Sentences with phrase «moral issues at stake»

Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake.

Our hearts revolt at it because there is no worthwhile moral issue at stake.

There simply was «no worthwhile moral issue at stake» (October 8, 1914).

The Church faces the task of making the more difficult and nuanced argument that the Catholic conscience should be respected on particular occasions, when the extent of the co-operation and the gravity of the moral issue at stake are such that forcing co-operation would be unacceptable.

Not exact matches

Such an admission makes clear that more is at stake on this issue than a new moral judgment of homosexuality.

It is time for us to help clarify the moral issues that are at stake in our desire for peace.

But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political campaigns, when grave moral issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002; in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War; in response to challenges to religious freedom in America that couldn't have been imagined in 1978, when «work for religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»

When will we take seriously our moral responsibility for the effects of our actions upon the hundreds of millions of people who have no part in the decisions and who do not even share our view of the issues at stake?

Elements of Fellini's circus literally abound, yet there are real worries and real emotions and real, significant issues (history, fidelity / fealty, moral conscience) at stake underneath -LRB-!)