Sentences with phrase «moral matters»

The game involves decision - making on moral matters.

Though smoking and drinking are permitted, the group is traditional in other moral matters.

And to whom do we «postmoderns» look in the history of the Church for guidance in moral matters?

The Catholic Church, especially in the hundred years prior to Vatican II, seemed to believe it could achieve clarity and certainty in most moral matters, and that at a very detailed level.

One of these is the process of dialogue about moral matters for which Jesus used the rabbinic expression «binding and loosing» and of which he said that, when it is done in his name, it receives the seal of his presence and stands in heaven.

To be clear, neither the archbishop nor the Pope is proposing to change his church's teaching (the Pope can, the archbishop can not); but both realise that constant church harping on about what are (except for those directly affected) relatively minor moral matters is disastrous for mission.

Which makes it all the more surprising — NJC pushing all that aside, and assuming an arch-legalistic view, on a matter that has scaled the narrow precincts of the courts into a burning moral matter, in the public space.

He admitted that it bothered him that this decision may have already elevated their status beyond what current legislation provides and he complained — most justifiably, in this writer's opinion — that the British Parliament seems «quite incapable of dealing with such potentially controversial moral matters as reform of the divorce system,» leaving the courts to keep up with the «ever - changing Zeitgeist.»

Preaching can take place in the context of an ongoing conversation within the congregation about moral matters that matter a great deal.

International documents provide guidance in practical legal terms, but can't settle the moral matter.

Over the past decade or so, the majority of Americans affirmed or at least acquiesced to the progressive agenda, at least in cultural and moral matters.

Unbelieving Americans are disgusting in moral matters and lifestyles.»

The analogy between these laws and southern laws against interracial marriage, which were struck down in the 1960s, may or may not be strong as a moral matter, but it is not strong as a constitutional matter: those laws were aimed at maintaining white racial supremacy, a practice that had clearly been identified as a constitutional wrong by virtue of the amendments following the Civil War.

But this has been explained as a moral matter: they are ashamed of being this way.

The second, insofar as it springs from no willful or deliberate act, seemed to him not a moral matter but an inescapable feature of all societies and of nature itself.

The church's formal commitment to ecumenical engagement would be deepened by attending to theological and moral matters in meaningful consultation with other churches.

On moral matters, he remained very conservative.

These moral matters simply can not be addressed without getting into the particularities of moral commitment and the traditions and communities that ground those commitments.

The Catholic system, however, does have a method for ensuring a liberal pluralism in moral matters: a system called «probabilism.»

It gave Catholics the right to dissent from hierarchical church teaching on a moral matter, if they could achieve «solid probability,» a technical term.

About two - thirds of the professors do see the Bible as infallible in faith and morals matters.

He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought — a system of characters for irreducible concepts — and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve all scientific and moral matters.

Venter's feat was «extraordinary in many ways, but «does not amount to creating life as either a scientific or moral matter,» the report concludes.

As a moral matter: are we doing right by these kids?

In his epic poem, Dante reflected on theological, philosophical and moral matters that still bear relevance for the issues facing society, politics and the economy today, but also questions of faith.

It is a moral matter.

This is the URGENT public health, human rights, humanitarian & moral matter and the WINDOW of time to act is short and we need to move fast to «Save Konkan» & «Save Earth.»

This is not a political or military choice, but a humanitarian and moral matter that our society as a whole has to engage in.