Sentences with phrase «confessional state»

Although Costa Rica is the only confessional state in Latin America, it's constitution forbids the direct participation of clergy in politics.

The point is this: Over time, and especially after the Wars of Religion and the French Revolution, the «confessional state» — a state committed to advancing the true Catholic religion and suppressing religious error — became the standard Catholic model for government.

Following independence in 1922, the Republic of Ireland became a confessional state.

What this narrative tends to ignore is that if Ireland was indeed a confessional state post «1922, this is because the vast majority of people wanted it that way.

The free exercise of religion allows a religious community to democratically agitate for its legal establishment and for a confessional state.

Neuhaus is saying what I think he is saying, that a confessional state is simply a bad idea per se, then it would seem he has never read Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors.

Neuhaus probably has read this condemnation, and if such can be reconciled with his ostensibly prudential judgment that a confessional state is a bad idea right now, then why does he not make his position clear?

We should not want a confessional state.»

Does he mean that in the present state of affairs, where the prospect of a confessional state is next to nil, we should prudently strive incrementally to achieve a lesser good, like a merely civil society, postponing the direct pursuit of a sacred public square and a confessional state until prudence dictates?

So the model American classroom would be animated discussion of the cases for and against Roe v. Wade, for and against polygamy, for and against democracy, and for and against a confessional state.

A natural law Constitution need not mean a confessional State, even though it is true that natural law is a Christian concept — but that point got completely lost in the emotional maelstrom that passed for a campaign here.

Neuhaus presumes that he therefore must oppose confessional states.

A third and final facet of the question relates to the possible forms that distributive justice can take in Catholic confessional states, which Dignitatis Humanae admits may differ legitimately from the shape that distributive justice typically assumes in liberal regimes.

Not exact matches

From a purely utilitarian standpoint, however, the failure of the state to respect the integrity of the confessional seal is a foolish blunder.

Waldstein skillfully articulates, thirteenth - century France was ordered according to a different theology and anthropology, within which the temporal and the spiritual were dynamically and sacramentally interrelated, manifested in a social space known as «the peace» that bore little resemblance to modern states, confessional or otherwise.

If the state is allowed to insert itself into the confessional in order to gain information on child abuse, then how can the state be prevented from also demanding information from clergy on other crimes such as murder or conspiracy?

Opening the door of the confessional to the state only invites further abuses of religious liberty.

The idea of a confessional Catholic state belong to an earlier period in European history and it has become an irrelevancy under contemporary conditions.

There is a traditional main - line position that favors the confessional Catholic state as the ideal type of relationship between church and state.

Confessional parenting is a clear - and often stated - reaction to the June Cleaver ideal of the saintly parent, open - hearted and even - keeled.

coordinating national policies and brokering compromise between member states in the Council («confessional system») management and administration of the Council, external and internal representation;

Also testifying, Friday Ebelo, an operative of the EFCC, stated that, he came across the accused when he was called by Sini Omar to attest to the confessional statement of the first accused which was taken on May 8,2014 at 1400Hours.

The statement referred the general public to the parade of the suspects by the state commissioner of police, Mr. Aminu Pai Saleh on Thursday, May 10, 2018 in Ilorin, during which he announced that the suspects were arrested for alleged murder and membership of cult groups but made no mention of any confessional statement linking their activities to any sponsors.

It already states the parameters of dark and light, earnest and funny, confessional and cinematic, alone and fused.

Witnesses are entitled to abstain from testifying (before both Consob and the public prosecutor) only in the limited cases in which such an abstention is allowed under the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, including if the witnesses are close family members of the person under investigation, are requested to testify on matters covered by professional, confessional or office privilege (including privilege granted to lawyers, journalists, doctors and ministers), or are requested to testify on matters covered by public office privilege or state secrecy privilege.