The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.

Pope Benedict XVI authorized publication of this document, indicating that he considers it consonant with the Church's teaching, though it is not an official expression of that teaching.

During the reign of King Henry VIII of England, the official teaching was identical with the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine before and after Henry's break with Rome by declaring that the Pope had no jurisdiction in England.

Others were actively involved in the promotion of the Church's Social doctrine, an official Catholic answer to socio-economic distress that was meant to prevent the appeal of socialism and improve capitalism.

Τhe Roman Martyrology, the Catholic Church's official list of recognized saints, for February 14 gives only one Saint Valentine ; a martyr who died on the Via Flaminia.

The Saint Valentine is now celebrated on February 14 remains in the Catholic Church's official list of saints ( the Roman Martyrology ), but, in view of the scarcity of information about him, his commemoration was removed from the General Calendar for universal liturgical veneration, when this was revised in 1969.

The family wealth came from Church's father, a silversmith and watchmaker in Hartford, Connecticut ( Joseph subsequently also became an official and a director of The Aetna Life Insurance Company ).

The Church's official policy, however, is that Boy Scout troops not camp or hike on Sundays.

The Kirk of Scotland was in official use as the name of the Church of Scotland until the 17th century, and still today the term is frequently used in the press and everyday speech, though seldom in the Church's own literature.

She is the joint Patron of Missio, a charity which is the Catholic Church's official support organisation for overseas mission.

In 1823 the Presbyterian Church's first official ministry in Australia occurred in Hobart and the first Tasmanian bank, Bank of Van Diemen's Land, was established.

The Roman Catholic Church's current official teachings about papal privilege and power that are unacceptable to the Eastern Orthodox churches are the dogma of the pope's infallibility when speaking officially " from the chair of Peter ( ex cathedra Petri )" on matters of faith and morals to be held by the whole Church, so that such definitions are irreformable " of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church " ( ex sese et non ex consensu ecclesiae ) and have a binding character for all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's direct episcopal jurisdiction over all ( Catholic ) Christians in the world ; the pope's authority to appoint ( and so also to depose ) the bishops of all ( Catholic ) Christian churches except in the territory of a patriarchate ; and the affirmation that the legitimacy and authority of all ( Catholic ) Christian bishops in the world derive from their union with the Roman see and its bishop, the Supreme Pontiff, the unique Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ on earth.

In May 2007, it was reported that Guy Sebastian's song Receive the Power had been chosen as official anthem for the Roman Catholic Church's XXIII World Youth Day ( WYD08 ) to be held in Sydney in 2008.

In 1995, the Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ) issued a Notification on the writings of Rydén, the Notification was also printed in L ' Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper.

An official spokesman said that the article presented a personal opinion of the author and " did not reflect a change in the Catholic Church's position ".

The completion and official dedication was celebrated on June 27, 2002, on the anniversary of the death of Joseph Smith, the Church's founder.

In July 2008, Paulini collaborated with fellow singer Guy Sebastian on the song " Receive the Power ", which was chosen as the official anthem for the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day 2008.

Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD summarizes the Catholic Church's official position about the Brown Scapular thus:

The Internet site broadcasts on the Church's website have, since October 2009, been supplemented with the Church's own official radio station, Mormon Channel also broadcasting the four general sessions of General Conference live.

The Church's official site provides resources to assist in holding Family Home Evening, including:

The official website for the LDS Church's fundraising arm.

Nevertheless, during the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce it was CL rather than the official Catholic organizations that undertook the task of defending the Catholic Church's position to Italian society.

The Archbishop attacked the authors of the Greek elementary schools ' official state sixth grade history book, accusing them of attempting to " enslave Greek youth " and conceal the Church's role in defending Greek national identity during Ottoman occupation.

In an October 22, 1996, address to the Pontifical Academy of Science, Pope John Paul II updated the Church's position, recognizing that Evolution is " more than a hypothesis "-" In his encyclical Humani Generis, my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation ... Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis.

The passing of the Act saw the British Parliament recognise the Church's independence in spiritual matters, by giving legal recognition to the Articles Declaratory.

In addition, recent examples of IU South Bend faculty scholarship receiving international recognition include Fred Naffziger ’ s extensive commentary on the BBC, NBC, NPR, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and USA Today regarding the Catholic Church's bankruptcy crises and Ilan Levine ’ s cutting-edge research on astroparticle physics.

The Decree also declared that the matter of ordination was the giving to the ordinand of objects connected with their ministry, an idea now discarded and even then contradicted by the Catholic Church's recognition of the validity of ordinations in Churches that had no such ceremony in their rite of ordination.

Of particular note here is the Church's unequivocal recognition of the anamnesis as more than just a memorial but, rather, a re-presentation of Christ Jesus:

This enumeration, though incomplete, sufficiently draws the aim of the third group of censures ; they are directed against such propositions as would imperil religion in general, the Church's sanctity, unity of government and hierarchy, civil society, morals in general, or the virtue of religion, Christian meekness, and humility in particular.

The Bull begins with Christ's warning against false prophets, especially such as " secretly spread evil doctrines under the guise of piety and introduce ruinous sects under the image of sanctity "; then it proceeds to the condemnation of 101 propositions which are taken verbatim from the last edition of Quesnel's work such as: grace works with omnipotence and is irresistible ; without grace man can only commit sin ; Christ died for the elect only ; every love that is not supernatural is evil ; without supernatural love there can be no hope in God, no obedience to His law, no good work, no prayer, no merit, no religion ; the prayer of the sinner and his other good acts performed out of fear of punishment are only new sins ; the Church comprises only the just and the elect ; the reading of the Bible is binding on all ; sacramental absolution should be postponed till after satisfaction ; the chief pastors can exercise the Church's power of excommunication only with the consent, at least presumed, of the whole body of the Church ; unjust excommunication does not exclude the excommunicated from union with the Church.

Affirming that the " Church's first purpose is to be the sacrament of the inner union of men with God " ( CCC 775 ), John Paul II, in the Apostolic Letter At the Beginning of the New Millennium, placed sanctity, " this high standard of ordinary Christian living ," as the single most important priority of all pastoral activities in the universal Church " for all times.

A Catholic dogma, Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ( literally " no salvation outside the Church ") has sometimes been interpreted as denying salvation to non-Catholic Christians as well as non-Christians, though constant Catholic teaching has stressed the possibility of salvation for persons invincibly ignorant ( through no fault of their own ) of the Catholic Church's necessity and thus not culpable for lacking communion with the Church.

The Catholic Church's " model theologian ," St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: " It is requisite for the good of the human community that there should be persons who devote themselves to the life of contemplation.

It dealt with persons, systems and structures, the three co-ordinates of the modern promotion of justice and peace, now established as integral to the Church's mission.

Solid Rock Lutherans was a group of Lutheran clergy and laity within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) who opposed liberalizing that Church's position on the ordination of non-celibate gay and lesbian persons.

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

In the LDS Church's Sunday School and Church Educational System classes, the standard works are studied and taught in a four-year rotation:

Today, these miracles are almost always miraculous cures, as these are the easiest to establish based on the Catholic Church's requirements for a " miracle.

In computability theory, the Church – Turing thesis ( also known as the Turing-Church thesis, the Church – Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis ) is a combined hypothesis (" thesis ") about the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable ; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable.

" In 2000, the Church's General Assembly further affirmed that " human sexual orientations, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are a gift from God and part of the marvelous diversity of creation.

Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees the Catholic Church's doctrine ; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide ; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities ; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues.

The largest ethnic group among the Catholic priesthood of Britain remains Irish ( in the United States, the upper ranks of the Church's hierarchy are of predominantly Irish descent.

In some countries, Mormon and some phrases including the term are registered trademarks owned by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. ( a holding company for the LDS Church's intellectual property ).

However, the former professor and Inquisitor General was strongly opposed to any change in doctrine ( In Catholic doctrine, the Church's dogmata are infallible ) and demanded that Luther be punished for teaching heresy.

In Syro-Malabar Catholic Church's palm leaves are blessed during Palm Sunday ceremony and a Procession will take place holding the palms.

The Book of Confessions outlines the beliefs of the PC ( USA ) by declaring the creeds by which the Church's leaders are instructed and led.

There are several chains with mass-produced items of Southern cuisine on their menus, such as Cracker Barrel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Church's Chicken, Mrs. Winner's, Sonny's, Tudor's Biscuit World and Popeye's.

Every year, Virginia's letter and Church's response are read at the Yule Log ceremony at Church's alma mater, Columbia College of Columbia University.

The last two paragraphs of Church's editorial are read by actor Sam Elliot in the 1989 film Prancer, about Jessica Riggs, a little girl who believes the wounded reindeer she is nursing back to health belongs to Santa.

* A small group of Bohemian Brethren ( the " Hidden Seed ") from northern Moravia are allowed to settle in a new village, Herrnhut, on the Berthelsdorf estate of the pietist Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia ( Saxony ), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the Moravian Church's renewal.

Church's type theory is a variant of the lambda calculus in which expressions ( also called formulas or λ-terms ) are classified into types, and the types of expressions restrict the ways in which they can be combined.

The decisions of fourteen later councils that Catholics hold as dogmatic and two decrees promulgated by Popes ' exercising papal infallibility ( see Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary ) are considered as being a part of the Church's sacred body of doctrine.

The modern Church's views regarding torture have changed drastically which are generally associated with the Enlightenment.

Only the firstborn sons and their wives get to stay and reside in the community ( located in rural Nebraska )-the rest, like Tender, are sent out to work as humble servants, and are considered to be the Church's missionaries.