Sentences with phrase «since vatican»

The policy adopted since Vatican II by the bishops of England and Wales of fostering an «English Catholicism» was especially developed under Cardinal Hume's leadership, and it has much going for it.

«If, as expected,» comments Piers Read, «Pope Benedict is to allow the saying of the Mass in the Tridentine rite, one can envisage a revival of a liturgy not seen since Vatican II».

Since the Vatican announced that Francis would be visiting America, many commentators have declared that Francis would «challenge» the American public.

Catholics, SINCE VATICAN II, believe that Church means «people of God.»

Mass has been in English (in the US anyway) since Vatican II in the 1960's.

All the changes in the Church since Vatican II have been in the direction of relaxation and softening.

Since Vatican II, the Catholic church, both at international and national levels, has actively pursued dialogue with people of all faiths, whilst continuing to proclaim Christ as «the way, the truth and the life».

As to the Roman Catholic community, it has been buffeted by the same social and cultural forces, especially since Vatican II (probably inevitably) greatly weakened the institutional defenses against the overall culture.

The changes that have taken place in relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants since Vatican II.

They've been frustrated, even angry, ever since the Vatican ordered two sweeping investigations into the religious views and lifestyles of American nuns.

Increasingly since Vatican II, Catholic and non-Catholic theologians have read and appropriated each others» work in this area.

According to a leading Roman Catholic theologian, Charles Curran, ever since Vatican II the emphasis in his church has been on the use of unction for illness, though the last desperate remedy of unction in extremis has not been abandoned.

The renewal of revelation theology, especially since Vatican II, is trying to redress this imbalance.

The Roman Catholic Church, for instance, has seen more changes in the decade since Vatican II than it saw in the previous century.

Another important factor today is that, since Vatican II, Catholicism is deeply and irreversibly committed to the quest for Christian unity, and many Catholics sense a tension, if not a contradiction, between ecumenism and conversions.

It is the ecumenical movement even more than my teaching at Yale (since Vatican II, all in the divinity school and the department of religious studies) that has been the context of my thinking.

Ross Douthat has given us a genuine cri de coeur and an exemplary demonstration of a mind willing to rethink a cherished narrative of the Church since Vatican Council II.

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

This inconspicuousness contrasts with the highly publicized liturgical reforms within Roman Catholicism since Vatican II.

But since the Vatican destroyed the original texts of the Bible, they don't exist anymore, and we will never know the truth of what was said.

Not exact matches

The now retired Pope Benedict had been living at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo since he formally stepped down as head of 1.2 billion Catholics around the world and left Vatican City on February 28.

I still don't understand how they can insist on this though, since even the Vatican had approved the use of condoms back in 2010.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

This task is very similar to the one that was imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment, and to which the Second Vatican Council, as the fruit of long and difficult research, found real solutions for the Catholic Church. . . .

Over the past 40 years, since the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), the Catholic Church in the U.S. has become increasingly divided over liturgy, theology, catechesis, ministry, sexuality and a host of other issues.

The «creative ideas» of theologians were respected at the Second Vatican Council, he writes, but since then such theologians have been «attacked and silenced by the hierarchy».

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

CNN: Pope Benedict makes first appearance since resignation news Huge crowds in the Vatican cheered Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday as he made his first public appearance since announcing his resignation at the end of the month.

Pressure had been building on the Vatican to proceed with criminal charges against Wesolowski, a Polish native ordained by Saint John Paul II, since the accusations against him became public.

Huge crowds in the Vatican cheered Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday as he made his first public appearance since announcing his resignation at the end of the month.

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first non-communist Polish prime minister since the Second World War, a conference met at the Vatican to consider «The Church in the Moment of Change in 1980 - 1989 in East Central Europe.»

We must have, in the pulpit and in the school, and also in the home, definite, full, doctrinal and spiritual formation to give wisdom and fulfilment, but the whole tenor and atmosphere of the Church since the end of the Second Vatican Council means that a negative approach to other churches, other faiths, other people is now totally impossible.

The second Vatican Council urged that these texts be sung, as has every official document since the Council.

That policy has been unevenly applied in the years since, said John L. Allen Jr., CNN's senior Vatican analyst, but it has had an effect on public perception.

Since 2014, Cardinal Pell has been responsible for draining the Vatican financial swamp of corruptions that had become epidemic, ingrained, and virtually institutionalized.

He concludes that, since «sexual union is not part of the essence of marriage, as the Catechism of the Council of Trent and Vatican II teach, consequently, the exercise of the sexual act between divorced and [civilly] remarried couples does not harm the existing sacramental bond.»

For ever since Pius Xll's Mediator Dei and also at the Second Vatican Council the liturgical prayer has been given such priority over the private prayer of individuals and groups that — despite papal warnings — one is easily tempted to think that private prayer is more or less superfluous, especially if we are as involved in our liturgical prayer as we ought to be.

Vaticanus, dating from the fourth century, has been in the Vatican Library since about 1841.

Talk about revolutions and semi-revolutionary changes in the Catholic Church has been a commonplace since the Second Vatican Council.

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

That is not surprising since all of them, in one way or another, trace back to Vatican II and its ecclesiology.

Facing East is certainly not an innovation, since, until the Second Vatican Council, it was the universal Catholic practice for at least fifteen hundred years, with some scholars contending that it goes back to the very beginnings of the Church.

A special issue at the Second Vatican Council and throughout Christianity, especially since World War II, was the relation between Christianity and its parent faith, Judaism.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

Younger Catholics have taken stock of the not terribly fruitful modernist tendencies the Church has espoused since the Second Vatican Council, as well as the enduring religious relevance of its classical artistic heritage.

Before the reforms of Vatican II, Flannery O'Connor wrote of a man she knew who had converted to Catholicism because, he came to believe, Jesus must really be present in the Eucharist» otherwise, since the Catholic liturgy was regularly so dreadfully and mechanically done, no one would keep coming.

Even if one limits one's attention to the period since World War II, one confronts a whole library of books and articles devoted to the discussion between West and East, including the output of numerous conferences, colloquia, official and unofficial commissions (such as those of the Vatican and the World Council of Churches).

It was cataloged as being in the Vatican Library since 1475.

There is, as usual with Dulles, a deceptive simplicity of presentation, but a careful reading reveals that these brief lectures comprehend with great subtlety the many, complex, and sometimes rancorous debates about the meaning of priesthood since the Second Vatican Council.

Zöller is especially strong in his discussion of the period since the Second Vatican Council, which some thought called for revolution in both Church and society.