With the dawn of the Vatican II era,
radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns» lives.
Not exact matches
The Catholic faith is meant, of course, but, more obviously, faith
in the scenario of an ever more progressive
church in which he and his bold band are the vanguard of inevitable and
radical change.
Because they did not wish to upset their more conservative parishioners, they often left the
churches in ignorance of the
radical changes taking place.
Second,
in the community of
churches in mission called the Council for World Mission (CWM), there have been
radical changes in the thinking and practice of mission.
In a situation of such
radical change, Pentecostal
churches help to restore the community values of the lost rural world.
But the increasing presence of women with feminist sympathies
in positions of leadership
in the
church may open the way to more
radical changes in due course.
He realised that the old methods needed refreshing, stating: «This vital field of action for the
Church requires a
radical change of mentality, an authentic new awakening of conscience
in everyone.
The only alternative was the
radical Humanist alternative which the
Church had rejected with emphasis and fear 60 years earlier, and that alternative
in even its most modern presentation is still untrue, and even more untrue, and it is the cause of the totally unexpected and devastating fruits of
change which we see all around us.
It would never vote for any
radical amendment of the World Council of
Churches Constitution nor would it be prepared to accept any
change in the World Council of
Churches ecclesiology as declared
in the well - known Toronto Statement.
And if the
church is going to join Jesus
in this task, some of the
radical changes which have been suggested
in this book may be necessary.
Catholic interest
in the whole
Church does not always lead to
radical change of the denominational mind.)
Change, to keep the
church alive
in the 21st century (
in the UK at least where churchgoing is about as normal as ferret juggling) needs to be far, far more
radical than that, and based on an assessment of what real people's real needs are, rather than a thirst for novelty.
I suppose this is a step
in the right direction, but I think that
in general, the idea of «small groups» as a program or ministry of the
church (whether it is of first or secondary importance) falls far short of the the
radical change that is needed to truly be the
church in the world.
If it is not a revolution, this is certainly a
radical change in the understanding and practice of ministry
in the Catholic
Church.
His calls for
changes may be
radical from the highly conservative and exclusionary perspective of the
Church as it is now but
in comparison to the rest of the planet he's still far, far behind.
In the Vatican II era in the early 1960's, radical changes in the Catholic Church threaten the course of nuns» live
In the Vatican II era
in the early 1960's, radical changes in the Catholic Church threaten the course of nuns» live
in the early 1960's,
radical changes in the Catholic Church threaten the course of nuns» live
in the Catholic
Church threaten the course of nuns» lives.