Ignoring Catholic laity not what church founders intended A drastic reform of papal elections is necessary for a return to the inherent democracy of the church.Andrew Greeley
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Literate …: But surely, Papa carissime, St Christine Mohrmann, the great Dutch Latinist and Doctrix of the Church, had just demonstrated that Liturgical Latin was an exquisite deeply Christian form of Latin expressly crafted to convey in all its transcendent beauty the Catholic Faith? Papa: I...
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Eastern Orthodox...
So a synod in the church is a church meeting, usually of bishops, but it can also be a diocesan synod where you have bishops and other clergy and laity involved. The synod of bishops is an advisory body, a selection of the world’s bishops, not all of them. An ecumenical council wou...
properly conducted at the local level, there should be many women already engaged in the vetting. As I indicated earlier, the diocesan and national phases of the process envision representative input from all of Christ’s faithful – clergy, religious and laity. Let’s make...
At the beginning of the New Year, 2013, a law is being proposed in the General Assembly to change the legal definition of marriage in Illinois to accommodate those of the same sex who wish to “marry” one another. In this discussion, the Church will be portrayed as “anti-gay,” which...
Clergy,a body of ordained ministers in a Christian church. In the Roman Catholic Church and in the Church of England, the term includes the orders of bishop, priest, and deacon. What do clergy do for the faithful? As for clergy, their job is toguide, nurture, and guard the laity— th...
The participation of the lay faithful in ad gentes missions is connected with a new look at the laity, largely developed by the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar teaching of the Magisterium of the Church. They recognized and ... Lipiński, Dawid 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 When bisho...
Though thereis no official canonical prohibitionregarding the use of tobacco, the more traditional among the Eastern Orthodox Churches forbid their clergy or monastics to smoke, and the laity are strongly encouraged to give up this habit, if they are subject to it. ...