Sentence examples for global church from inspiring English sources

They want the Vatican hierarchy to work more efficiently to better serve a global church.

This will please neither liberals nor conservatives but I don't see how else a global church can be held together.

Perhaps two of the movements in which he held honorary office until his death best sum up his aspiration for the global Church.

Reform of the global church depends on much more than just him, Chirri continues, and also on the degree of internal obstacles and dissent he faces.

The bishops' statement said that they heard from many members that the rules had language that was "contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful and inadequate" for a diverse and global church.

THE election of the first pope from Latin America last week was greeted with excitement, a sign of change and tangible evidence that the global church had become a reality.

But he kept to the line that the Holy See was distinct from the global Catholic church and had little jurisdiction in countries beyond the Vatican city state.

In his final briefing yesterday to reporters before the Pope touches down, Archbishop Nichols admitted that the global Catholic Church should have done better in its handling of clerical abuse.

Within both Europe and the United States (again, sorry for the stereotype), the latter mindset seems more prevalent in southern regions than northern ones.A similar cultural fault-line apparently runs through the global Catholic church, and it has affected the response to child abuse allegations.

The global Anglican church is deeply split on the issue and Welby is trying to prevent the schism from spreading to the UK, where some conservative evangelical congregations are threatening to leave the Church of England if it compromises its opposition to gay sex by blessing civil partnerships.

Initial, breathless media reports that suggested the pope was on the verge of allowing women to be ordained as deacons: "Francis' openness to studying the possibility of women serving as deacons could represent an historic shift for the global Catholic church, which does not ordain women as clergy".