Sentences with phrase «questions of public morality»

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The Colloquium is a group of Jewish and Christian theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and scholars that meets periodically to consider questions of morality, religion, and public life.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

Where religion is independent of the state but confined to merely «private» questions and not governed by a public theology, social morality becomes merely opportunistic.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

Beyond that, minimal secularism has no ambition of providing final substantive answers to key questions of political, public, private and sexual morality.