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You have a completely un-Catholic view of the role, significance, and authority of Vatican II, and of Oecumenical Councils.
On the state of the Traditional Roman Rite in Latin America -- a liberal's report 2009
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In my country most would be lying if they said that they remembered what the Oecumenical Synodus of Nicaea was or was about, but everyone,I mean 99% everyone knows or knows about the nicene creed here being called the “Pisteuo”= “I believe” or “Symbolon tes Pisteos”= “Symbol of Faith”.
Divided by a common language: Richard Dawkins clarifies his position - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Oecumenical Patriarch at Constantinople and besought him to release him from his obedience.
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The next important event in Methodist history during the Queen's reign is the rise and progress of the great Wesleyan Missions in the towns -- a vast beneficent movement, in which some at least of the aspirations cherished by the promoters of the first Oecumenical
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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The Oecumenical Conference did not aim at determining any debated condition of Church membership, or at defining any controverted doctrine, or settling any question of ritual; it met for consultative, not legislative purposes.
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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I. _Oecumenical_ or Universal Creeds, which are accepted by the whole
An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism Joseph Stump
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Saul commemorating a critical incident in his career (Acts xiii. 9) by a similar adoption of a name; and that assumed by Ignatius became in its turn an epithet freely applied to the Fathers at the Oecumenical councils.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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The growing affection among Methodists of all branches made the idea of an Oecumenical Conference practicable.
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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In the first place, the idea of calling an Oecumenical Council had been much in the air.
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Oecumenical Society was by no means his original thought.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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