Sentences with phrase «responsibility as a bishop»

I think that is a part of my responsibility as a bishop.

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I also thought the statement on the Iraq War, issued by outgoing president Bishop William Skylstad and approved by the conference, was a thoughtful teaching exercise in which, as I put it on the First Things website, the bishops «neither exceed their competence nor shirk their responsibility.»

The promiscuous position - taking of documents such as «Political Responsibility» is quite unwarranted by any peculiar competence of bishops or church bureaucracies.

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

Among the points made was that, despite the bishops» declared intention, a statement such as «Political Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interest group.

Since it sees the mandate as a relationship between the bishop and the theologian rather than the university, the Bevilacqua proposal also places the responsibility for securing the mandate on the Catholic theologian, not on the university.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

That also gives a great sense of the responsibility, as people do look to their bishop to be a source of hope.

Bishop Mortimer Arias spoke of evangelism as the primary calling and responsibility of the churches and drew equally on the Lausanne Congress and the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops as evidence.

After 25 years in seminary education, Clymer is particularly well equipped to handle his present responsibilities as chairman of the committee which functions as a liaison between the church's Council of Bishops and the denomination's ten seminaries.

The Encyclical Ut unum sint lists among the five still controversial areas: «I) the relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matter of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God,» and «4) the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith.»

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

He had lost his ability to communicate effectively, and communication, as in being a teacher, is the first responsibility of a bishop.

The idea that bishops are pastors who have a responsibility for the soul welfare also of politicians, the idea that bishops are to help also politicians to form their consciences in accord with their professed beliefs» such ideas are dismissed as a pious guise for partisan power plays.

The bishops don't have this problem; it's time that they took some responsibility for their people, as they are supposed to be pastors, or shepherds of them, and they are supposed to serve them, towel in hand.

So the recommendations of Luther's Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church were being realised; if the officials of the Myth, the Christian bishops and priests, would not themselves reform the Church then secular officials would do it, as Christians with the responsibility to act in society.

He said, «My statements to the press were misconstrued and misrepresented but I take full responsibility for this as I tender my unreserved apology to the Catholic bishops and by extension my Christian brothers and sisters who are displeased with my statement on tithing.