Sentences with phrase «against the church official»

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Even though the official Catholic Church teaches against contraceptives, I do not feel immoral using them.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

If you listed every single good deed done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.

Bonhoeffer led futile protests against the Confessing Church's 1938 decision to allow pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fürhrer and the wartime «legalization» of Confessing pastors (in which they made some concessions to the official church in return for financial and career secuChurch's 1938 decision to allow pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fürhrer and the wartime «legalization» of Confessing pastors (in which they made some concessions to the official church in return for financial and career secuchurch in return for financial and career security).

The Second Vatican Council «deplores,» it declared, «the hatred, persecutions, and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and from any source,» which would appear to include the official sources of the church's past.

Church authorities have taken action against some theologians who have dissented from the official teaching on matters of sexual morality.

Their protests, in dramatic contrast to the silence of church officials, stirred to the surface a long tradition of lay resentment against the higher clergy.

It was in the Synod of AD 486 the church made an official decision which went against the radical ascetic tendency of the East and against the canon laws of the West.

I can not but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity... relegating it] to the purely private sphere... [such] that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience... and the official teaching of the Church.

«The Church of England has no official policy either for or against hydraulic fracturing (known as «fracking»)», Philip Fletcher, chair of the CofE's group...

This discriminates not only against such groups as the Salvation Army and the Jehovah's Witnesses but even against the Catholics, whose only official presence at that time had been one church in Moscow.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

In China there is an official Church which the government allow but it is controlled and spied on, all other Christian gatherings are against the law.

American pastor Mark Driscoll is to take a six week sabbatical from preaching whilst officials at Mars Hill Church investigate allegations made against him.

Burke, together with four other top Vatican officials, including Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the church's top doctrinal watchdog, has just published a book of essays against Kasper's proposal to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion.

Catechism of the Catholic Church succeeded through the heroic work of then - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and against the advice of many Bishops; World Youth Day flourished in the face of opposition from official diocesan youth - work bureaucacies.

As he leaves the Papacy, it is still unclear whether the Catholic Church will ever recover from the reports of terrible crimes against the children and the official indifference which met them.

Hoskins and Schaub, who had no inkling that anything was ever amiss at their idyllic high school, serve as ready - made characters through which «Keepers» director Ryan White («The Case Against 8») can sort through a story that is painfully tangled up in broader, awful details of ritual rape and a coverup by both church officials and local police.