Sentences with phrase «for women religious»

To get an idea of the US Leadership Council for Women Religious, the organisation of which the Holy See is making demands, and of some very different American nuns, see our Notes from Across the Atlantic column.

THE FUTURE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS Two views of the Vatican's correction of the Leadership Council for Women Religious, rather different.

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Meeting with LCs, women's groups, other NGOs, religious and local leaders to get referrals for CHP candidates.

Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

The religious right are in the courts fightnig to cotrol women's reproductive rights, keep their pastors out of jail for se x ual misconduct, and for misappropriation of funds.

Verses fighting to control women's reproductive rights, fighting to keep their pastors out of jails for illicit se x ual conduct, fighting to protect their money... Gays are obviously walking in the Godly path and the religious right is going down the drain with the «ways of men.»

After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:

The religious right are in the courts fighting for control over women's reproductive rights, defending their pastors for illicit se x ual indiscretion and misappropriation of funds.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

No, it's more than anything, chick fil A chains» religious freedom to donate for its belief on marriage definition, that it should be between a man and a woman..

Some say marriage is fundamentally for a man and women only, and that states should have the religious freedom to choose whether they allow or recognise same - sex unions or not.

We're dealing with one candidate who advocates a religious test for welcoming refugees (and potentially citzenship) and who, at the very least, has a history of mysogony and objectifying women.

This type of religious zealot dribble and criticizing is what causes war, death and hatred for fellow man / woman... all in the name of religion.

Thank you Ms. Morthole for being a voice of reason in a time when neither the Church nor proponents of religious freedom sounds anywhere close to rational when discussing women's health.

However, just as religious beliefs have caused some serious problems for the world, I can cite you instance after instance of the love of God (or for love's sake) having driven men and women to incredibly kind acts for the betterment of mankind.

And yes of course Andy, your wondering about how many guys a woman has s - x with has been a religious man's obsession for thousands of years.

The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession over the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.

Once the traditional one man, one woman union is open to question, then there is no reason for the government to continue to interfere in what has always been a social and religious tradition.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

It's also noteworthy that virgin marriages increasingly became the domain of religious women between the 1980s and 2000s — and during the same years, the divorce rate for virgin brides continued to drop.

You are of the opinion that it would have been a better in some way to simply deny this woman employment based on her religious beliefs than fire her for her religious beliefs?

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

70 % of abortions in the USA are for religious women.

He appeared to have little regard for womens rights and considering he had the ear of dad he blew a great opportunity to prevent the chronic abuse of women today in many religious countries.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

Might a church that believes in and practices diversity in religious opinion, as well as «Biblical equality» of men and women work better for you?

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, initially surprised by the Vatican's report last month, «plans to move slowly, not rushing to judgment» when the group's 21 - member board meets for three days in Washington, D.C., beginning Tuesday.

The New York Times: Musicians on Trial Over Crude Anti-Putin Song in Moscow Cathedral At the opening of their trial on charges of inciting religious hatred, three young women who performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior said on Monday that they were prepared to take responsibility for «an ethical mistake.»

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.

Police detained 10 women for «performing a religious act contrary to the local customs.»

Like these men and women, we, too are petitioning for a kind of religious freedom that frees us to kick darkness, oppression, and bullying in the teeth.

For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4 % of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortWomen identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4 % of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortions.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

Reuters: Preacher alarms many Egyptians with calls for Islamist vice police Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el - Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.

What does that mean for men and women today: what is the place of religious belief in the political process?

It's been my experience that religious zealots of all creeds, but here in the U.S. mostly white Christians, are the first ones to throw women, children, old people and the disabled under the bus financially so they can grab bigger tax breaks for themselves.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

For centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against womFor centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against womfor what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against women.

And of course there are tons of women and a lot of men who quietly just go about being celibate, or just decide against sex for a period of time for a wide range of reasons... health, a loss of a partner, not found someone they want to engage with yet, religious preferences.

Interesting that the Pope has so much tolerance for the males in his priesthood who are gay, but so LITTLE tolerance for the women in religious orders who just want to serve in the way they feel called.

Everything changed after the Vatican publicly scolded The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group for U.S. nuns, for allowing «radical feminist themes» to go unchecked a conferences and in their literature.

Yet Sister Florence insists that there are «inconsistencies» in the Church's explication on the role of women, especially women religious, and such inconsistencies are what ultimately drive Sister Florence and the LCWR in their search for «equality» in the Church.

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

Many of that day thought it highly improper for women to engage in religious work, but the outstanding service of nurses during the war helped to change things.

It is only by changing religious and secular text which informs such notions for new citizens will this change and finally women will own God on equal terms.

It's always best if women don't involve at all in religious leadership positions except for certain emergencies.