Sentences with phrase «own magisterium»

Would a modern Father Sorin be commended for founding a college for the purpose of inculcating students with the truths embodied in the magisterium?

It has a magisterium, found in successive documents of U.N. secretaries general beginning with Boutros Boutros - Ghali's Agenda for Peace in 1992.

This latest scandal is just another bite out of man who should humble himself and know that he will always need our Savior, His Church with Her Tradition, Her Bible and Her Magisterium.

They began to mix up the magisterium with macho masculinism, as if the pope were Hemingway.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

To Evangelicals it appears that, in practice if not in theory, the Catholic understanding of Magisterium, including infallibility, results in the Roman Catholic Church standing in judgment over Scripture, instead of vice versa.

You should study the teachings of the Church and what the Magisterium says, your soul is on the line.

Such exploration should be undertaken within a community and tradition that provide necessary correctives by reference to the rule of faith (regula fidei) and teaching authority (magisterium).

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

So... you are fully aware of the Catholic Church's teaching on these matters of faith taught by the magisterium as truth, yet dismiss them as false, AND call yourself Catholic.

The same holds for Pitstick's claim that the Church's magisterium teaches that Christ's descent was glorious and without suffering.

Articles such as this tries to fly in the face of the Magisterium, failing of course.

Catholics believe that this teaching authority is invested in the Magisterium, namely, the Bishop of Rome, who is the successor of Peter, and the bishops in communion with him.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

In the letter, which I couldn't find online, he begins by «reiterat [ing] my uncompromised commitment to the Magisterium of the Church in all its fullness, including the Church's unambiguous teaching on homosexuality,» providing a number of examples.

Without a clearly defined and accepted teaching magisterium, a church is doomed to face crisis after crisis.

If by dialogue one means that a settled question is, in fact, an open question and that the Magisterium's answer can be rejected without consequences for one's communion with the Church, the statement is correct.

In our judgment, those conservatives are misguided, since such platforms would also exceed the competence of the magisterium and would, therefore, bring the magisterium into discredit.

To cite but a few examples, there is no mention of distinctively Catholic moral teaching, or of bishops and communion with Peter, or of the teaching authority of the Magisterium.

The Magisterium, it seems, is Fr.

But all things considered, even the prudential application the Church has made of its timeless principles has been a testament to the reliability of the magisterium.

Indeed, I think that a cogent argument can be made for the necessity of something like the Catholic magisterium — a divinely assisted authority that has the «final say» in fundamental questions of interpretation.

The fact that the pope, or a council, can address contemporary situations and issues directly, and tell us how the biblical teachings apply to them, is another reason why we can expect the utterances of the contemporary magisterium to resolve disagreements more effectively than the biblical texts themselves.

An advantage to having a living magisterium, however, is that it can issue clarifications of previous pronouncements whenever need for this arises.

Not throwing the Magisterium of the Church over programs here, in the U.S., on which Rome has neither specifically spoken and which it doesn't understand (which we don't even fully understand at this time).

However, it could be an immense struggle to go it alone, without the Church [Tradition], the Bible and the Magisterium, as the Bible describes for us.

On questions that are not yet subject to infallible definition, the International Theological Commission may legitimately explore opinions and possibilities which the Magisterium ultimately rejects or corrects.

The magisterium is not a book or books.

The Faith Movement proposes these ideas in a spirit of obedience to the Churchs Magisterium.

That the majority of the relatively few men coming forward for priesthood now want to be faithful to the magisterium is likely due in large part to the enormous efforts of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to teach the «full faith», the «full content of the life of Christ».

Indeed, the ITC - which recently even questioned the existence of limbo and thus, by implication, the necessity of baptism to enter heaven - forms no part of the Magisterium but is merely an advisory body.

Familiaris Consortio presents a wholly compassionate yet objectively truthful account of the Magisterium of the Church's teachings on marriage and the family and in its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.»

In the long run of Church history, what will be remembered about the pontificate of Benedict XVI is its luminous magisterium and powerful homiletics.

The Second Vatican Council teaches, and the continuing Magisterium of successive popes bears witness to, the indissoluble link between God's revelation, our final end and the way we live our lives here and now as us Christians.

If I may be allowed a rejoinder, as per the usual debating protocol, I would begin by commenting that the authority of the Church's Magisterium can hardly be challenged by an article in L'Osservatore Romano.

It is due to this profoundly personal sacramental meaning of the body that we find a consistent teaching about homosexuality in the Bible (Gn 3 and 19:1 - 11; Lev 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Cor 6:9; Rm 1:18 - 32; 1 Tim 1) and throughout the tradition, wherein this teaching would be infallibly taught by the ordinary universal episcopal magisterium.

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

Our life in his Holy Spirit through the Church and the sacraments and the necessity of an infallible Magisterium likewise flow naturally from this presentation of Christ and his work through the ages.

We therefore accept unequivocally all the defined teachings and Councils of the Church from Jerusalem to Vatican II and we profess our loyalty to the Magisterium in communion with the See of Peter.

Living in the midst of a culture of death, the only teaching that these witnesses of the Third Millennium find «relevant» isdynamic fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Unless we defer to the authority of a magisterium, and allow it to tell us what the Bible means and what we should believe, our understanding of the Bible and our theologies inevitably differ.

The Faith movement has this principle at the heart of its approach to the formation of young Catholics, seeking to foster an inquisitive approach to the faith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created universe.

Even the International Theological Commission can not be put on a par with the infallible Magisterium.

The first is the website [http://www.usordinariate.org/] of the new US Ordinariate, the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter, a name which splendidly makes very clear a basic characteristic of most Anglican converts these days: their loyalty to the Magisterium (undoubtedly one reason for the firm opposition of most of our hierarchy to the idea ofan independent Anglican Catholic jurisdiction 20 years ago).

And this we hold as the teaching of the ordinary magisterium.

At least for Catholics, that Great Tradition includes the authoritative teaching of the living Magisterium exercised by the bishops with and under the Bishop of Rome.

Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium.

Neuhaus does not recognize that Origenism, which entails a super «salvation not tied to doing God's will in this life, can not be squared with the Church's ordinary and universal Magisterium.

So to answer your question... no, it is not just two verses that proclaim how the Church arrives at Truth... it is by Tradition and the Magisterium and the Bible which holds us all together by the grace of God.