Sentences with phrase «social doctrine»

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

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

The government has been undermining charities is its effort to regulated, limit, dictate to, control, and get gain from imposing its own collective 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.

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.

• 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.

Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities of Thomistic developments in the wake of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode as far as social doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church.

«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.

«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.»

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

The reform of the episcopal and priestly ministry is a thorny topic and rarely addressed, and yet for social doctrine to be made known there must be reform in order to reveal the practical side of evangelism.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

The man who has known Christ becomes the agent of change, such that social doctrine does not remain a dead letter.»

-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.»

Its intent, as described in its official pamphlet, is «to deepen the dialogue on Catholic social doctrine between North American students and students from the new democracies of central and eastern Europe.»

Open to the truth, from whichever branch of knowledge it comes, the Church's social doctrine receives it, assembles into a unity.

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.

He did not mention free trade in his public remarks, but that is a critical part of what the 1991 encyclical on social doctrine, Centesimus Annus, calls «expanding the circle of productivity and exchange.»

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.

All subject to be churned with the transition into power a Faction with its own Social Doctrine.

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.

John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.

Catholicism has a «social doctrine that sets forth in an intellectually sophisticated way theologically - grounded teachings regarding human nature, society, and the meaning of justice,» he said.

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.

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.

«Charity is at the heart of the Church's social doctrine,» the second paragraph of the new encyclical declares, to no surprise, at all: What else could a Christian account of the social realm possibly take as one of its theme?

Whether it was Brother Saint Albert, Dorothy Day, or Mother Teresa, my journey to the Catholic faith forced me to study the social doctrine of the Church and rethink my presuppositions.

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.

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.

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

«What I have to say about the social doctrine of the Church is from the viewpoint of a Catholic in politics applying my understanding of the problems of the day.»

Without a full discussion of these issues, I do not believe the letter was fair to Speaker Boehner in his honest efforts to balance the Church's social doctrine, nor fair in questioning his personal faith to God.

«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.

Along with their letter they sent the speaker the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, a Vatican document on the teachings of the Catholic prepared in 2004 by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Motivations may be questioned when an incomplete analysis of the Church's social doctrine is presented in a public manner.

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.