Yet the weight of imperial power and domination does not do away with that essential condition of an oecumenical council.
Wherefore, they wander away from the right path of truth who assert that it is lawful to appeal from the judgments of the Roman pontiffs to an oecumenical council, as if to an authority superior to the Roman pontiff.
In view of such plain propositions, we should like to be informed how inerrancy or infallibility can be attributed to an oecumenical council?
An oecumenical council is, as the church teaches and every Catholic is bound to believe, infallibly directed and assisted by the Holy Spirit.
He announced his intention of convoking an Oecumenical Council.
It is unlawful to appeal from his judgments to an Oecumenical Council, as if to an earthly arbiter superior to him.
And thus the ever growing rejection of Christianity will be powerfully strengthened, so that even believing Protestants watch with sorrow an OEcumenical Council preparing to compromise its authority.
Italian Bishops, who had to call themselves an OEcumenical Council, and dictated their votes.
Is this the proper work of an OEcumenical Council?
Before the council, discussion was allowable; since the definition proclaimed by an oecumenical council united to the Pope, all discussion is closed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oecumenical council" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
