Sentences with phrase «women bishops for»

The women of the church agreed to this as long as they asked the woman bishop for permission, the same as they do currently for male bishops who they disagree with on this issue.

Not exact matches

«In all the positions the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken around the issue of abortion, they have not called for punishment of women who've had abortions,» said Don Clemmer, a spokesman for the group.

Shannon travels across the country speaking for some of Canada's largest corporations and universities including IBM Canada, The Canadian Women's Foundation, University of Toronto, Ryerson University and Bishops University to name a few.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

CNN should stop making this an issue, it is not about religion, this a war against women by Bishops who have always thought they know what is best for women.

Time for women to start speaking freely about the infamous «Bishops» and FOX NOT News, who keeps hammering on women and the President on this issue.

John Paul II 1988 [5] Pope Benedict XVI, address to the Administrators of Lazio Regions and Municipality of Rome, January 2010 [6] Letter to the Bishops of the world on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004 [7] Ibid.

All hopes for any provision within the CofE fade further and further away — the invention of women bishops means that any notion of sacramental assurance is now inevitably confused, and trying to find some sort of safe corner becomes surreal.

Great resources on this topic: http://www.wordonfire.org A Theology of the Body for Beginners — Christopher West Man and Woman He Created Them — A Theology of the Body — John Paul II Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992 or 1994 International Editions — Compiled by Catholic Bishops Worldwide with JP II United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

For the church that means transforming the caste system of male clerical hierarchy to partnership in ministry, and putting Galatians 3:28 — as well as the stance of the American Catholic bishops that «women should be in decision - making roles» — actually into practice.

But traditionalists said the ballot «has made it very difficult for those who in conscience can not accept the ministry for women priests and bishops.»

While our Bishops have created scandal after scandal in recent decades, these holy women have provided a core of integrity for our wounded Church.

But now, as an Anglican woman, not only could I enrol on any course for missionary, lay or ordained ministry, I could also set my sights on becoming a bishop.

«But if a poor man or woman comes... and especially they are stricken in years, and there be no place for such, do thou, O bishop, with all thy heart provide a place for them even if thou have to sit upon the ground.»

Provision for those who object to the ministry of women bishops has to be pastoral, not structural

«When I wrote to him last weekend to offer my prayers for his battle with prostate cancer, he replied with these words: «Wonderful that you over there will soon have women bishops.

«As the first woman bishop in the Church of England she will face many challenges as well as enjoying many opportunities to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ.

The Sunday Times reports that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has ordered the law to be re-written to allow woman to jump the queue of bishops waiting for a seat.

I am grateful for the many volunteers, those many Bishops, Young Women leaders, Counselors, Sunday School teachers, Primary leaders, Coaches and friends I have had throughout my life in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

No specific alternative bishop should be provided for those who are unable in conscience to accept the ministry of a woman bishop, but there should be a means to request and receive alternative sacramental provision

Welby, who has been a bishop for only a year, is considered an outspoken critic of the excesses of capitalism, a supporter of women bishops and an opponent of gay marriage.

that our bishops be urged to form a panel of highly qualified men and women for handling any future incidents of this sort (they should not only be well informed but well used to debating), and also for seeing in a more general way that the Catholic case is properly presented or defended in the media: one thinks for instance of men like Professors Peter Hodgson and John Haldane or Father Aidan Nichols); 3.

As Jesuit Tom Reese has pointed out, the bishops and cardinals appointed by John Paul II were chosen for their loyalty to Humanae Vitae, their opposition to the ordination of women, and the like, not for their competence as proven pastors, their administrative skills, or their breadth of vision.

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

The Guardian: Church of England prepares for vote on female bishops On the evening of 11 November 1992, Rosie Harper was a professional opera singer listening to the radio and absorbing the news that the Church of England, after years of struggle and indecision, had decided to allow women to become priests.

I can not for the life of me see how we end up with women bishops, but if that's what the CofE wants to do, that's down to the CofE.

He said: «We said women would be bishops and also that there was a place in the church for those that are opposed.

And these good ladies had items in the newspapers and on the internet, the Daily Telegraph announcing that: «Hilary Cotton, chair of Women And The Church (Watch), the group which led the campaign for female bishops, said the shift away from the traditional patriarchal language of the Book of Common Prayer in already at an «advanced» stage in some quarters».

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

Many theologians lobbied for elections of bishops by laity and, of course, pushed for the ordination of women priests.

«Although this is a new departure for England, it should be noted that Anglican women are already bishops in nine other countries.

In some countries, women bishops have now been serving for a quarter of a century.

Well done to @JustinWelby for his leadership on securing a yes vote for women bishops.

In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing mission.

For example, it is good that we should soon see women bishops.»

The plaque had been placed in the cathedral in 2008, during the civic celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of New France, and it read like this (my translation): «The Society for the 400th Anniversary of Québec, through its president, Mr. Jean Leclerc, pays homage to bishops, priests, and religious communities of men and women for their exceptional contributions to the history and the culture of the people of Québec.»

(Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004).

Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.

Newt Gingrich got a free pass this way from the bishop of Atlanta, for the Catholic woman he was sleeping with for 8 years behind his wife's back.

That being said I don't know why the bishops and others don't want to talk about the women who do need the birth control pills for some very serious issues.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

One Roman Catholic prelate, for instance, recently found himself on a platform with several Episcopal bishops, including a woman bishop.

How can the archbishop of York purport to make a woman a bishop, and give her a Bible as the sign of her episcopal authority, when in that very Bible there is no authority for a woman bishop?

There is growing pressure within the Church of England to create a situation in which the episcopal «team» in each diocese always included both sexes, with women accounting for half of all bishops at any given time.

18 Paul from whom this group stemmed was bishop of Samosata and viceroy under Queen Zenobia of Palmyra; he was condemned for heresy by two synods (264, 269); and one of the incidental charges brought against him was that he trained women to sing in the church choir.

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The British Humanist Association has reactivated Holy Redundant campaign urging the public to email their MPs against continuing reserved places for bishops in the House of Lords following the Church of England's 20th Nov 2012 vote to not to allow women to be bishops.

The House of Common was on course for a clash with the Church of England today, after MPs across the main parties savaged the decision not to allow women bishops.

The survivors persist in refusing to discriminate against Islam in their secular irony even though they continue, as always, to reserve their most provocative stuff for Christians (the most provocative cartoon in the post-attack issue exhibits divorced women who will now be able to take their communion their big tongues sticking out... we won't even translate the bishop's thought bubble).