Sentences with phrase «world synod»

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Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

As bishops» conferences from all over the world are electing their representatives for this year's synod, it becomes clearer that the conservative line will be upheld by a wide majority of the participants.

Assemblies and synods, on the other hand, are always asking what word they need to speak to the churches and to the world — as though there is some single, coherent message for everyone.

I have in mind a host of declarations by popes, by the World Council of Churches, by our synods.

(It was one of the great curiosities of my childhood that so few people outside of my family and congregation understood the centrality of the fate of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod to world - historical development.)

Conscious of his responsibilities to the Church throughout the world, he made extensive use of the episcopal conferences mandated by Vatican II and of the Synod of Bishops which he himself had established during the Council.

Through encyclicals and the statements of recent synods, human rights have become the centerpiece of Roman Catholic social teachings all over the world.

And I hope that the Synod summons the courage and humility to confess that the Church's own failures to speak words of persuasive truth to the cultural tsunami of the sexual revolution are a significant factor in the crisis of marriage and the family around the world today.

The bishops asked him to speak to their Spring General Assembly, held in New Orleans June 10 - 13, as part of a broader effort to prepare for the upcoming Synod on the Family, which takes place this fall in Rome, and the World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Philadelphia in 2015.

What will Synod 2015 say to the world that will make the world think again about marriage and the family, before these two essential building - blocks of civilization are further dismantled and traduced?

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

A synod brings a sampling of the world's bishops together to discuss a particular theme, in this case evangelizing those who have drifted away from the Catholic faith, especially in the Western world.

I remember the first week of the synod when voices of bishops from around the Western world were raised: «Europe needs to be evangelized!»

And so whoever becomes pope, there is a good chance he influenced the synod and the church hierarchy's current thinking about itself and the world.

This synod - the last under Benedict - took a long and in - depth look at how the church can effectively present the person of Jesus to the contemporary world.

Like the general congregations, the synod sessions are always closed to the public and the media for practical reasons: Bishops speak openly about political and religious persecution in parts of the world, for example.

In introducing the report, William Lazareth acknowledged the help received from the reports of the Bangkok Conference on Salvation Today, of the Lausanne Congress on the evangelization of the world, and of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on evangelization in the modern world.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

Finally, in October 1974 the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops met in Rome to consider, «Evangelization in the Modern World».

Over the next twenty - four hours, it precipitated a backlash and 180 - degree turn that is still ricocheting around the world as we face another Synod in just a few days.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutriWorld councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutriworld peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

In England the Christian era was adopted at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it did not become general in Europe until the eleventh century, and in the Greek world not until the fifteenth.

For example, we were invited to send a representative as auditor to the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1994 dealing with «The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and the World.»

The document, based on two Synods on the issue, was eagerly awaited by the world's 1.3 bn Roman Catholics.