Sentences with phrase «radical changes in the church»

With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns» lives.

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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.

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