Sentences with phrase «rightful place in the church»

It's high time the Catholic Church embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and bishops.

Through this revelation of God's female aspect, woman's full humanity is affirmed and she is able to take her rightful place in the church and in the order of redemption.

By recapturing scripture's simple, genuine and natural sense, Calvin returned scripture to its rightful place in the church.

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Only in the church, the writers argue, do old people find their rightful role and place.

Communication leaders in the mainline churches would be much more faithful to the demands of the gospel if they were to accept the limitations of the mass media, and then help other church leaders devise a total communication strategy for the churches in which mass media took its rightful place alongside worship services, group processes, retreats, occasions for fellowship, service, education and mission — in other words, as a part of the whole life and witness of the church.

But granted that «heart and soul and strength,» or feeling and intuition and will, or sentiment, the unconscious depths and physical vitality, are all to be employed in exercising love to God and man, yet the «mind» — intelligence and understanding — also has its rightful, indispensable place in the economy of human and of Church life.