Sentences with phrase «magisterial judgments»
In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.
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Giving magisterial authority to the death penalty, Pope Innocent III required disciples of Peter Waldo seeking reconciliation with the Church to accept the proposition: «The secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgment of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation.»
Since the distinction between natural and supernatural orders tends to dissolve if the desire for the beatific vision is built into every natural judgment, the normativity of Scriptural statements and magisterial pronouncements is undermined.
Kennedy's judgment was a far cry from the words of the great legal scholar William Blackstone, who referred to sodomy in his magisterial Commentaries (1769) as «an offence so dark in nature, the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature, a crime not fit to be named.»
Ultimately, however, this level of discernment can not be a matter of private judgment, but of magisterial decision.
This post focuses mainly on the human rights issues, but the judgment of McFarlane LJ, described as «magisterial» by Sir James Munby, merits reading in full.