Sentences with phrase «essentials was marriage»

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What cracked the surface here, then, was the culture war being waged over same - sex marriage — not commitment to theological robustness and the essentials of the faith.

But what is the reason of principle that can be given by those who, while rejecting the idea that sexual - reproductive complementarity is an essential element of marriage, do not --- or do not yet --- wish to give up the idea of marriage as the sexually exclusive union of two, and not more than two, persons?

The issue is that essentials of the faith and theological robustness speak to the Christian creeds and not to anything about marriage.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

The essential belief among those who practice plural marriages is that they are necessary to achieve the greatest exaltation in what Mormons refer to as the celestial kingdom, the highest of heavenly kingdoms.

When marriage is reduced to a contract for mutual economic advantage among any configuration of consenting adults, something essential in what Christians understand to be «marriage» is lost: something «deep - down - diving,» to borrow from the playwright Ibsen.

Gay marriage makes it increasingly hard even to talk about what is essential to true marriage.

To violate this fidelity in marriage is to run incredible and enormous risks of destruction of essential human meaning.

«The essential ingredient for marriage is deciding to make a mutual life - long commitment and not sliding or drifting into cohabitation with little or no planning.

[5] The essential case against condom use in marriage is that it is gravely unchaste, not that it is risky.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

He seems obsessed with the idea that because people don't all agree with him on issues such as gay marriage that it is essential we all look to the bible to figure out what's ethical and moral, and all assume that it is the final word on what's right or wrong.

Religious arguments are, so they insist, superfluous in defending a traditional view of marriage: «Because marriage uniquely meets essential needs in such a structured way, it should be regulated for the common good, which can be understood apart from specifically religious arguments.»

There can be no doubt that skill in marriage and family counseling is essential for an effective ministry!

«They must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»

We all promote the same essential moral view of sexuality: Sexual intercourse is moral only between a man and a woman within marriage and only when the spouses respect the procreative end of the marital act.

I'm not sure what you're saying tony but yes, abortion and gaay marriage have been taught against in the Catholic church for centuries and they are, if not dogmatic, certainly essential, teachings within the church.

It is possible to make the argument in support of traditional marriage, but it is essential to have the courage of one's convictions.

I've seen in my marriage the pain of abortion, in my family the pain of a child who lived a handful of hours, of being in need and not even fellow Christians will assist in the smallest of essentials while unbelievers readily will.

One of the essential functions of a good marriage is for the partners to provide encouragement and support to each other as they go through anxiety - producing periods of crisis — pregnancy, illness, children growing up and leaving home, deaths of parents, husband's retirement.

Honor one another above yourselves» (Romans 12:10), then it stands to reason that mutual respect is essential in marriage.

Permitting each other to find «additional anchors of intimate association in children» (13) is essential and inevitably changes the nature of the intimacy - distance pattern in the marriage.

What will Synod 2015 say to the world that will make the world think again about marriage and the family, before these two essential building - blocks of civilization are further dismantled and traduced?

This is an area in which ministers have unique and essential contributions to make in marriage counseling and renewal.

Clearly the fact that a particular car won't start is as irrelevant to the determination of whether cars are for driving as the fact that a car is blue or red; Dowd's argument simply confuses accidental and essential characteristics of marriage.

Today, Snow declares, the local church should provide the community of caring which is essential for healthy marriages and families.

The life - style of «generativity» (Erik Erikson)-- investing self in others and the ongoingness of humankind — is essential to having the best marriages at any stage.8.

If a marriage is frozen, the skills of a competent marriage counselor are essential.

The Catholic World Report asked Cardinal Burke how important he thought it was that Pope Francis should «make a statement soon in order to address the growing sense — among many in the media and in the pews — that the Church is on the cusp of changing her teaching on various essential points regarding marriage, «remarriage», reception of Communion, and even the place of «unions» among homosexuals».

In contrast to the position expressed in The Open Marriage, it is my conviction that, for most couples, positive fidelity is essential if they are to achieve «deepening sexual pleasure integrated with love.»

Rather, the Court now believes that what is essential to marriage is the autonomy right of «self - definition» in one's intimate relationships and the right to be esteemed for this choice.

The basis of the decision is a claim to special enlightenment (we shall not say «revelation») about the meaning and import of liberty — special because the majority claims access to essential truths about marriage, sex and liberty heretofore unavailable to all peoples in the entire history of the world.

The Court's argument rests on an insidious and profound misunderstanding of what «essential» means — let alone what the essence of marriage is — and a majoritarian understanding of moral progress.

Thus, the Court claims, there is precedent for the view that the procreative potential once thought essential to marriage is in fact no more central to the institution than the race, precedents embodied in the Court's previous affirmation of liberty rights to contraception and sodomy in Griswold and Lawrence.

Furthermore, our needs change at each stage in marriage; it's essential to update our working understanding regularly in order to satisfy emerging needs.

Hearing Wolterstorff's quip, one would never guess that great figures from the Christian past like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, who affirmed openness to procreation as one of the essential goods of marriage, were well aware of the crude technologies of contraception of their day and the lamentable fact of infertile marriages.

Therefore since my religion does allow and celebrate all marriages (My husband and I were married by a minister) it is not essential that I believe in your flavour of religion to be married.

Such listening in depth is essential for both partners if there is to be depth sharing in a marriage.

That our culture and the Court have come to accept the moral liceity of both contraception and sodomy does not show that the «essence» of human sexuality and marriage have changed — indeed, what is essential to something can not change, belonging as it does to the nature of the thing — but that our prevailing sexual culture has grown ever more unnatural, irrational, immoral, and destructive of human flourishing.

Among the many important things said by the Holy Father, I believe the most important was this: «The Catholic faithful must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»

Its warrant for this claim is that social changes, including recognition of the equal dignity and rights of women, «have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential» (2, my emphasis).

But it does not follow that marriage is essential to the Christian life because Christians can experience God's grace in a marital relationship.

Marriage by its very nature is between a man and a woman and it is the essential foundation of family life.

And he calls the Church to take the ministry of marriage preparation with ever greater seriousness, seeing it as an essential instrument of evangelization, especially for those who have trouble understanding that commitment is liberating.

The willingness to compromise, that is, for each to give up something which he finds desirable for the greater good of the relationship is an essential factor in the growth of spiritual creativity in mixed marriages.

Because the marital subsystem is the dynamic core of a family's evolving identity, growth - oriented marriage counseling (concurrent with family therapy) is sometimes essential for enhancing family interaction.

To help break the stranglehold of sexism on the full becoming of both women and men, it is essential that marriage and family therapy and enrichment help parents learn methods of nonsexist child - nurturing.

I was there to report on the Fit Body and Soul program — a marriage of prayer and calorie counting — which used the tenets of the bible and the help of local nurses to explain to parishioners why weight loss was so essential.

Protecting the sanctity of innocent human life and defending the traditional definition of marriage are clearly essentials.

During our 26 - year marriage, figuring out how to do conflict well has been imperative and essential.