The relations and collaboration between the
Roman Catholic Church and the WCC after Vatican II can be rightly described as a journey of confidence-building.
There was a
Roman Catholic church in our neighborhood, of course, and it was within a few blocks of our home.
School officials and the student senate decided to rescind the group's charter because they believed the group wanted "to promote the lifestyle of GLBT people in conflict with the standards and values of the college" and the
Roman Catholic Church.
A publicly funded charter high school will open on the grounds of a
Roman Catholic church in Minneapolis next year, despite concerns about church-state separation.
It was a time when the
Roman Catholic Church was working on a new Roman Missal and when most mainline churches in the English-speaking world were preparing new liturgical books.
In her speeches and her book Manning takes on what she calls the "dissident minority" in the
Roman Catholic Church, by which she means Pope John Paul II and his myrmidons, the majority of cardinals and bishops who have turned their backs on the modest reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Ordaining Ramerman was Bishop Peter Hickman of the Old Catholic church, which claims a common root with the
Roman Catholic church. The Old Catholic church derives from the 1870s, when the First Vatican Council defined the doctrine of papal infallibility.
Flumerfelt said he had taken a break from his Anglican ministry to address family issues and during that time, had received a lot of support from the
Roman Catholic church and felt a calling.
Though situated just across the Tiber from the ancient heart of Rome (and attracting no small part of the tourist trade to both Italy and Rome) Vatican City is not only the seat of government for the
Roman Catholic Church but also functions as the world's smallest independent state.
Gay and lesbian worshippers are welcome in the
Roman Catholic Church as long as they are true to its moral teachings.
"If another denomination of Christianity offered its members Communion, they could only use a Eucharist and wine approved by the
Roman Catholic Church; otherwise, the Communion was illegitimate and perpetrated a fraud," they wrote in court briefs.