Sentences with phrase «time as bishop»

During his time as bishop, he co-chaired an inquiry into foodbanks.

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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.

Otis Charles - described by the Times as «the only openly gay Episcopal bishop,» thereby implying that others are in the closet — says, «The new phenomenon is that we're no longer willing to remain silent and invisible.

Romney, as a bishop, could NEVER stray from that, which (if you have ever taken the time to read or learn anything at all about Mormons) means he would favor LDS interests above the rest of us.

At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as deists as well as Christians.

The New York Times noted that the bishops have an «idea» that religious Americans are «the victims of government - backed persecution», while painting their decision to eliminate adoption services as slamming the door in the face of the loving members of the gay community.

As with the poor of Israel, those who used the court of the bishop and attended his church also expected to call upon him, in time of need, for justice and protection,» Brown writes.

As for «rejecting», time for those who haven't already done so to reject the bishops and their crazy religious myth that takes money for nothing, never delivers what it promises, and pays for their fancy dresses and lazy lifestyle.

At the time of my ordination discussions to unite the Church of England and the Methodist Church were well advanced — even so, as I was marrying a Methodist, the diocesan bishop refused permission for us to have Communion at our wedding service.

If at times the descriptions of Foyer communities conjured up images of kaftan communes of the 1960s, these were held at bay by repeated assertions of Marthe's adherence at all times to the Church's Magisterium, of each Foyer opening only at the invitation of the local bishop and of snippets of Marthe's such as «Mass is not an obligation... it is a necessity!»

Gregory of Nyssa, (c.330 - c395), who was bishop of Nyssa, but exiled for a time by the Arian party» used this analogy: «We may be confronted by many who individually share in human nature, such as Peter, James and John, yet the «man» in them is one.»

The bishop in question this time is Richard Holloway of Edinburgh, the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who gave an interview averring that there's nothing wrong with sodomy and sadomasochism so long as it is consensual.

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

The bishop of Edessa at that time, Rabbula was in favour of the Diophysite movement at first, but by AD 352 he changed his position and turned against his friends in the school of Edessa as well as the Antiochean theologians as a whole.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

As the U.S. bishops, including the archbishop of Denver, have said many times, both major political parties have many good Catholics as members, both have important strengths, and neither fully represents a Catholic approach to public policAs the U.S. bishops, including the archbishop of Denver, have said many times, both major political parties have many good Catholics as members, both have important strengths, and neither fully represents a Catholic approach to public policas members, both have important strengths, and neither fully represents a Catholic approach to public policy.

The bright and personable priest from Merseyside, who as General Secretary ruled the roost at the Bishops» Conference headquarters at Eccleston Square for eight years from the mid-1980s, was seen by many Catholics at the time as a breath of fresh air [Note: for «many Catholics» read «The Tablet»].

No one can deny that many, many bishops are not as orthodox concerning the Faith as the laity and world needs at this time.

And yet bishop - theologians like Danneels and Kasper, as well as all the popes of these times, have insisted on the need to emphasise an overarching continuity.

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs who lived in the forest in a little round hut... you can order the complete text from the NOPP, the National Office for Pedophile Protection, (also known as the USCCB, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

In a statement on the diocese of Arundel and Brighton website, where Cardinal Murphy - O'Connor used to be bishop, Cardinal Nichols who is the current Archbishop of Westminster said: «These loving prayers are a source of great strength and comfort as he calmly ponders on all that lies ahead, all in God's good time.

It is equally easy and false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just simply, the thoughts of God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.

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.

As a result, however, I have decided to offer my resignation as bishop with immediate effect and will now take some time to consider my futurAs a result, however, I have decided to offer my resignation as bishop with immediate effect and will now take some time to consider my futuras bishop with immediate effect and will now take some time to consider my future.

A bishop (long dead) who fancied himself as something of a historian used to say that it was the religious orders which were the first to capitulate at the time of the Henrician Reformation in England, the Carthusian martyrs being the outstanding exception which proved the rule.

As time went on, in the Latin Church, the Greek word for elder was replaced by the Latin word for priest, and the Greek word for bishop was replaced with the Latin «Popa».

If the bishops and other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by contradiction, nuance or complexity.

Luther was becoming a substitute guardian and bishop: «If that man's case is as he described it, my Nicholas, then I think he may lawfully keep his wife, since the former husband deserted her such a long time ago... The visitation has begun.

On 17 July the anxiety about the Council is mounting, as he writes to Amsdorf: «From Trent comes news that twenty - three bishops and three cardinals are present... May they have a bad time, as the wrath of God moves them.»

There is, however, no sign as yet of the reform that many in this country (and elsewhere) are hoping for: as George Weigel puts it in his Los Angeles Times article, it is «the question of the appointment of bishops — and the volatile but unavoidable question of whether the church ought not devise criteria and processes for removing bishops who are manifestly incapable of leadership.

Pell testified to the inquiry in a video link from the Vatican in 2016 about his time as a priest and bishop in Australia.

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

Besides the magisterial authority and the supervision of catechetical instruction, the bishop as chief pastor had at this time among his major duties the protracted ritual of baptism.

The city episcopate is well on the way to monopolizing the rite of the imposition: of hands in ordination, a practice once associated with both pagan teachers and Jewish elders and rabbis and by now projected into apostolic times as the unique function of the apostles qua bishops.

MARIE BISHOP: Well with my 4 year old he was actually in the NICU he was a preemie, I had to pump for him for the first month and I kind of figured it out when the nurses were a are little shocked by me bringing in like 12 ounces at a time for each pumping and I just ended up encouraging my oversupplies so I could donate and then this time I ended up having it, I just started pumping it as soon as my milk came in and it squirts everywhere and it's just a ton

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendmenAs Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendmenas the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

One of the most interesting aspect of the debate, however, was in the arguments in favour of the Baroness» request by the Bishop of Blackburn, who sits in the upper house ex officio as one of the Lords Spiritual (one of the twenty six senior bishops in the Church of England), and Baron Cormack, a long - time member of the joint Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament, which includes members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and is responsible for reviewing internal legislation of the Church of England (Church Measures).

Sunder: religious organizations, acting as employers, have had certain exemptions from anti-discrimination law for some time, and I think I'm right in saying that the Anglican bishops acted to secure some version of these in the recent debates over the Equality Bill...?

He told the Committee that the argument of tradition, that we should have Bishops because we have had them for a long time and it's best to leave things as they are, was irrelevant and insubstantial.

Over the last few days the 26 bishops who sit in the House of Lords must have been astounded to receive over 50,000 letters telling them their time as legislators is up.

22 y.o. newly married, masturbated to het porn 4 times in past year, dx as sex addict by partner, bishop and self.