Sentences with phrase «unique role of religion»

Like his predecessor Cardinal Pio Laghi, Pietro Sambi realized that the unique role of religion and faith in the United States has much to offer the world, and succeeded in conveying this realization to a heavily Europeanized Church leadership.

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All of this is indeed part of the story of the emergence of modern marriage in Western democracies, but Coontz downplays the role of religion in this radical and unique transformation.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.