Western Church love

Definitions

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  • noun the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

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Examples

  • This assistance in the present stage of the Western Church is a pressing duty of conscience, not only for the individual Catholic, but particularly for the Church as a whole, in

    Catholic Problems in Western Canada George Thomas Daly 1914

  • The words inserted in the Creed by the Western Church were the occasion of the rupture, for which the rival claims of Gregory of Rome and John Scholasticus of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Except for in Spain, however, Muslims were not an issue for the Western Church—or only an issue at or beyond its borders, not as an internal population that might pass as Christians.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Except for in Spain, however, Muslims were not an issue for the Western Church—or only an issue at or beyond its borders, not as an internal population that might pass as Christians.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • This Sunday, August 15, our brief fasting period ends as we celebrate another of our Twelve Great Feasts, the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God -- better known in the Western Church as the Assumption of Mary.

    Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God 2010

  • This Sunday, August 15, our brief fasting period ends as we celebrate another of our Twelve Great Feasts, the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God -- better known in the Western Church as the Assumption of Mary.

    Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God 2010

  • In recent years, it has become increasingly observed in the Western Church, as well, where some have become eager to recover the fullness of our common faith -- an enriching fullness and a wholeness, which, largely due to historical circumstances, has been kept from a good many of us.

    Scott Cairns: The Prayer of the Heart 2010

  • In recent years, it has become increasingly observed in the Western Church, as well, where some have become eager to recover the fullness of our common faith -- an enriching fullness and a wholeness, which, largely due to historical circumstances, has been kept from a good many of us.

    Scott Cairns: The Prayer of the Heart 2010

  • The fact is that when such conditions arise, as they have arisen again and again in the Church, and as they have arisen in the Western Church especially in the last half-millenium, it seems that God in his mercy continues to raise up other sorts of pledges of his covenant.

    'The Fellowship of the Baptized' - The John Coventry Memorial address 2010

  • This Sunday, August 15, our brief fasting period ends as we celebrate another of our Twelve Great Feasts, the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God -- better known in the Western Church as the Assumption of Mary.

    Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God 2010

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