Sentences with phrase «moral teaching»

Which is to say, Catholic moral teaching supplies guidelines, not rules.

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

If this teaching became obsolete, could not other moral teachings also be obsolete today?

And some schools are cutting to the root of the problem by incorporating ethical and moral teachings into the curriculum.

Offers moral teachings Offers rituals of various forms Offers structure within which practice can occur.

He argued that psychological health depends upon clear and vigorous moral teaching and discipline.

Perhaps you can educate us as to what moral teachings religion offers that secular discourse is not capable of accomplishing.

Indeed, some are themselves not convinced by Catholic moral teaching.

But please don't confirm those false and vicious stereotypes of Catholic moral teaching as soul - crushing and freedom - denying, a manual of nay - saying for killjoys.

The long term result of that youthful movement of dissent has been that an entire generation of American Catholics still exists that by and large knows very little of the beautiful vision of Catholic moral teaching on marriage and family.

One remembers when moral teachings about sexual behavior were unambiguous and emphatic.

Children don't have the capacity to understand something that a) there is no proof of existing and b) replaces basic moral teaching with imaginary results.

The book's relative inattention to the rich history of Christian moral teaching from the Church's very inception is less a reflection of the author as a theologian and writer than it is a telling indication of a fundamental weakness inherent in the evangelical Protestant tradition as a whole.

In a stroke then» and without the need to marshal any reasons» the Court could pronounce the traditional moral teaching of Judaism and Christianity as empty, irrational, unjustified.

But within the context of people saying they are SBNR, I don't really see such people reacting against a loosely defined definition of religion as merely moral teachings administered with certain rituals and structures.

There are also specific and relevant instructions to the various churches in the New Testament and of course Jesus» own moral teaching.

Bob: «Christine, what do we do with good moral teachings that predate Jesus?

Only in the sense that this kind of «common sense» is what all properlyinstructed Catholics have always lived by, so one doesn't expect it to be regarded as any kind of «outbreak») doesn't ask the traditional Catholic question «how far can you go» (How is that «traditional», rather than a perversion of Catholic moral teaching derived from a debased, half - jocular, popular understanding?

Jack — I am suggesting that moral teachings change as societal norms change, and that is good.

The teacher didn't seem to believe the Faith, and even opposed basic moral teachings.»

Barrett did make clear in the paper that «judges can not — nor should they try to — align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge.»

The magisterium has an unequivocal moral teaching that he unequivocally rejects.

Some attribute the crisis in part to a centuries - old repressive sexual ethic, while others indict the church's ambiguous and permissive moral teaching of recent decades.

At the same time, Catholics need to be aware that the existing research evidence base is largely consistent with orthodox moral teaching.

Literalists wanted timeless truths the uncontaminated by scholarship, while liberals believed that scholarship had reduced biblical moral teaching to an historical curio.

He pointed out the uniqueness of the messianic character of Israel's religion in whose sacred liturgy and moral teaching humanity is prepared to receive Christ who is «Lord of history and the human heart».

A Long Legacy Of Poor Catechesis The reasons for this were not stupid — the clear moral teaching on this subject has to be presented carefully and appropriately, and it is not the ideal subject for any and every youth group or parish sodality.

This makes it harder to locate Jesus» moral teaching within His offer of a share in His Divine Sonship, and so to preach His unique message.

All the more reason, therefore, to sustain substantive, reasoned moral teachings, even when society as a whole, and even Catholics, don't accept them.

If there were no papacy, no tradition, no doctrine, no common moral teaching against which to protest, it would lose its identity.

The framework of moral teaching shifted away from the medieval preoccupation with the seven deadly sins, which had been understood as wrong because they were antisocial.

Important moral teaching in the Bible may be found in other texts — those that give us a picture of human relatedness that mirrors God's love.

His anthropological analysis becomes moral teaching that is imbued with human appeal.

We may wish for inclusive language and may shy from such «moralizing» of the text, but coupled with Briscoe's lessons on theology and God's ways with people, such moral teaching does not seem out of place.

Therefore the Church's moral teaching states that condom use in marriage is a grave injury upon a good act.

His «anti-life» budget, they wrote, ignores the «most ancient moral teachings» of the Catholic Church on the duty of the powerful to care for the powerless.

Sometimes it seems like the only job of the world is to gently (or not so gently) separate us from our deepest assurances, exposing us once again to that ultimate moral teaching tool: humility.»

I practice Green Yoga, a practice that translates the 5000 year old moral teachings of Yoga into living a sustainable and green lifestyle, one in which we not only learn to purify and transform the body, mind and spirit, but one where we take those teachings off the mat and into the environment.