Sentences with phrase «other bishops who»
Another major factor is the claim of Orthodoxy to be the Church founded by Christ, led by bishops who were appointed by other bishops who were appointed by others back to the apostles themselves, a concept known as Apostolic Succession.
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The churches have been reticent to impose their views on others» the Catholic bishops have not even suggested making contraception illegal» and quick to extend their services to anyone who needs them.
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.
Still others will speak about Syria's many martyred laity and clergy, including two Orthodox bishops — Boulos Yazigi and Mar Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim — who disappeared in April 2013, and a twelve - year - old evangelical boy and his father who were crucified for their Christian conversion last summer.
«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.
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.
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»).
One religious broadcaster who does not fit into any other category was the Roman Catholic bishop, Fulton J. Sheen.
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.
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.
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.
I saw on the AP wire a story about a former Mormon bishop who pled guilty to multiple counts of se - xually abusing minors, specifically foster / adoptive girls from other lands.
«As bishops and defenders of the human rights and religious freedom of all, weare alarmed by the deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq... Christians in particular are caught in the middle of civil strife between Sunnis and Shiites... We are deeply impressed by the courage of many Christians who remain in the land of their birth.»
Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.
The churches have been reticent to impose their views on others - the Catholic bishops have not even suggested making contraception illegal - and quick to extend their services to anyone who needs them.
«It sends a shot across the bow for bishops and other diocesan officials in other parts of the country, who have to wonder now if they've got criminal exposure, too.»
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....
Asked for a wish - list of what might help to arrest the decline of the Church in its former heartlands, he is emphatic and seems to relish making a list... one which rather chimes with what many other thinking Catholics would offer: «1) strong, evangelically assertive bishops who know how to handle the media and can call the people of the Church to live out their vocation as missionary disciples.
If I remember right, there were two other Bishops besides Fisher who didn't go along with Henry's lust - driven heresy — all the rest were just happy to keep their jobs and palaces.
The Congregation for Bishops (which in Cardinal Marc Ouellet has a firmly Ratzingerian prefect, who may well with the appointment of Mgr Egan be confirming that England's problems have at last been noticed in Rome) will soon be making a good number of other episcopal appointments in England, and they will be relying on Archbishop Mennini's advice; it has been surmised (though as far as I know, unsupported speculation is all it is) that Cardinal Ouellet is waiting for the retirement of Cardinal Murphy O'Connor from his Congregation before he moves ahead with these appointments, though he wasn't deterred from appointing Mgr Egan before this event.
While members of other religious orders, some diocesan priests, and even a few bishops who have cultivated a reputation for being «gay - friendly» have sharply criticized the November instruction, the Jesuits do seem to be in the vanguard of the attack.
Kasper, who had earlier criticized the Christology and method of Küng's On Being a Christian but who most persons close to the scene felt would be supportive on the issue of the boundaries of theological inquiry, has become one of the primary leaders of Küng's opposition in Germany (the other being Karl Lehmann of the University of Freiburg) and has now emerged as the major theological adviser to the German Bishops» Conference,
It is up to the Christian communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the gospel's unalterable words and to draw principles of the church... It is up to these Christian communities, with the help of the Holy Spirit, in communion with the bishops who hold responsibility and in dialogue with other Christian brethren and all men of good will, to discern the options and commitments which are called for in order to bring about the social, political and economic changes seen in many cases to be urgently needed.
Part of her motivation came from the appeals of other Catholics, especially bishops, who, feeling that they could not publicly challenge the Vatican, urged her to write the book.
The fake bishop donned a purple sash (really a scarf) over his vestments and mingled with cardinals and others who'd flown in from around the globe ahead of the conclave to pick a new pope.
Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.
Technically, the Pope didn't directly «remove» Finn, as the media has widely reported; rather, the bishop formally offered his resignation in accordance with canon 401, paragraph 2, of the Code of Canon Law, which reads: «A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.»
Who is more nearly living a Christian life??? I'm not Catholic, but do admire what nuns do, compared to the behavior of priests, bishops, cardinals, popes and all the other «princes of the church».
Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop, declares that «the people who think they understand God are always hurtful to other people....
The Roman nobles, combined with others who disliked reform and with German bishops who wished to reassert the power of the Holy Roman Emperor in the choice of a Pope, elected an Italian bishop.
That being said I don't know why the bishops and others don't want to talk about the women who do need the birth control pills for some very serious issues.
Marking the document by a bishop who had to remember the real purpose of certain statements might expose its true meaning so others would see the truth.
Among other achievements, he supported the appeal of a Frankish bishop against a powerful Frankish archbishop, compelled a great - grandson of Charlemagne to take back his divorced wife, excommunicated two bishops for supporting the divorce, and enforced his power over another archbishop who defied it.
The Council refers to two Christian bishops, one Eastern and the other Oriental Orthodox, who were abducted two years in Syria and whose whereabouts are still unknown.
... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»
... when the danger is common to all, that is, to bishops, clergy and laymen, let those who are in need of others not be abandoned by those of whom they are in need.
Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»
But his efforts were contradicted by the five conservative bishops who spoke on the other side.
The only other performer who really stands out alongside Ejiofor is the always impressive Lakeith Stanfield, who plays an organist at Pearson's church who begins to fear that he's doomed to Hell by associating with the bishop.
Carter describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white: his eccentric relatives who sometimes caused the boy to examine his heritage with dismay; the boyhood friends with whom he hunted with slingshots and boomerangs and worked the farm, but who could not attend the same school; and the eminent black bishop who refused to come to the Carters» back door but who would stand near his Cadillac in the front yard discussing crops and politics with Jimmy's father.