Sentences with phrase «on faith and morals»

... Without a substantial philosophical formation, the teaching of the church on faith and morals becomes incomprehensible.

The 1968 recognition that the Church's teaching on faith and morals could be defied with impunity ushered in a period of «wink and nudge» also with respect to sexuality, in its sundry expressions.

The author is Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the publisher is Doubleday, and the price should be no obstacle to a book that offers a fresh analysis of what has gone wrong with the Church in America, a convincing case for encouragement, wise counsel on how to engage the public square and, not incidentally, restored confidence in the ability of (some) bishops to teach on faith and morals.

The Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was renamed the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and, in 1965, became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, aiming to «promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals throughout the Catholic world.»

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

The Church speaks with Christ's own authority on faith and morals and evils such as abortion, casual sex, the culture (or «anti-culture») of recreational drugs, binge - drinking, and pornography.

In a position associated with infallibility - though that refers to formal proclamations on faith and morals - the pope declares his weakness.

Those who willfully remain ignorant of the Church's teachings on faith and morals will not be excused simply because of their baptism.

Not exact matches

While ridiculing the claims of both «liberal «secular» and «conservative «religious» theorists, it is only religious theorists whom Posner appears to concede may be able to produce a credible theory of moral realism, based on «faith in a Supreme Lawgiver.»

People of all faiths do or do not do illegal things based on their value systems, their needs, and their basic moral principles.

not faith in his existence) IM not going to base my whole life on science like some people do... science will fait... science does not say what Is moral and what is... so science can not be everything

I see the liberal media has its traditional attack on Christian truth on a holy day with historical revision and truth distortion to suit the needs of those who wish to kill the moral message of the faith.

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

When the Church speaks with clear magisterial authority on questions undoubtedly within the compass of «faith and morals»» sexual ethics and the meaning of marriage and procreation» the Catholic house divides one way.

The college of bishops in union with the Bishop of Rome, and bishops individually, are thought to have a special charism for teaching on matters of «faith and morals.»

The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

Atheists can be moral, happy, financially successful, kind, have good families, be charitable, and so on, all without having to profess faith in god no one can show exists.

(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

On the upside, I've never been ridiculed or ostracized on account of my Christian faith, and it's easy to live a moral lifestyle when most of my friends and neighbors share my value systeOn the upside, I've never been ridiculed or ostracized on account of my Christian faith, and it's easy to live a moral lifestyle when most of my friends and neighbors share my value systeon account of my Christian faith, and it's easy to live a moral lifestyle when most of my friends and neighbors share my value system.

«The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth... by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock.

Far from despising reason, they use all of it they can get their hands on, but when the Pope speaks on matters of faith and morals, that is final.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... we need believing people.

These theories witness to the power of the human intellect, but few would claim that they bear on questions of faith and morals.»

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

Faith was a persistent theme in the presidential race, and moral and ethical questions surrounded budget debates, mass killings and an unexpected focus on «religious freedom.»

after clarifying the validity of this evolving faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is for us humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect of our existence, though we are confident of His guidance through evolution, we with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up with guide lines in our moral lives.

The vague and sprawling nature of the phrase «faith and morals» fosters the idea that pope and bishops are equally and univocally competent on matters concerned with faith and morals.This would be particularly the case in a church conceived in a highly centralized and authoritarian way.

It is naturally less personal than those written to people he knew, and it is his greatest theological statement — an exposition of his faith, its foundations, its bearing on suffering, sin, and problems of moral decision.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

In the same manner that the Church can not realistically expect the world to accept our teaching on moral and social issues without recognition of our perspective, the world and «lazy Catholics» must eventually realize that there are foundational truths which are immutable to the faith.

According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

The existence and value of ethics is not dependent on the existence of god since ethics is a moral philosophy grounded in logic and not blind faith in a deity.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

With the controversy over the site and substance of his proposed Islamic center now spanning the globe, the imam is relying on an informal cabinet of faith - based advisors, many of them Christian and Jewish, for crisis management advice and moral support during the most difficult public crisis of his life.

(The unanimous moral judgment of a body of Christian theologians on most of these matters is stated in the report on «Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith» issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.)

Where the Council was not teaching on matters of faith and morals, such as where it was describing contemporary conditions or offering recommendations for renewal, its statements are to be received with respect and gratitude but are not necessarily flawless in either their factual accuracy or their prudential judgment.

The Second Vatican Council, in insisting in the document on Ecumenism that there can be no change or concession within the Church Catholic in matters of doctrine of faith and morals, has equivalently informed us in the name of the Holy Spirit, that it is the will of God to give to His Church and to His people who «seek Him with a sincere heart» just such new knowledge, new vision, and new unity.

This work of fiction charts the devastating consequences on the lives of real people of the decoupling of society from orthodox faith and morals.

In a long series of captivating thumbnail biographical sketches, he documents both the force of the modern mind's attack on religion and the grief that accompanied it as people lamented losing the aesthetic and moral dimensions of faith.

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

But his words were bound to be misunderstood in Rome, as well as distorting his teaching in a way that for generations has allowed Catholics anxious to challenge the magisterium on some point of faith and morals to claim that they have Newman on their side.

He was scrupulously orthodox, whether in matters of faith or morals — never flinching from demanding the highest standards in his young disciples and certainly never compromising on the content of Catholic morality.

If the members of the Southern Baptist Convention truly believe that only those who place personal faith in Jesus Christ will be saved and that no concessions to this belief should be made on the basis of its troubling moral implications, then for consistency's sake, they must also vote to condemn the teaching of the age of accountability.

Similar attacks were made on the Church of England's report Faith in the City (1985), which was criticized by some for blaming crime and delinquency on bad social and economic conditions, rather than on the individual's moral failure.

The idea of placing so much faith in a book that was told orally for many generations after being based on some similar events before being put into writing by MEN is not enough for some people to kneel and pray in forgiveness for moral missteps or praise and thanks for creation.

For the same reasons you believe morals are merely opinions, many / most Christians do not have faith in the Spirit, and basically ignore or outright reject the teaching on moral freedom found in Paul's letter to the Galatians (among other places in the NT, but it is most - clearly written out there), though they don't know they are rejecting it and somehow think they are in agreement with it (if they've read the letter at all).

Attention is on the particular — on the way specific religious and moral leaders have dealt with the nitty - gritty of faith and life.

Just as the biblical narrative carries its own force and can not be reduced to a single teaching or moral, faith as expressed in story and metaphor is coherent on its own terms.

In their historical context, however, the issues, in response to which the Pauline formula was forged, no longer existed: because Christianity was well on the way to becoming a gentile religion, separate from Judaism, the question of the salutary benefit of faith in Christ, which earlier had arisen among Christians who did not observe the cultic requirements of Jewish law, and in that sense were without «works of the law, arose now among Christians whose lives exhibited moral laxity, which could be understood in terms of popular moral philosophy.