Sentences with phrase «years as bishop»

In about thirty years as a bishop in Pontus, Gregory Thaumaturgos is said to have witnessed the accession to the Church of the vast majority in the territory covered by his see.

Although we are formally speaking of Benedict's initiatives as pope, it is probably best to discuss the theological body of work he produced from 1981 to 2013, rather than simply his last eight years as bishop of Rome....

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

Less than fifty years ago nearly the entire student body of CUA went on strike to protest the dismissal of Curran from his post as assistant professor of theology by the CUA Board of Trustees - composed entirely of American bishops.

Christians should burn their copies of the NT for the 2000 year old con job that has been perpetuated on them by popes, bishops, priests, ministers and evangelicals such as Osteen.

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient by an independent review.

For forty years, the American bishops have been constrained by the NCCB / USCCB ethos to speak as a committee.

Several years ago, I suggested to a leading U.S. Catholic bishop that the Campaign for Human Development be transformed into a campaign for inner - city schools, because, as Brinig and Garnett demonstrate, these schools are the Church's best anti-poverty and empowerment program — indeed, they may be America's best anti-poverty program.

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.

Francis said the meeting, which comes just a year after the Chilean bishops were last in Rome on a regular visit, would have as its objective «repairing scandal where possible and re-establishing justice».

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

John Hopkins (a bishop's son) wrote «We three kings» as a present for his nieces and nephews, and the same year a Boston Sunday school teacher came up with «Jingle bells» for its Thanksgiving service, just to keep the children happy.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

In that year, the bishops of East and West gathered at the Second Council of Nicaea: a meeting which, apart from its importance for other reasons, is remembered as the last occasion on which Christian faith, as a lived reality recognized throughout the then - known world, found expression in a universally representative gathering.

Many of these ideas were episcopally appropriated in the documents of the conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín in 1968, three years before Gutiérrez's landmark book appeared — especially those on «Justice» and «Peace,» in the composition of which Gutiérrez played a part as one of the official periti at the conference.

The bishop, who has served in the post in New Hampshire since early 2004, said he is energized about his next two years of ministry and support of clergy and congregations as the process of naming his successor moves forward.

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»].

Over the years complaints to the Hierarchy by parents have been ignored, and if our schools are to survive as Catholic rather than secular the Bishops have to act now as Mr Hester recommends.

Joseph Ratzinger, a bishop recognized as one of the most intelligent and influential theologians of the age, has remained silent on a question that brings together several of the most vexing theological questions of recent years.

That the American bishops in the last thirty years have generally offered few creative contributions to economic issues, as William McGurn observes («The Preacher and the Economist,» April), is true.

After 25 years in seminary education, Clymer is particularly well equipped to handle his present responsibilities as chairman of the committee which functions as a liaison between the church's Council of Bishops and the denomination's ten seminaries.

(Not incidentally, as an auxiliary bishop in Boston he many years ago raised the alarm about priestly sex abuse in the archdiocese.

«In the handful of instances during the John Paul years in which local bishops tried to formally expel abusers from the priesthood, in a process known as laicization, the Vatican often urged caution — not to excuse abuse, but to defend the priesthood.».

He was a convert to Christianity and governed as bishop in Antioch for many years, appearing voluntarily before the Emperor Trajan in Antioch in 107AD, where he boldly professed his Christianity.

Last year his nomination as Bishop of Llandaff was blocked by Welsh bishops.

It was published three years before his death; the only copy of a subsequent manuscript was burned by a bishop of the Church of England as being too hot for the faithful to handle.

It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the Roman Catholic clergy actively seek to be ordained a bishop, and even regard their path towards this office as an ecclesiastical «career.»

The original New Testament as formulated by a group of «Bishops» seeking recognition as the state religion of Rome, they were housed, fed and cared for by Constantine for several years while they argued about which texts to include.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

Over the years I have discussed this privately with bishops, always to find that the answers are, as it is inevitably said, complex.

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VObishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOas they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOBISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOAS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOBISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.

We could do worse than begin with the call issued by the American bishops a few years ago to their people, in which they announced the aim of their evangelisation initiative as «to let every American know they are freely invited to join us in the fullness of Catholic faith».

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient...

I served as an official in the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops for ten years.

«We know from what at least two diocesan bishops have said that in less than ten years we will see a threat to the presence of church in communities across rural England and some urban areas as well.

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

For Christians this was evident several years ago when the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States condemned even the possession of nuclear weapons as a violation of the just war ethic.

In the same year, Spanish bishops appealed to Cyprian from a decision of Stephen I and a Gaelic Bishop sought his help to secure from Stephen a judgement against Marcion, who as bishop, had declared himself as a Novationist.

From snch houses no visitor was ever allowed to take his departure without carrying with him a supply of the latestmade aji: no traveller went to the capital or any of the coast towns hut he carried with him some of this excellent pepper as a present to the archbishop or bishop of the diocese, the ladies of Santa Rosa, or the good Fathers who once a year went long journeys to baptise the children, marry their parents, and otherwise maintain the influence and authority of the Church in the remote parts of the earth.

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

The Catholic Bishops» Conference of Nigeria has said that contrary to the promise made by President Muhammadu Buhari to belong to everybody while being sworn in as the President in 2015, he has failed to demonstrate the statement in governance in the last two years.

About Site - David T. Roller served for 17 years as a Free Methodist missionary in Mexico, then for 10 years as Latin America Area Director for Free Methodist World Missions and in July of 2007 was elected a bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America.

Ransome points to well - known public, diverse, all - girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.

Lyons, who also served three years as the parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish, will remain a priest and attend to the daily operations of the diocese until a bishop is appointed, a press release from the diocesan offices said Saturday.

About Blog David T. Roller served for 17 years as a Free Methodist missionary in Mexico, then for 10 years as Latin America Area Director for Free Methodist World Missions and in July of 2007 was elected a bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America.

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