Sentences with word «prelate»

In 1979, a high - ranking prelate in the Roman curia asked Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, then Archbishop of Boston, about reports of widespread homosexuality among clergy and seminarians.

No one is clamoring for prelates to praise divorce.

The second work which helps balance the deficiencies of Ericksen's otherwise valuable volume is The Catholic Bishops of Europe and the Nazi Persecutions of Catholics and Jews by Vincent Lapomarda, S.J., which recounts the courage and compassion of prominent Catholic prelates who resisted Nazism.

In fact, the Catholic school system was launched by prelates worried that the public system had been overtaken by Protestants — and was out to get them.

The straight - talking American prelate lamented the fact that while the Second Vatican Council had «called for a renewal of the sacrament of penance», what emerged «sadly, in many places, was the disappearance of the sacrament».

A few years ago, I received from a high - ranking prelate a reply to an article published by First Things.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

«While I'm hardly an expert in this area, and there are certainly far more competent voices than mine, the Archdiocese of New York would be honored to be part of any such conversations,» the influential prelate wrote about the center.

He wrote to prelates about the matter, and «I published my theses, inviting learned men and them alone to discuss them with me... By a miracle which astounded me more than anyone, these theses were spread through almost the entire world», even though, being academic theses, the text was dense and summary.

In 1095, in a carefully crafted speech before prelates and nobles in Claremont, France, Pope Urban II called Europe to action: A Crusade to aid the Christian empire of Byzantium.

Since the 1920s, various prelates and the pages of archdiocesan yearbooks have claimed that there were as many....

The organization has called him the «Teflon prelate.»

Italian teenagers knelt prayed next to elderly nuns in full habit; Vatican prelates and Roman citizens surrounded American seminarians and students.

To the consternation of some bishops here, members of the Board arranged on their own to consult with leading prelates in the Roman Curia and were greatly heartened by the understanding and encouragement they received.

At a time when Church of England prelates were berating the French Revolution for its subversive teaching, the spirit of democracy and its blasphemous character, Carey welcomed the new spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity.

In some other context, that would be perfectly acceptable, but the pope should have been aware that for Twal, for Michael Sabbah, the patriarch who preceded Twal, and for a long line of Arab Christian prelates, «King Herod» refers precisely to Israel.

An anticipation that the Council was going to exceed one or two years in time was a direct consequence of this tension as was the rise to prominence andleadership in debate of particularly forceful prelates and / or national groupings.

Was this one of the American «culture war bishops,» as commentators have termed them, that collection of prelates driven by hate, anger, and power?

Among those images is the idea that the Vatican is a nest of self - centered prelates, constantly bickering with one another, careening from one crisis to the next, as Pope Benedict — supposedly unable or unwilling to end the chaos — locks himself away in his private study, trying to escape from it all by writing books.

«A large number of the theologians, and some very influential European prelates did know that the old mould would not do, but they had no alternative mould to offer, except what is technically called «Modernism» or rationalism in theology.

I mentioned this to a curial prelate who said he was pleased to hear it, and just a little surprised.

But the idea that Francis is looking for ways to rationalize and effectively permit sin, either by deferring his authority to controversial prelates or under the guise of avoiding rigorism in favor of mercy, runs counter to his larger witness.

What can hardly be denied is that Archbishop Nichols is a good deal more inclined to support the authority of Rome than once he was; and it is not only The Tablet which has observed the shift with some scepticism: he was until very recently (and perhaps still is) regarded by many in Rome as one who in Birmingham behaved as an orthodox pope - supporting prelate should in order to get to Westminster.

Newman's sermon to the assembled prelates in the hot summer of 1852 was certainly complimentary: «And so that high company moves on into the holy place [Newman was picturing the procession of dignitaries with Cardinal Wiseman the last to enter the chapel of St Mary's Oscott]; and there, with august rite and awful sacrifice, inaugurates the great act which brings it hither.»

Nevertheless, at this moment in the life of the Church — indeed, at the instigation of the Supreme Pontiff, who has called for parrhesia on numerous occasions — there is much to say, and many prelates are speaking out.

The history of the Catholic Church is replete with corrupt Popes and untransformed politically ambitions Church prelates.

That placing of the free churches first by an Anglican prelate will not be forgotten.

It has to be acknowledged that Francis has made some controversial prudential appointments, and empowered prelates like Bruno Forte and Walter Kasper, who, at the very least, have caused confusion about where the Church stands on certain «hot button» issues.

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

Throughout Europe the cathedrals offered opportunity for sculptors to provoke somewhat hollow laughter with their skin and bone effigies of «death», set beside or over the memorial of a deceased prelate represented in all his earthly glory.

Yet the only new as well as significant information in the recent spate of priestly abuse «reports» was the revelation, horrific as it is, that the actions of some Irish prelates enabled serious child abusers to continue their crimes.

The typical Hanoverian prelate may have basked on the summit, except when he descended for an occasional charity sermon, but many quiet pastors like Bishop Wilson were well aware of the practical needs of their people.

Well, if Mannix set the twentieth - century pattern for Catholic prelates Down Under, George Pell will be regarded by historians as the man who set the pattern for the twenty - first century.

I am clearly disappointed by the response from the right reverent Prelate the Bishop of Bradford, but I hear his argument.

Fellow APPHG member Lord Collins added, «I am pleased to hear the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Guildford note that religious freedom is not ultimately in opposition to other rights such as freedom of expression, non-discrimination, women's rights and gay rights.

Presiding Prelate of the Worldwide Word Ministries, Prophet John Anokye, says the Gender Minister's statement against almsgiving may fail without an alternative source of livelihood.

In his own remark, the Benue State deputy governor, who is a member of the church, eulogised the incumbent Prelate for his commitment to his pastoral job.

The gutters of Rue Saint - Jacques carried mire and refuse, which the disgusted prelate prodded away with his episcopal crozier.

Farthing has to rush across a vast ocean and a huge continent carried by an incredible Sea Dragon and accompanied by a strange magician if he has even a chance to save his sister Rustina.And very strangely, neither the rich Prelate nor his chief of police seem keen to even lift a finger.Dirt, the first book in a huge, continent spanning saga where dragons are an intel...

The statue of St. Peter towers over prelates attending a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 8, 2018.