Sentences with phrase «jurisdiction over morals»

That assumption is, simply put, that the state has jurisdiction over morals.

A more radically Christian approach would be for the Church to challenge this assumption by reasserting her own jurisdiction over morals.

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It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

Jay - Z argued, among other things, that the federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over alleged violations of Egyptian «moral rights,» but in an opinion issued on May 2, 2011, U.S. Judge Christina Snyder disagreed.