The pope, in addition to being the Bishop of Rome and spiritual head of the Catholic Church, is also the Patriarch of the Latin Rite.

In addition, some studies on the effectiveness of prayer on recovering heart attack patients have shown a small benefit to prayer or other spiritual treatment in recovery.

However, it is important to note that the patients in these studies received some form of spiritual healing ( i. e. not Christian Science ' treatment ') in addition to, not instead of, conventional medical care.

Some scholars feel that in addition to its spiritual components, portions of the text merely reflect the human authors ' beliefs and feelings about God at the time of its writing, and their cultural sensibilities.

In addition, the term is used in a broader sense to cover a world-view on a wide variety of topics, including chemical evolution as an alternative term for abiogenesis or for nucleosynthesis of chemical elements, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar evolution, spiritual evolution, technological evolution and universal evolution, which seeks to explain every aspect of the world in which we live.

By 1962 the morale of the Foreign Legion was at an all-time low ; it had lost its traditional and spiritual home ( Algeria ), elite units had been disbanded, and in addition, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape prosecution.

In addition to the effect on his spiritual growth, this connection was to have a major effect in introducing Ueshiba to various elite political circles as a martial artist.

The two are similar in many respects, with Mary Magdalene often being viewed as a Christian antecedent of the latter, while Tahirih in her own right could be described as the spiritual return of the Magdalene ; especially given their common, shared attributes of " knowledge, steadfastness, courage, virtue and will power ", in addition to their importance within the religious movements of Christianity and the Bahá ' í Faith as female leaders.

The Papacy in the Late Middle Ages played a major temporal role in addition to its spiritual role.

In addition to the added readings from Scripture, spiritual books by the Church Fathers are recommended during the Fast.

In addition to five exercises, in 2001 another meditation activity was introduced called " sending righteous thoughts ," which is intended to mitigate persecution on the spiritual plane.

In addition to being the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative superior of dioceses and archdioceses serving millions of Greek, Ukrainian, Rusyn and Albanian believers in North and South America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea, Southeast Asia and parts of modern Greece which, for historical reasons, do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Church of Greece.

In addition, about a quarter of net monastic wealth on average consisted of " spiritual " income arising from the appropriation of parish tithes where the religious house held the advowson of a benefice with the legal obligation to maintain the cure of souls in the parish, either by endowing a vicar or by appointing a stipendiary priest.

In addition, he wrote on the Warm and the Cold, on Water, Fire, the Sea, on Coagulation and Melting, on various phenomena of organic and spiritual life, and on the Soul and Sensuous Perception.

In addition, Olokun initiation can be undertaken by way of Benin spiritual lineages.

The results is that marabouts are expected to provide certain material benefits to their follower in addition to the spiritual ones.

In addition, the Laibon, known as Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom by Western Kindred, are not so much a sect as a cultural group bound together loosely by a powerful spiritual bond to the land and the people of Africa.

In addition to the major traditions, there are many more recent and often more spiritual schools that are active outside Japan.

Faeries represent the first spiritual movement to be both " gay centered and gay engendered ", where gayness is central to the idea, rather than in addition to, or incidental to a pre-existing spiritual tradition.

In addition to typical formal education, ISKCON also offers specialized religious / spiritual instructional programs in scriptural texts, standardized by the ISKCON Ministry for Educational Development and the GBC committee on Vaisnava Training & Education, categorized by level and difficulty ; in India, they are primarily provided by the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training and the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education.

In addition to regular formal education, a number of religious institutions have instituted regular informal religious / spiritual education programs for children and adults.

In addition to these days, the Buddhist sabbath days ( ວ ັ ນພຣະ, ว ั นพระ, ), during the phases of the moon, and temple fairs are also regular times to visit the temples, pray, ask advice of the monks for spiritual concerns, and donate food, money, or help out with temple chores, known in Lao as tambun ( ທຳບ ຸ ນ, ทำบ ุ ญ, ).

In addition, a member can vote on spiritual matters at congregational meetings — usually whether to issue a " call " to a new minister to join the congregation.

The Bible symbolizes the unique quality of Christian education which includes moral and spiritual training in addition to academic education.

Dharma refers not only to the sayings of the Buddha, but also to the later traditions of interpretation and addition that the various schools of Buddhism have developed to help explain and to expand upon the Buddha's teachings.

Christian feminists often draw on the teachings of other religions and ideologies in addition to biblical evidence.

In addition, judicial decisions and teachings may be applied as " subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law " ( cf.

As an evangelical church, it follows the Bible's teachings that God sanctified the seventh-day Sabbath, and the new moons in addition to it.

In addition to the two main teachings of chanting and the Gohonzon, Nichiren Buddhism expounds the doctrine of the Ten Worlds of life, The Ten Factors of existence, the principle of The Three Thousand Realms in a single moment of life and the teachings of The Three Proofs for verification of the validity of teachings.

In addition to bridging this class gap, Hasidic teachings sought to reintroduce joy in the performance of the commandments and in prayer through the popularisation of Jewish mysticism ( this joy had been suppressed in the intense intellectual study of the Talmud ).

In addition to the Mishnah, other tannaitic teachings were current at about the same time or shortly thereafter.

He thus received the combined Kadam and Sakya teachings of the Sutrayana through his main Sakya teacher, Palden Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen, in addition to the corpus of both old and new translation tantras.

In addition to making a variety of traditional contemplative practices available to the community, he also incorporated the many already-existing special interests of his students, evolving specialized teachings on how to apply a meditative approach to these various disciplines.

Sufi orders trace their origins ultimately to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have instructed his successor in mystical teachings and practices in addition to the Qur ' an or hidden within the Qur ' an.

In addition, members of the Anointed Quorum, a highly select leadership group in the early church that was privy to Smith's teachings, also acknowledged the existence of a Heavenly Mother.

In addition, the court was interested in reforming Buddhism by patronizing serious monks without political aspirations and by supporting those teachings that would bridge the traditional rivalry between the Hosso ( Yogacara ) and Sanron ( Madhyamika ) schools.

In addition to Mādhyamaka, Jizang also wrote favorably about the Tathāgatagarbha teachings.

In addition, there is a sub-faction of Yuan-ti, the Vanguard of Sertrous ( outlined in Elder Evils ), who follow the teachings of the ancient obyrinth Sertrous, sometimes known as the first heretic, who wish to assist him in reconquering his layer of the Abyss.

Most of these ascetics, in addition to their devotion to shugendō, studied the teachings of the Tendai sect of Buddhism, or the Shingon sect, established by Kōbō Daishi in the 8th century.

In addition, there is a Web-based ministry in New York State focusing on the teachings and legacy of Emmet Fox, a Divine Science minister who preached at the First Church of Divine Science in New York City.

His dharma teachings can be viewed live at http :// www. tbsseattle. org / english / content / view / 71 / 76 / lang, en /, in addition some of his past recorded teachings can be found at http :// vimeo. com / user3777033 / videos / sort: date.

In addition, the organization publishes a newsletter ; prepares position papers on homosexuality, fatherhood, gay-straight relationships, and Christian teachings for people grappling with these issues ; and publicizes and promotes Gamofite activities.

In addition, although the Jewish community appreciated John Paul II's 1994 statement, We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, which offered a mea culpa for the role of Christians in the Holocaust, some Jewish groups felt that the statement was insufficient, as it focused on individual members of the Church who helped the Nazis, portraying them as acting against the teachings of the Church.

In addition to those books revered by all Hasidim, the most important book to the Alexander dynasty is Yismach Yisroel ( Rejoice O ' Israel ), by the second Aleksander Rebbe and includes the teachings of the first Aleksander Rebbe, and also the Tiferes Shmuel by the third Aleksander Rebbe, and the Sefer Akeidas Yitzchok by the fourth rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Mendel Danziger.

In addition to texts from the Pali Canon, ATI includes a large collection of published works from the Buddhist Publication Society, as well as a variety of teachings that were translated from Thai by the Western-born Thanissaro Bhikkhu, abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery near San Diego, California.