Sentences with phrase «catholic man of letters»
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Then, in a letter to one Canon Lougham, penned on December 21, 1882, he writes: «Few days pass without my having letters from strangers, young and old, men and women, on the subject of the Catholic religion.
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«The Catholic Church, which considers man redeemed by Christ as her way» (cf. Encyclical «Letter Redemptor hominis, n. 14), insists that the recognition of the dignity of the human being as a person from the moment of conception also be guaranteed by law.»
Such a «right» of «faithful dissent» has long been claimed by Catholic progressives, not least with respect to Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the appropriate means of regulating fertility, and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II's apostolic letter reaffirming that the Church's authority to ordain extends only to men.
(Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004).