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Diagram of authority structure

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Profile of a new. Openness to the Spirit. Tell us what kind of Pope. Diagram of Gospel Values. Diagram on Christian Living. Authority flow between reformed structures. Structural reform will affect all key bodies in the Church. The diagram displayed below illustrates how these bodies are related. Move the cursor over the diagram to bring up detail. This website is maintained by the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research. Visitors to this site in the recent past and online NOW (names of cities).

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The Role of the Pope

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Profile of a new. Openness to the Spirit. Tell us what kind of Pope. The Vatican Offices in Rome. The Roman Curia is essentially the Pope's international secretariate. It should also help to implement the decisions taken by the Central Synod of Bishops. As such it has an important function. See note 1 below. However, like any other civil service, its role should not be legislative but purely executive. Members of the Curia are administrators and secretaries. See note 2 below. The college of cardinals.

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Diagram of Gospel Values

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Profile of a new. Openness to the Spirit. Tell us what kind of Pope. Authority in the Church should incorporate Gospel values. Though Church leaders will need to incorporate practices from secular management, they need to exercise their authority in a manner compatible with the ideals of the Gospel. The diagram displayed illustrates some of these values. This website is maintained by the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research. Visitors to this site in the recent past and online NOW (names of cities).

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Honesty and truth

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Profile of a new. Openness to the Spirit. Tell us what kind of Pope. Radiating a Christ who liberates. Jesus Christ liberated us from sin, but also from law. This is Paul's explicit teaching. Christ liberated us from the law. Not just the law of Moses, but from any law. For freedom Christ has made us free. Stand firm therefore and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery! If the law of Christ were. However, the reality is that present-day Catholics live again under a tyranny of law and guilt. My own im...

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WOW Ottawa 2005

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WOMEN CAN BE PRIESTS. Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research. Women’s Ministries in the West. Body, Sex & Gender. Women called to the priesthood. Links to related sites. Scholars Pro and Con. Fathers of the Church. Books by John Wijngaards. The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church. No Women in Holy Orders? Women Deacons in the Early Church. AMRUTHA. What the Pope's man found out. Women’s Ministries in the West. The Body is Sacred. Ordaining women deacons (1). Ordaining women deacons (2). See ou...

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The Status of Women in Greek, Roman and Jewish Society by Elisabeth M Tetlow from 'Women and Ministry in the New Testament'

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Women’s Ministries in the West. Body, Sex & Gender. Women called to the priesthood. Links to related sites. Scholars Pro and Con. Fathers of the Church. Books by John Wijngaards. The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church. No Women in Holy Orders? Women Deacons in the Early Church. AMRUTHA. What the Pope's man found out. Women’s Ministries in the West. The Body is Sacred. Ordaining women deacons (1). Ordaining women deacons (2). Women who are called. Be one of us. Give us a donation. In the West, Egy...

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Gender-friendly changes in Catholic Church Law

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Gender-friendly changes in Catholic Church Law. It should be noted that church law in the Roman Catholic Church allows women to be appointed to many tasks and this should be exploited to the full:. One of the underlying reasons for asserting that women are not equal has been the assumption that women are inferior by nature. This was intimately tied to the traditional view of Natural Law which has caused so much distress and confusion regarding Catholic sexual ethics. To be to be entrusted with a parish b...

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On the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination. On the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination. UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION, Last Updated: 13-Oct-2005. Policy Measures (Article 2). Guarantee of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Article 3). Special Measures (Article 4). Sex Role Stereotyping and Prejudice (Article 5). Political and Public Life (Article 7). Employment (Article 11 ). Economic and Social Benefits (Article 13). Rural Women (Article 14). Marriage and Family Life (Article 16).

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How female genital mutilation is done

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How Female Genital Mutilation is done. Excerpted from Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change. London 1992, a report by the Minority Rights Group, 378/381 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DE. Female genital Mutilation takes three basic forms:. Often known as Sunna, involving cutting of the prepuce or hood of the clitoris, is the mildest and least harmful type;. Or cutting of all or part the clitoris and all or part of the labia minora;. Both the operation and its aftermath have grave implications for th...