Sentence examples for doctrinal leadership from inspiring English sources

He did, however, offer clear doctrinal leadership, to the chagrin of some and the delight of others.

After all, it was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's doctrinal expertise and leadership that played an important role in his elevation as the current pope.

Last week, the Vatican announced the conclusions of its doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which represents most of America's nuns.

The group emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.

(RNS) When the Vatican last month announced a doctrinal crackdown on the leadership organization representing most of the 57,000 nuns in the U.S., the sisters said they were "stunned" by the move.

The Vatican ordered a "doctrinal assessment" of the women's leadership conference in 2008 after years of concerns about its direction.

I could not fully flesh out all the brigade's doctrinal differences with the Army's leadership in Iraq at the time, and all the conflicts that resulted from those differences.

But she also argues that the absence of presidential leadership has allowed for doctrinal drift and paralysis as deep-seated disagreements remain within the administration over how the United States should respond to what is essentially a new threat: the use of germ or chemical weapons against the United States or its allies.

On Tuesday, Sister Pat Farrell and Sister Janet Mock, two of the leaders of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, met with Vatican doctrinal officials in Rome and the Seattle archbishop, J. Peter Sartain, who has been assigned to manage the conflict with the nuns in the United States, to discuss the "doctrinal assessment".

Romney, though, is the one who has vanished (is anyone looking to him for leadership on the cliff?) while the primaries — their doctrinal priorities, their excesses — are what remain of the Republican Party.

The Nun Justice Project, made up of several Catholic groups, began coordinating nationwide vigils for nuns after the Vatican reprimanded the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in April for "serious doctrinal problems" that included promoting "radical feminist themes".