Commentators — both scholarly and popular — who favor a change in the Church's view of the sacramental and spiritual status of Catholics living in illicit second marriages have hailed the document. (firstthings.com)
Gnosticism itself, however, merely translates the desire for some special place in history or among the nations to a longing for an elite spiritual status in the eyes of God. (religion-online.org)
According to the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, Jesus reversed Jewish belief about spiritual status. (religion-online.org)