eternal, which is not apprehended by the eye, but is discerned by the mind and spirit» (Ambrose of Milan, De mysteriis, III, 15).

On the other hand, in 2002, the bishop of Brooklyn denied a full Catholic funeral to mobster John Gotti, but permitted the family to hold a private memorial Mass..

It was this, that the Church does not only consist of the clergy, that is the Pope, the bishops and the priests, organized to look after the eternal salvation of others, but that we all, baptized Catholics, are the Church.

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

At a time when the Patriarchate paid Arab priests a subsistence salary which forced them to rely on fees from baptisms, weddings and funerals to feed their families, it was charged that monies sent from Imperial Russia and other Orthodox countries for the welfare of the Arab Orthodox went directly into the pockets of the bishops and the patriarch.

The means adopted to arrive at this end was to place great authority in the hands of powerful bishops and then, in the fourth and fifth centuries, in the hands of a central, authoritative church in Rome under whose leadership the others were expected to be subject.

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

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.

My thanks to Richard John Neuhaus for a generally balanced assessment of past, present, and future («Boston and Other Bishops,» Public Square, February).

But previously, they have called for Mr Barros and other Karadima - trained bishops to resign, as well as a handful of other Chilean bishops with poor records on dealing with abuse cases.

He will join 25 other Bishops in the Church of England as the newest member of the «Lords Spiritual» who vote on bills passed by MPs in the House of Commons.

In other words, how can bishops and priests credibly speak of fidelity in marriage if they themselves are not faithful to their vows?

The church's prayers and its actions must also extend to queens and presidents, bishops and vicars, deans and sheriffs, garbage collectors and safety inspectors, and all others who bear the burden of office.

Johnson graphically illustrates the moral schizophrenia of much contemporary moral and religious - ethical thought, including that of the U.S. Catholic bishops and other official religious bodies.

In the United States, health care providers and others involved in the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warned.

Bishops who promised to be fathers to their priests toss to the wolves the innocent and the guilty alike, all in the name of «protecting the children,» but protecting, in fact, themselves and an institution that has no reason for being other than to minister the justice and mercy of God.

For example, the bishops maintain that the first use of even the smallest counterforce nuclear weapons is always wrong, but they recognize that others within the church community might come to a different conclusion.

To encourage a more effective bishop - priest relationship, others have suggested reducing the size of larger dioceses.