Vatican says no to native church.ROME -- The Vatican has once again rejected petitions from the Diocese of San Cristobal San Cris·tó·bal A city of extreme western Venezuela in a mountainous region near the Colombian border south-southwest of Maracaibo. Founded in 1561, it was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1875. Population: 298,000. de las Casas in southern Mexico for a semi-independent church, reports the Spanish news service ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative Prensa. Beginning under Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, the diocese has been seeking to create a church rooted in the culture of the diocese's primarily indigenous members. As part of the effort Ruiz ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. a large number of married native deacons to serve the needs of the church there. The Vatican has continually rejected the proposal because of its association with liberation theology and the expectation that the diocese would eventually ordain ORDAIN. To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law. 2. In the constitution of the United States, the preamble. declares that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. married men to the priesthood. Though the Holy See eventually forced Ruiz to resign in 1998 and forbade the ordination of married deacons there, his successor, Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, has continued to seek greater autonomy from Rome. |
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