Sentences with phrase «lamentable consequences»

The clearest example of our field's disregard for the old and valuable — and this disregard's lamentable consequences — relates to urban Catholic schools.

Not exact matches

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

«What is so helpful about the incarnational analogy,» writes Enns, «is that it reorients us to see that the Bible's «situatedness» is not a lamentable or embarrassing situation, but a positive one: That the Bible, at every turn, shows how «connected» it is to its own world is a necessary consequence of God incarnating himself.