Sentences with phrase «basic teachings of the church»

For many of us, it has been a source of irritation for some years that people who do not frequent the Sacraments, do not accept many basic teachings of the Church, and spend a great deal of time celebrating all this, should keep announcing that they are Catholics.

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In the ongoing discussion of Catholic literature today, the basic question is whether Catholic writers actually need the Church, and not just any church, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings iChurch, and not just any church, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings ichurch, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings iChurch with its magisterial teachings intact.

In my opinion, I do not think this woman is a practicing catholic since she is ignoring this basic teaching of the catholic church.

On the other hand, it gave a basic signpost on the way: the great truths taught in scripture are indeed the way of salvation, and those entrusted with the teaching office in the church have no right to use that office to teach anything else.»

I agree with the old confessional docu - mts of the Protestant churches; with the decisions of the Ecu - menical Council; with the basic teachings or tenets of the Fathers of the Church and of course with the Bible.

The majority of Americans, whether or not they were devout, identified with some church and its basic teachings.

It also laments the failure of the church to teach its members the basic stories of the gospel, and refers to the difficulty of raising children in a culture of consumerism and violence.

I was taught growing up in the church that if you say one thing and then do another, that is the basic definition of hypocrisy.

Christianity, Troeltsch taught, can assume any of three basic social forms or types: the church, the sect and mysticism.

You have Christian faith when these basic attitudes are consciously and pre-eminently drawn from, based on, or focused by the teachings and example of Jesus whom we call the Christ or the body of the faithful that we call the Church, and when there is a deep commitment to living out these basic attitudes in your life.

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

He visited the island and spent some time teaching these men the basic creeds and prayers of the Church.

Our editorial overview of Christian formation in our multifarious Church suggests that the work for such basic coherence in Church teaching is one crucial aspect.

A conservative pundit criticizes the statement because it also affirms that «the Catholic Church teaches emphatically that individuals and society must respect the basic human dignity of all persons, including those with a homosexual orientation.»

Certainly, every single parable in the tradition has to be approached with the basic assumption that, as it now stands, it represents the teaching of the early Church: that the voice is the voice of the risen Lord to the evangelist, and of the evangelist to the Church, not that of the historical Jesus to a group gathered by the sea of Galilee.

The basic premise in all of it is that what the church teaches is secondary, a distraction from what it does.

The choice of the word «firmitur», «firmly» regarding the way the Church's teaching on the matter is to be held is a case in which the universal magisterium, present in the Council, reiterates that which the Church believes she has always held about the basic historicity of the Gospels.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).