Sentences with phrase «question on our consciences»

We leave a question on your conscience - to buy books for the reader, or to download them free of charge (probably breaking copyrights).

Not exact matches

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

«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.»

Liberal Catholics respond by downplaying the Church's authority, putting an accent on freedom of conscience and emphasizing that there's room for questioning and doubt.

Here Bonhoeffer wrestles with a profound existential question that plagued his conscience: «The truthfulness of our words that we owe to God must take on concrete form in the world.

How we discharge the duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism of the last two decades, or by raising our voices on behalf of the laws and democratic norms of our country — is a question of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.

This is by no means merely a formal question, for the outcome of our examination of conscience will depend on where we start from.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

The question is no longer whether couples may marry, but whether a baker may refuse to sell them a wedding cake on the strength of his religious or moral conscience, without risking a lawsuit.

This is the question that must be forced upon every human conscience by our increasing awareness of the tide of anthropogenesis on which we are borne.

Pope Francis has reaffirmed the «primacy» of using conscience to handle tough moral questions in a message on The Joy Of Love, his document which prompted warnings of a schism with its opening to civilly remarried Catholics receiving Communion.

While they support his election as pope, nearly three - quarters of American Catholics say they are more likely to follow their own conscience on difficult moral questions than the teachings of the pope.

In any case it seems to me that there are times when we have no choice but to follow the dictates of our conscience, to throw ourselves on God's mercy and not ask too many questions.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

We believe that Catholics who, in good conscience, take positions on the difficult questions of legal abortion and other controversial issues that differ from the official hierarchical positions, act within their rights and responsibilities as Catholics and citizens.

I'll try and salve my guilty conscience with the knowledge there will be serious numbers of celebrity Arsenal «fans» who are no more worthy than me of planking their oversized backsides on their overpriced seats, and won't question for a second their entitlement to be there.

First Reformed: Written and directed by Paul Schrader (script - writer on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver), this quiet movie becomes Dostoevsky - intense as a small - town chaplain (Ethan Hawke, going into darker territory than he's ever done before) wrestles with questions of conscience that prove literally explosive.

By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.

I'm not convinced a judge will buy that DA itself is not an «information provider» responsible for the development of the blogpost in question when the discussion of publishing houses is so central to its mission that Jane says «I can not, in good conscience, maintain a blog about this subject without being free to report on all publishing houses.»