Sentences with phrase «synod seems»

The first thing to say is that the Synod seems to be infected with an emotivist, subjectivist, and therapeutic tone.

Although the reform issue might be solved through the so - called «St Peter's option», the struggle looming in the forthcoming synod seems more complicated.

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It seems incongruous that the leader of a tiny ethnic group that lectures Rome on the merits of priestly marriage would draft the final statement of a Vatican Synod on the Middle East.

I think you are conflating various different councils and synods throughout the Church's history and trying to make it seem as if all of them were the same.

Just as those who dissented from Humanae Vitae were able to use a seeming openness to their point of view in the process that preceded the encyclical to legitimize their view, so too will dissenters find justification for their positions in the debates at the Synod.

Unfortunately, the synod's discussions reveal that a counterfeit sense of the conscience seems to inform the view of some ecclesial leaders, who feel they must support decisions made «in conscience,» even when those decisions contravene revealed truth.

Robert Royal's daily reports from Synod 2014, posted on The Catholic Thing (of which he is editor - in - chief), were required reading for anyone trying to understand the dynamics of that Synod amidst the reportorial and analytic fog: which fog, it now seems abundantly clear, was not always generated by the media.

Since at the 1977 General Synod a woman elder did well in the race for the vice-presidency (in the RCA the vice-president of General Synod is heir presumptive for the presidency the next year), it seems well within the realm of possibility that during the coming decade a woman (elder or minister) will be elected president of the General Synod, the highest office the church can bestow.

He told the BBC that the Nigerian economy is on the verge of collapse.Another interesting revelation is that this same respected man of God whose word is taken serious by many a Nigerian speaking during this year's 1st session of the twelfth synod at St Stephen church, Iju in Akure on a topic «stewardship», said the incumbent government seems confused.