Sentences with phrase «teaching on abortion»

Catholic teaching on abortion, transsexuality and gender also contravenes the Equalities Act agenda.

Its traditional teaching on abortion and contraception has by no means been marked by consistency.

Consider the pro-abortion slogan «if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament», which takes for granted that Catholic teaching on abortion is simply areflection of male social dominance rather than a point of principle.

For example, in teaching on abortion, the Roman Catholic church says it is always wrong, because murder is forbidden, whereas liberal Protestants may accept that it is the lesser of two evils.

In a helpful recent blog post, Christopher Damian draws on the ideas of John Henry Newman to explore how Church teaching on abortion has developed in the past, and how the teaching on homosexuality may develop in the future.

America insists that it does not dissent from the Church's teaching on abortion, and we have no reason to doubt that.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

There was an excellent discussion on Delaware public television on the subject of Joe Biden, Catholic teaching on abortion, and Catholic voters.

Those who are disposed to looking for «loopholes» or «exceptions» with respect to the Church's teaching on abortion will predictably exploit such a statement.

Before reviewing the 2008 General Conference's action on the church's official teaching on abortion, a little history is in order.

In 1972, General Conference adopted the denomination's first explicit teaching on abortion under the heading «Birth and Death.»

As is typically the case in this genre, the author's rage is directed at the Cardinal's abiding by church teaching on abortion and the homosexual «lifestyle.»

It is, furthermore, a matter of calling the bluff of those who insist that the Catholic Church's teaching on abortion, euthanasia, and marriage is a «sectarian» teaching that can not be «imposed» on a pluralistic society.

Predictably, the denomination's teaching on abortion received more than a little attention at the conference.

The individual teachings on abortion and same - sex relations fit in a larger, coherent system, and Judeo - Christian teaching emphasizes the authorship of God in nature.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

But, more fundamental, it is worrying that Campolo encourages young people to view Christian moral teachings on abortion and marriage with doubt and insouciance.

And I certainly know pro-lifers who think the «social justice» side pays only reluctant lip - service to church teachings on abortion and euthanasia.

Not exact matches

The relationship between views on the death penalty and abortion — both issues in which Catholic teachings and US law are not in alignment — were zeroed in on by the panel.

So does that mean since a bunch of rogue nuns with feminist ideals taught over the last 50 years should force the Church to change its current teaching on euthanasia, gay marriage, and abortion?

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

If this is left to stand, then the government can also FORCE religious schools to no longer teach creationism, government can FORCE religious hospitals to perform abortion on demand, government can FORCE a Catholic DIOCESE to recognize gay marriage, government can FORCE...

They talk about an attack on religious teachings while speaking at an NRA event about how abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men, women, children, as well as innocent pregnant women with unborn babies.

As far as I know, he hasn't appealed to any of Jesus» teachings to support his position on embryo destruction, abortion on demand, partial birth abortion, or born - alive abortion.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

Proponents of the movement to excommunicate Kerry point out that abortion differs from such issues as just war and capitol punishment in that Catholic teaching on the issue is unequivocal.

The Holocaust is simply the biggest club available for liberal Catholics to use against traditional Catholic teaching — especially on issues relating to sexuality, including abortion, contraception, celibacy, and the role of women in the Church».

On his trip to Brazil, Pope Benedict said, as he has said before and as canon law specifies, that politicians who reject the Church's teaching and support abortion gravely impair their communion with the Church and should refrain from receiving the Eucharist.

I think, though, that the section on abortion would be greatly strengthened if teachers (and therefore students) were further reminded of the seriousness of the crime of abortion in Catholic teaching and their obligation to resist it.

By overwhelming majorities, younger Catholics believe that one can be a good Catholic without going to mass every Sunday and without obeying the Church's teaching on divorce, remarriage, and abortion.

We ought to seek a fuller understanding of the Church's teaching on sex and marriage, particularly why practices such as contraception, abortion and IVF go against the dignity of the human being and are therefore morally and intrinsically evil.

Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing about it.

Why should we apply the teachings of Scripture to our positions on state - sponsored abortion but not to state - sponsored war?

As Jonathan Dudley observes in a recent Belief Blog post, U.S. Catholic leaders began to take on abortion right after Roe v. Wade legalized it in 1973, but American evangelical leaders continued to teach that life begins at birth until the late 1970s and early 1980s.

If the Bible clearly teaches us that our politics should center on the abortion question, why did it take nearly 2,000 years for Bible believers to figure this out?

When the teachings of the Church are attacked and their advocates described publicly as bigots, who is there to come forward to restate and defend the universal principles that underlie Catholic doctrine on abortion, homosexual and extramarital sex, euthanasia and so forth?

The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.

The Catholic Church should not be playing politics, especially when the Catholic on the ticket is known for a budget that is 100 % opposed to Church teachings - except for abortion.

a rather pointed open letter implicitly, but very clearly, characterizing Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage (and, perhaps, on abortion as well, though that is a little less clear) as «repression,» and implicitly characterizing the Archbishop himself, who is a strong defender of marriage, chastity, and the sanctity of human life, as an oppressor.

His job is to focus on the task at hand, whether exploring «Abortion in Halakhic Literature,» «The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories,» «Teaching Torah to Non-Jews,» «Animal Experimentation,» or «Mental Incompetence and Its Implications in Jewish Law» — sample titles from the three volumes of Contemporary Halakhic Problems.

The second pronouncement, on abortion, enjoys little if any direct support from Scripture, but is confirmed by early Church tradition and by the constant teaching of the magisterium, at least in our century.

On the other hand, the teachings about abortion contained some remarkable scientific premonitions, including the insight that the early fetus could not have personal status.

The church's stand on abortion is a «moral teaching» — it is not a doctrine of faith.

As the encyclical Evangelium Vitae notes, the judgment regarding abortion does not rest on any one or any several Bible passages but on the entire teaching of revelation about life created in the image of God.

These statements include those made on 23 February, partly retracted by Baroness Morgan with regard to abortion, but also immediately after her retraction when she says that Catholic schools «will be required to teach that contraception exists, is available, and to say that the Church's point of view isnot the only one» (our emphasis).

A liberal Muslim hom.ose.xual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist

Christians are the ones trying to dictate what should and shouldn't be taught in school (Intelligent Design vs Evolution); they whine when women stand up for their rights (birth control, abortion); they whine when LGBT ask for equal rights; they stand on street corners and hand out their propaganda; they literally try to step in to every aspect of the public forum.

(Astorino is also Catholic and, following church teaching on the subject, personally and politically opposes abortion.)

Daniels, who teaches several courses on reproductive politics, including abortion law, said students often asked about the content of information provided to women in informed consent states.