Sentences with phrase «issues of public life»

edited by Steven M. Avella and Elizabeth McKeown Orbis, 375 pp., $ 50 A very useful book that brings together Catholic documents addressing issues of public life from the American founding to the present.

Not exact matches

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

More visible to the outside world than modernizing our Membership model, we also strive to lead by taking public stances on issues that impact businesses across Greater Vancouver, and thus our communities and the standard of living we aspire to have for our families.

The president did not address the issue in his public remarks, focusing instead on the power of prayer as a centerpiece of American life.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

But Catholic teaching typically explains a hierarchy of public issues, prioritizing marriage and sanctity of life, for example, which are intrinsic to Christian faith, over important but less theologically binding issues of prudential judgment, such as federal entitlement programs or immigration.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.

• «A Catholic Call to Civility in Public Life» is issued by a distinguished list of Catholic laity, led by Thomas Melady, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.

Although Calvin is remembered primarily as a theologian and biblical commentator, his experience of the realities of public life in the cosmopolitan imperial city of Strasbourg had given him a new confidence to address the issue of Christianity in the public arena.

REAPPEARING SOCIALISM On opening the April issue, it was great to learn in «The Public Square» of «The disappearance of socialism as a live political option in the West.»

But, somehow, the combination worked» the newsletter transmogrified into The Public Square at the back of every issue, and the quarterly morphed into a monthly analysis of religion and publicPublic Square at the back of every issue, and the quarterly morphed into a monthly analysis of religion and publicpublic life.

Although Calvin never lost sight of these themes, he is perhaps best remembered for his detailed exposition of the leading themes of the Reformed faith in his Institutes of the Christian Religion» widely regarded as the most significant religious work of the sixteenth century» and his wrestling with issues concerning the identity of the church and its place in public life.

Serious inquiry supports civility in public life, inquisition damages it, and whatever reservations some might have about his positions on particular issues, these essays show Michnik to be very much a mainstay of that civility.

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

When I was induced in 1965 to write an essay for an issue of Daedalus on religion in America, I chose the theme of religion in American public life, concluding with a ringing condemnation of the Vietnam war.

By the time this issue reaches you, we will have produced the first annual report for the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the nonprofit foundation that publishes First Things and firstthings.com as well as running a variety of programs.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

George Weigel calls for the Church to «discipline itself» into a narrow public witness addressing religious freedom and life issues only, what he sees as «the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

These are not the problems that occur to thoughtful people, even intellectuals, generally, as they contemplate both the public issues of the day and how to order their own lives in relation to the increasingly confusing world.

On the contrary the weight of authority was often in favour of a spirituality that abstained from critical issues of social and public life as being alien to, or a distraction from the deeper spiritual quest of union with God.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their fIssues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their fissues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

There have been scores of Mormon officials in American public life over the years and all of the sudden, our religious beliefs become THE issue in 2012.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

Over nearly twenty - five years of public advocacy involving sanctity - of - life issues, I have met many people who, like those mentioned above, struggled in the bioethics - sphere.

There used to be an ideological division of labor in what might be called the terminal issues of American public life.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

This exchange was carried on in numerous meetings, large and small, formally sponsored by Religion and Public Life as well as over informal lunches and dinners and drinks» a conversation among socially and politically and religiously passionate scholars and clergymen and even, sometimes, among the staff during the meetings at which we decided on the contents of the next issue of the magazine.

Thus, the issue of the role of religion in public life is an important one which deserves the public's attention.»

Judge Graham expresses in his decision thoughts that by now should be quite familiar to our readers: «The Justices of the Supreme Court disagree among themselves on the proper role of religion in public life and the extent of the Court's authority to decide these issues under the Establishment Clause.

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

Any witnessing together on public square issues must be grounded in a common faith in the Holy Trinity, in Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word made flesh, and in the Bible, the written word of God which norms Christian life, thought and action.

A while back the NCCB issued a splendid statement, Living the Gospel of Life, which was very specific about the responsibility of Catholic politicians and others in the public arena.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has in recent decades become the champion of the Church's public priorities — the protection of innocent human life, parental choice in education, the defense of marriage, church - state cooperation, and an array of issues under the rubric of religious freedom.

Against this dualism, between the internal and external, private and public, a dualism which has led to the exploitation and oppression of many human beings, I contend that followers of Christ have no other option but to take an active interest in the earthly, secular things such as politics and economics because Jesus would not permit us the luxury of dwelling in a «spiritual ghetto unrelated and unconcerned with real life issues».

And much though not all of First Things» work has been in the service of a religiously informed «public philosophy,» seeking to find a common language for perennial truths about marriage, life, freedom, and other issues in the public square.

For St. Augustine, the issue is not whether to be engaged in the affairs of public life, but how.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marriLife, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marrilife, the end of life, and marrilife, and marriage.

This, of course doesn't means we don't deal with political issues (which emcompass just about every aspect of public life), but it doesn't have that dynamic of allegiance and it isn't about personalities.

Whether the issue was civil rights, Vietnam or urban renewal, the Century always feared the activities of the radical element, and abhorred the use of violence to gain power in public life.

Another obvious example of the dangers of religion in public life is the abortion issue.

There the great issue was the institution of Christian discipline; i.e., the subjection of all phases of life, personal and social, private and public, to the moral - religious demands of the gospel.