Sentences with phrase «secular press»

That's why he is the man of the moment, and why the secular press needs so badly to mold him in their image.

So the movement towards emancipation from rules leads us ironically into ever - greater episodes of self - righteousness (the secular press makes the Pharisees of Jesus» day seem downright latitudinarian) and scape - goating (and the bigger the goat the better: e.g., Joe Paterno).

During Benedict XVI's April visit to the United States, hardly a story in the secular press failed to mention the teachings of Humanae Vitae, usually alongside adjectives like «divisive» and «controversial» and «outdated.»

According to Bailey, this network has become a standard resource for the secular press.

Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America the plight of persecuted Christians abroad, there has appeared in the secular press a great deal of commentary about the arrest, torture, and execution of believers.

If Pastor Juventus is the best columnist in the Catholic Press, Charles Moore (in my opinion) is the best columnist in the secular Press: his column in the Saturday Daily Telegraph is the best reason for humping home the vast weight of all those colour magazines and other weekend sections; and his diary column in The Spectator is usually the first thing I turn to.

As Wallis observed, most of the secular press missed the religious implications of Robertson's aid.

Even those who do condemn the violence generally spend most of their energy blaming the secular press for inciting hatred of the Haredi community, insisting that the whole community should not be treated as if they were all extremists.

It is disturbing to see the attention this book has received from the secular press, including reputable journals.

A number of more conservative leaders have expressed a nervousness about speaking out, for fear of being pilloried in the secular press, who certainly don't understand the rhetoric of «love the sinner, hate the sin», or getting lumped in with Westboro Baptist Church and their appalling «God Hates Fags» signs.

In case you have blotted the incident out of your memory in self - protection, here it is again, in the words of the Times report, which also demonstrated vividly the consequences of blunders like this, when it comes to the opportunities they present for the secular press to produce a grossly distorted coverage of papal affairs:

Maritain's warning was welcomed by concerned believers, and even the secular press.

Without any hoopla or extensive publicity, the organization held a press conference, but no members of the secular press attended.

A secular press of politics and commerce was instrumental to the rise of diverse mass publics independent of church and nobility.

After a few days a consensus began to emerge in the secular press that the Pope (and maybe even naughty old Manuel II) might have a point.

The popularity of this movement is evidenced by the attention given to it in the secular press when assemblies of its adherents attract thousands in attendance.

Nothing exceeds the endless voracity of the secular press for a dramatic front page headline.

The result is that lay people normally learn about controversial matters only through the secular press.

«The secular press, because it belongs to the world and is directed toward a worldly audience, will never be the ideal organ for transmitting the Christian message,» writes Fr.

It would be neither desirable nor possible to keep the Catholic Church out of the secular press.»

And that really is what they all imagined, Catholic liberals and the secular press, too.

But the secular press ought not therefore to be ignored.

Premier did not publish the story but other Christian news outlets joined the secular press in doing so.

Historians may look more favourably on the case of Galileo than our secular press, but one lesson learnt is the importance of Church representatives knowing science.

When the secular press tried to make an issue of Morlino's meddling in politics, blurring the line between church and state, or coercing his priests, Morlino didn't back down.

Where were they when the secular press was bullied into following a fatwa that most Muslims themselves ignore?