Diarmuid O'Murchu's views rejected.Rome--The doctrinal commission of the Spanish Episcopate has issued a rejection of the views of the Irish priest and writer Diarmuid O'Murchu, M.S.C. The detailed analysis appeared in the English edition of L'Osservatore Romano L'Osservatore Romano ("The Roman Observer") is the Vatican's newspaper. It covers all the Pope's public activities, publishes editorials by important churchmen, and prints official documents after being released. at the Vatican in March 2006. The nine-page text may be found on Zenit.org, April 16, 2006. The critique concentrates on the book Reframing reframing (rē·frāˑ·ming), n the revisiting and reconstruction of a patient's view of an experience to imbue it with a different usually more positive meaning in the Religious Life: An expanded vision of the future. An introductory paragraph states the following: "According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Father O'Murchu, religious men and women 'should leave the Church and take on a non-canonical status' since 'the values of religious life belong to a more ancient pre-religious tradition.' "He therefore marginalizes Christian revelation and its ecclesial Ec`cle´si`al a. 1. Ecclesiastical. transmission, abolishes the need for redemption, and proposes a non-Christian vision where the 'Kingdom' or the 'Reign' is a substitute for Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. and his Church. "Father O'Murchu also disfigures the sense and significance of the religious vows of poverty, obedience and chastity. In the final analysis, the proposals made in his book, far from promoting a renewal of religious life, will rather bring about its destruction." |
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