Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
The Catholic Church regards Good Friday and Holy Saturday as the Paschal fast, in accordance with Article 110 of Sacrosanctum Concilium. [58] In the Latin Church , a fast day is understood as having only one full meal and two collations (a smaller repast, the two of which together do not equal the one full meal) [ 59 ] [ 60 ] – although this ...
The Church of England outlines this dual purpose of Good Friday: “There can be no adequate way of recalling the being dead of the Son of God, other than silence and desolation,” the Church says.
The new Good Friday liturgy modified the Good Friday prayer for the Jews in two ways. Pius had already, in 1949, made a public declaration that the Latin word "perfidus", which is applied to the Jewish people in this prayer, means "unbelieving", not "perfidious" or "treacherous". [ 25 ]
(Reuters) - Pope Francis presided at a Good Friday service where he heard the Vatican's official preacher accuse the international community of indifference to the persecution of Christians, a day ...
We turned to a Catholic priest for the answer: “Good Friday is the day Christians commemorate the suffering and execution of Jesus by the Roman-occupying empire in Jerusalem,” says Bruce ...
1) The Pope is not head of the Christian Church and superior to all other bishops by divine right (de iure divino). 2) The Pope and bishops do not hold civil authority by divine right. 3) The claim of the Bull Unam sanctam (1302) that obedience to the Pope is necessary for salvation is invalid since it contradicts the doctrine of justification ...
In 1860 Henry Edward Manning, who later became Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and a Cardinal, wrote, "That vast chimera at which the English people especially stand in awe, the deposing power of the Pope, what was it but that supreme arbitration whereby the highest power in the world, the Vicar of the Incarnate Son of God, anointed to ...