Sentences with phrase «own social doctrine»

Tell that to the atheist that are imposing their own social doctrine and expelling the diversity of cultures from the public square.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

That's not the case in Europe, where Benedict XVI's social doctrine is regarded as wildly counter-cultural» even as it offers Europe what may be its last chance.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

It does mean beyond cavil that Michael Novak has contributed significantly to the development of Catholic social doctrine at the highest level of its teaching authority.

I also took a two - year catechetical certificate program, which included a class on Catholic social teaching with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church for a textbook.

All the more reason, then, to be grateful to two Catholic University professors for having assembled a florilegium of brief texts from a century of Catholic social doctrine, and then artfully arranging them as answers to the real - world questions asked by business people trying to live their professional lives vocationally.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

It's people like this that gave us our National Social Doctrine called the Affordable Care Act.

On moral and social doctrine, however, it seems the LCMS has achieved something very close to unanimity.

• Catholic social doctrine from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI, Bernard Laurent relentlessly argues, is one of relentless «intransigence» against the Enlightenment, modernity, liberalism, and all their pomps and works.

I don't know, but I'll risk a guess that the editors thought it worth a momentary suspension of their liberal propensities to have someone take on with gusto, which Laurent certainly does, those terrible Catholic neoconservatives who construe Catholic social doctrine in a way supportive of a market economy and liberal polity.

«The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it,» Ryan said.

Speaker Boehner's position on moderating federal taxes is to encourage employment growth and sustain business and non-profit activities, again in keeping with the Church's social doctrine.

It seems Speaker Boehner's voting record aligns reasonably well with this principle of the Church's social doctrine.

The Compendium on the Social Doctrine of the Church states «Subsidiarity is among the most constant and characteristic directives of the Church's social doctrine.

In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has in any case made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.

And it has particularly informed my social doctrine.

This social doctrine provided the alternative to the Marxist notion that revolution and the collectivizing of the means of the production would establish a just society in which charity is superfluous.

Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can't take care of themselves, people who need help,» Biden said.

-LSB-...] the proponents of Populorum Progressio -LSB-...] would seem to be promoting a «hermeneutics of rupture» when they claim that the tradition of Catholic social doctrine began anew with Populorum Progressio — a claim that at least some passages in Caritas in Veritate can be interpreted to support.

«It is certainly true that Catholic social doctrine challenges all parties in the ongoing debate over political economy in the United States.

He then points to the body of modern social doctrine from Leo XIII in the late nineteenth century to «my great predecessor John Paul II.»

«In a first phase, the attention of this discipline was oriented, rather, to problematic situations within society -LSB-...] With the theological emphasis, John XXIII treats more decisively the question of all this in terms of the human person -LSB-...] John Paul II then reinforced this -LSB-...] In the logic of this Encyclical, we find then a further stage, perhaps a third phase in the reflection on social doctrine.

This cluster of teachings represents one of the most revolutionary social doctrines ever conceived.

Does the bishops» charism to teach the principles of Christian social doctrine extend to those judgments of fact and of the politically feasible that are needed to turn principle into policy?

There were the economic, political, and legal problems of modernity — the aspects of modern life that made necessary the development of «social doctrine.»

There can be no social doctrine without reckoning with «the integral truth about what is real.»

The church has always criticized greed and advocated for a social doctrine.

The social doctrine has four foundational principles — human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity, and solidarity.

But a truly social doctrine of the Trinity contains the vision of a community of women and men in church and society without privilege or subjection to each other - or to God.

Chapter Six, on the «Social Doctrine of the Church,» covers in 34 pages some of the most misunderstood and controversial teachings with exemplary clarity and humanity.

The submersion of the dialogical life by the «once for all» of gnosis, theology, philosophy, and social doctrine is only a part of a larger development of civilization.

The social doctrine teaches that the problem of poverty is best addressed by empowerment: enabling poor people to enter the circle of productivity and exchange in society.

Such is the «constructive, distinctive and authentic contribution» of Catholic social doctrine.

Such an attack has no warrant in Catholic social doctrine.

He does not seem to have wanted to elevate his own contribution to social doctrine to a more central place in his magisterium; it was enough for him to adapt Leo XIII and Pius XI to the specific needs of a world ravaged by ideology and warfare.

Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor — crafted so that each «fits» the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America — strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine's principle of subsidiarity.

CNN is not the customary locale - of - choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which contains numerous references to values, especially in the context of marriage, the family, and Christian social doctrine.

There's no application of Catholic social doctrine to help us think in a disciplined way about how to respond to environmental threats, or how to reform global capitalism.

These traditions of social doctrine can help us see our task: to understand how a globalized free market that is eroding solidarity can be shaped into a social market.

Such an imaginary circumstance might be democratic in the sense that it would reflect the majority will, but it would violate the freedom and justice at the heart of Catholic social doctrine.

It's become a cliché to say that «no candidate and no party fully embraces the vision of Catholic social doctrine.»

That reconstruction could start with U.S. Catholics leavening our politics — and the culture as a whole — with Catholic social doctrine.

«The new evangelisation, which the modern world urgently needs and which I have emphasised many times, must include among its essential elements a proclamation of the Church's social doctrine.»

One crucial distinction is that teaching the basic principles of Catholic social doctrine go to the heart of her charism, but she has no special expertise in prudential judgments about how to apply them.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

The Church's social doctrine is not a «third way» between liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism, nor even a possible alternative to other solutions less radically opposed to one another: rather, it constitutes a category of its own.