Sentences with phrase «own local bishop»

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..

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».

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 response, his local bishop felt compelled to give the following clarification.

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!»

«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.

Local bishops rule the neighborhood and everyone reports to him.

Local Bishops are supposed to follow those rules.

It would be up to the local bishop to make the decision.

A spokesman for Dolan said convention protocol calls for the local bishop to deliver such a prayer, meaning the slot would have normally gone to a Florida bishop, but that the Republican convention's organizers insisted on Dolan's participation.

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.»

In that light, Sen. Joseph Biden and like - minded Catholic politicians have nobody to blame but themselves for any problem they face during this campaign with local bishops.

This is a point worthmaking: we have been used to being given Nuncios who have been sent here as their last appointment before their retirement; they had nothing to lose by comfortably fitting in with the local bishops: this one does.

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

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..

«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.».

Pius XII did welcome prophetic protest in encouraging local bishops in Germany to speak out.

In the old days he would have had a blessing from the local bishop and an Indulgence.

[7] Newman would like the local bishops to act in the same way, but he was not holding his breath.

This is enshrined in Canon Law which makes the local bishop the moderator of «pious and sacredexercises» so that they are «fully in harmony with the laws of the Church» (Canon 839 # 2.

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

This, they contend, had reduced local bishops to little more than legates of the Pope.

Advocates of this view would argue that the local bishop needs a heightened autonomy over and against the norms of the universal Church.

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 Pope's word are a far cry from, our local Bishops in Kansas and Missouri that say over and over again that the poor and children don't deserve health care.

Fernández Martínez lost his job when the local bishop refused to approve him.

And his own local bishop, though forbidding publication of his long Explanations, had implied that perhaps they should be published eventually, treating with Luther through an eminent local abbot.

A local bishop can not - repeat can not - give an imprimatur.

He did not make a public reply for five months, awaiting a word of support from his local bishops, Cardinal Justin Rigali and Bishop Kevin Rhoades.

On the other side of the church stands the rectory, where in a basement room the five children gather every evening at 7:30 to pray the rosary and listen for the Blessed Mother's voice (the local bishop won't let them use the church for these vigils).

Without any means of survival, he steals some silverware from the home a local bishop (Colm Wilkinson) who has offered him food and lodgings; when the police return with Valjean under suspicion of the robbery, the bishop goes along with Valjean's lie that he gave him the silver.

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.

The 1850s saw elementary schools organized by ward houses with a board of trustees appointed by the local bishop to run them.

In compliance with the local bishop's wishes, most Catholic schools are currently teaching 100 per cent Catholic Christianity for GCSE RE.

For example, in Catholic schools the Patron is the local bishop.

For many Mormons, the first line of help outside the family is often the local bishop, a role somewhat akin to a pastor or a rabbi.

Not exact matches

But those seated in the cathedral noticed one participant missing, Episcopal Bishop Marc Andrus, the local Episcopal bishop.

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.

The LDS Church, which entrusts local leaders to determine local callings, does not pay clergy, nor does it send would - be bishops to seminary.

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.

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