Sentences with phrase «catholic thinking on those issues»

Priests and others are reluctant to talk about controversial areas of morality, especially the «pelvic issues», with the result that the main influence on Catholic thinking on those issues comes from the surrounding culture.

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Perhaps Johnson's most powerful contribution is his demonstration that American Catholic thought has lacked clarity on the issue of intervention.

It is, of course, impossible to know his heart, though not altogether impossible to know his mind, and it is telling that on what are perhaps the three most crucial international policy issues facing the next president «the Arab world, Iran, and illegal immigration «Gingrich's positions appear to have been shaped significantly by Catholic thought.

A thought on all the anti-catholic stuff that always seem to make an appearance in these discussions: I am a lapsed Catholic myself, but that has more to do with my own challenges with God, than with issues with the church itself.

Yet reading parts of the Catholic press in the UK, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Church was on the brink of relaxing her prohibition on the divorced and re-married receiving Holy Communion, even that this was a central issue at the Synod.

I used to think that abortion was chiefly an issue dividing Catholics and Protestants, but this is not the case — though the top Catholic authorities are today more adamant on the subject than are the leaders of other denominations.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, it is said, is one of those who hold this view: what is needed, he is thought to believe, is (in the words of John Allen Jr of the American National Catholic Reporter) «good relations with Islam, but also a more robust capacity to challenge and critique Islamic leaders, especially on issues of «reciprocity» — the idea that if Muslim immigrants benefit from religious freedom in the West, Christians should get the same treatment in Islamic states.»

The bishops of Missouri have issued a statement on gun violence, and one of the bishops has given an interview explaining the thinking behind it: Missouri's four Roman Catholic bishops said the...