Sentences with phrase «general practice of the church»

We should also admit in all honesty that in the general practice of the Church these distinctions are suppressed rather than clarified as far as the faithful are concerned.

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Catholic universities adopt many of their practices from the general context of higher education in the United States and around the world; since they emerge from the Church and draw from the heritage and teaching of the Church, it should not be surprising to non «Catholics that the Catholic universities also relate features of Catholic heritage to the university.

Why can't the religious practice their beliefs and do all their preaching at their retreats and inside their Churches instead of exposing themselves to their co-workers, their neighbors and the general public who may not want to see them waving their religious junk around in everyone faces?

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion... More

This is because such prayer would call down graces of conversion that would lead to lapsed Catholics returning to the practice of their faith, and to a general revitalization of the Church.

In a striking leader by its editor, the excellent Luke Coppen, the Herald encouraged its readers «to hold the Corporation to account, notably for the blundering and reckless coverage of the affair on the BBC's website» and urged the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson (himself a practicing Catholic) «to trawl through the archives of BBC News Online tosee how ignorant and one - sided reports of «Muslim outrage» helped manufacture a crisis for the Church that has endangered the lives of Catholics».

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion Therapy aimed at altering sexual orientation.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.&General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.&general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion Therapy aimed at altering sexual orientation... More

At the 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis, legislation affirming that «we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider this practice incompatible with Christian teaching» was adopted by a 765 - 181 vote of the delegates.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

The only way in which her defense could be deemed plausible would be if the church in general had maintained in practice, not just theory, a high view of marriage.

Ever since the 1980 General Conference declined to take a definitive position on the ordination and appointment of «self - avowed practicing homosexuals,» the 1984 General Conference, which met last spring in Baltimore, was targeted by several groups within the church to accomplish just that purpose.

Second are those in which religion in general, or a specific faith in particular, is favored against other beliefs, as in the older requirement at the state level that officeholders believe in God, or in the nineteenth - century practice of supporting some churches with taxes.

There are two points in that brief sentence, and the failure of the medieval Church to observe them or to reform its practice in conformity with them, is highly typical of the general failure to reform itself, with which Luther was so radically concerned.

So my realization is not a judgment or a condemnation of the people at the church, their theology and practices, or even of pastoral ministry and churchianity in general.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has once again warned against the practice of finding spouses on social...

Nine years later, in Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property disChurch v. Hull Church, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property disChurch, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property dischurch property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property dischurch only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property dischurch adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property dischurch property disputes.

While it's always been a fluid, free - market kind of place, Sidley has in recent years moved to make its famous litigation practice an even broader church — «when I started there were four or five litigation groups and then about two years ago they changed the organization to just one general department, meaning attorneys have more freedom and the teams can do more cross-selling.»

Likewise Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah 508 US 520 «a law that burdens religious practice need not be justified by a compelling governmental interest if it is neutral and of general applicability» (the ordinances were not narrowly taylored, unlike murder statutes).