Sentences with phrase «catholic faith and morals»

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When the Church speaks with clear magisterial authority on questions undoubtedly within the compass of «faith and morals»» sexual ethics and the meaning of marriage and procreation» the Catholic house divides one way.

The new synthesis that Holloway called for and spent his life trying to build up was one radically faithful to Christ and his Church and which embraced the fullness of Catholic truth including matters of both «faith and morals».

The Catholic faith is not just a faith of words, not just a message, not just a doctrine nor simply a moral code; it is fullness of life in Christ Jesus, and therefore it is also ecclesial, liturgical, devotional, Eucharistic.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

While this change may be viewed as moral progress, it is probably due, in part, to the evaporation of the sense of sin, guilt, and retributive justice, all of which are essential to biblical religion and Catholic faith.

There exists, therefore, and must exist, a teaching of the Church which possesses an importance and binding force for the faith and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly states it can not and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith, and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the Church's consciousness of its belief.

He was a relentless advocate for the proposition that truth can be known and binding, that faith and reason are compatible, that the Magisterium is arbiter of Catholic moral and dogmatic truths, and that Magisterial teaching should be taught in a Catholic university as integral to its mission.

In these months it has been a disappointment that so few non-Catholic Christians seem to recognize that the attack is not just against the Catholic Church but against Christian faith and morals as such.

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

The Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was renamed the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and, in 1965, became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, aiming to «promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals throughout the Catholic world.&rFaith, aiming to «promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals throughout the Catholic world.&rfaith and morals throughout the Catholic world.»

The Second Vatican Council, in insisting in the document on Ecumenism that there can be no change or concession within the Church Catholic in matters of doctrine of faith and morals, has equivalently informed us in the name of the Holy Spirit, that it is the will of God to give to His Church and to His people who «seek Him with a sincere heart» just such new knowledge, new vision, and new unity.

What was then called «Modernism» in Catholic circles, divided and continues to divide those Churches in the very heart of their faith, witness and moral life.

He was scrupulously orthodox, whether in matters of faith or morals — never flinching from demanding the highest standards in his young disciples and certainly never compromising on the content of Catholic morality.

Evolved DNA, Just in case Gerald doesn't get back to you... Catholic Truth is Truth that the Catholic Church proclaims to be the Truth which relates to faith and morals.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Against eclecticism it presented a unified vision of the Catholic faith; against perennial fideistic tendencies it maintains unaided reason's capacity to know moral truths and establish the existence of God; finally Thomism does not blur the distinction between grace and nature.

Catholics perceived «public school» as not just a threat to Catholics, but, as the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia (CE) recounts, an «imminent danger to faith and morals.»

Building on the rigorous traditions of urban Catholic education and focus on faith formation and development of the whole child — developing self - worth, moral character, a love of learning, and a sense of civic responsibility in all students

Through various professional development activities such as workshops, retreats, and seminars, he has provided guidance, formation and education to leaders of Catholic schools in all 50 states, Canada, Ireland, and Australia and his work in the private, faith - based sector has given him a unique perspective on the moral, ethical, and religious dimensions of education.

The office also unveiled a new brand identity for Catholic schools: Faith - Based, Future - Focused, which summarizes our dual mission of building men and women of strong faith and moral character, while also honing the intellectual abilities that will set them on the path for lifelong sucFaith - Based, Future - Focused, which summarizes our dual mission of building men and women of strong faith and moral character, while also honing the intellectual abilities that will set them on the path for lifelong sucfaith and moral character, while also honing the intellectual abilities that will set them on the path for lifelong success.

As the great Italian critic Croce remarks, he had at once the scientific interest in history and human life of the encyclopedists, the irony of Voltaire, and the faith in Christian morals of the Catholic reaction of the early nineteenth century - the reaction whose romantic exaggeration one can see in Chateaubriand Spirit of Christianity.

«The Supreme Court said that there was a violation, in that to oblige a Catholic school to disengage from its Catholic faith and its Catholic morals in the teaching of its own religion and its own ethical system is a violation and is not justified.»