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I mean, even here, yesterday I was walking across the street, and they showed three bishops were executed 500 years ago, right across the street from here.
The Bishop was wearing Roman vestments (and for the record not even Orthodox bishops wear their vestments unless they're saying the liturgy, especially if they live in a monastery).
Nazarin is some kind of saint,he wants to live in life exactly how Christ taught man to do.But it's too late:now the Catholic Church is between the hands of a wealthy bourgeoisie,the bishops live in luxury and don't give a damn about the poor and the sick.That's why our hero can't follow the way his hierarchy asks him to follow.So he divests himself of everything,and on his way to purity,he's joined by some kind of Mary Magdelene and a woman who's attracted by him sexually (the scene between this girl and her fiancé is telling).In Spain (it was the late fifties),they thought Nazarin was a Christian movie!Knowing Luis Bunuel,it was downright incongruous:all his work is anticlerical to a fault.Comparing Nazarin and his "holy women" to Jesus is a nonsense.On Nazarin's way,only brambles and couch grass grow.His attempt at helping working men on the road is a failure,he's chased out as a strike-breaker.All his words amount to nothing.At the end of the journey,he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman(Bunuelian sexual symbol).
The only thing i caught in this movie that was really wrong was at the end when Q is holding bishop trying to prevent him from falling...If you look very closely you'll see bishops arms is white..lol.
For more than half of the film, everybody addresses the king as 'Your Grace', whereas for the whole of English history, no such form of address was ever used for a king, but was only used for bishops, dukes, and duchesses.
I Had seen the great Rupert on a religious channel that has been showing all the great Christmas movies like scrooge,and the bishops wife.and
Pope John Paul II declared his support for the basic science of evolution, and Roman Catholic bishops are strongly in favor of limiting human-induced climate change, based on the scientific evidence.
Third, the reformed police service itself has been widely seen as the protector of the whole community, and young Catholics have been encouraged to join it by their priests and bishops.
The Vatican II reforms, for example, emerged not from a populist groundswell, but from the preferences of progressive theologians and bishops.
After the political rebellion and lootings of this past February, Bolivia's Catholic bishops made real and consistent efforts to create a harmonious space for dialogue.
When Roman Catholic bishops called earlier this month for an end to fossil-fuel use, their intervention was criticized for being out of touch with economic realities.
But the bishops’ economics is impeccable.
Sadly, the bishops have less influence over divine action than over economics: Whatever deity might have put fossil fuels on earth has shown no willingness to take them back.
These pressures would not have been as damaging had they not met with approval in parts of Racan's ruling coalition, especially from Drazen Budisa's Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), and also among influential Catholic bishops.
Although it established the requirement of common consent to taxation, that consent was to be obtained from an assembly of earls, barons, bishops, and abbots – in the age of chivalry, not even knights were invited to participate.
The Cuban Conference of Bishops followed by demanding clemency for the prisoners.
Political disputes and political divisions between bishops and priests are blamed as one source of the rot in Poland, but I doubt their importance.
Witness the anti-abortion debate in America, the global debate about priestly celibacy or the role of women in the Church, or the ongoing slanging match between the Cardinal of Vienna and one of his subordinate bishops.
In Poland, the problem is that a majority of bishops, and perhaps others elsewhere around the world, see reason and philosophy as intellectual luxuries.
Many Polish bishops almost openly declare to their flock: you are supposed to listen, not think or argue.
Poland's bishops, however, are against anything that may lead to doubt, for which the bishops themselves seem to believe they lack convincing answers.
For priests and bishops reared on tradition and conformity, these notions appear dangerous.
After several grave political errors, when the Church got involved in politics in counterproductive ways (the return to power of the postcommunists in 1994 was viewed by many as a direct rebuke to Church highhandedness), bishops now mostly avoid direct political involvement.
Poland's bishops refuse to embrace democracy for different reasons.
Catholicism in its heyday combined a fairly decentralized administration, under the sway of stand-alone bishops, with a uniform set of beliefs.
One reason why it used to take roughly 13 years for a Jesuit to reach ordination was the long indoctrination in orthodoxy required for priests who, unlike “regular clergy” (whose training lasted half that time), would be mobile and beyond the direct control of bishops.
Meanwhile, in the United States, Catholic bishops have claimed that President Barack Obama is violating their religious freedom by requiring all big employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, to offer their employees health insurance that covers contraception.
Poland's Catholic bishops, however, accepted the assignment given to them by the Pope and have repeatedly stressed that one of the Church's goals in a united Europe is to foster a revival of Christianity.
Zapatero eventually felt it necessary to tell a Vatican envoy that Spanish bishops should stop meddling in the elections (which he won).
One of the only iron laws governing human societies is that when women are both educated and free to work for money, they choose to have fewer children, whatever their bishops and imams may say.