Sentences with phrase «synod fathers»

Other voting participants (priests, bishops and cardinals, known as synod fathers) include 114 representatives of national bishops» conferences; 13 heads of Eastern Catholic Churches; 25 heads of Vatican Congregations and Councils.

The Synod Fathers asked the Holy Father to make known to the People of God «the rich fruits which emerged from the synodal sessions and the recommendations which result from our common endeavour».

Dramatic Move as Synod Fathers Set Out New Pastoral Care for Gays, Cohabiting Couples and Divorcees Christopher Lamb, The Tablet

And we pledge to accompany you, the Synod Fathers, and Pope Francis with our deepest prayers and gratitude, as you work for the good of families and the Church.

With these ideas in mind, we wish the Synod Fathers to know that:

Several synod fathers objected — vehemently — that the interim report wildly misrepresented their discussions.

This will require prayer, leadership and commitment throughout the Church, testing the resolve of the Synod Fathers and the particular churches, especially in Europe.

While the individual interventions of the synod fathers are not published, yesterday's relatio, which is merely a discussion document, was published immediately and, I am told, even broadcast live.

Dear Synod fathers: please know you have the prayers of the ordinary faithful as you speak in faithfulness to the Word, whose bond with his Church is unbreakable and who has never abandoned us, never given up on us.

So when the Synod Fathers gather in Rome to discuss marriage and the family, they are not dealing with human arrangements, but with participation in God's plan and God's love.

It dawned on us, as we tried to keep up with what was being discussed, that the synod fathers were in fact talking about our situation — Elizabeth's and mine.

Not exact matches

She was forging ahead, no matter what renewal of the synod arguments the Holy Father might be prompting.

Interestingly, the Holy Father used his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, to speak about the joy the gospel brings him and to provide a sort of programme that should guide the synod.

And that is why the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East is such a disappointment, including the Holy Father's bland homily at the end of the Synod on October 25.

In these cases, the synod says, «The church is called on to be the house of the Fathers, with doors always wide open... where there is a place for everyone, with all their problems.»

When you try to explain that the church fathers came up with what was «cannon» based on a number of synods / councils etc, and that not all Christians have the same cannonical books in their Bible, some Christians really spaz out.

perplexing pope In «Between Two Synods» (January), George Weigel thoroughly summarizes the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family and the issues at hand for the coming Ordinary Synod of 2015, except for one pressing question: Where is the Holy Father in all the controversy?

At first CBS welcomed such purchases, selling network time to the Lutheran Missouri Synod as well as to the fiery Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Furthermore, those who wish for «progressive» pastoral solutions will claim that the Holy Father's closing address to the Synod gives further support to their efforts: they will say he harshly criticized «conservatives» and even better was his approval of honoring the «spirit» of the law, over the law itself.

In addition to noting that the fact that the question was given such attention at the Synod and that those who were the strongest advocates were given special prominence by the Holy Father, they can reasonably claim that they have been given permission to proceed to use the «internal forum» for readmission.

Finally, the Letter urges that the Synod look to women as messengers of the truth of Catholic faith and commits the signatories to intensified prayer and service in support of the Holy Father and the bishops of the Church.

Extracts from last October's Synod on this subject can be found in our new Continuity and Development column; they are taken from the first 20 propositions presented to the Holy Father.

Here's something shocking that the bishops said about marriage — not the bishops in the Synod in Rome right now, but the Fathers of Vatican II.