Search Results: Dissent in the Church
…Church on homosexuality simply cannot change any more than the Church can change truth itself. The Catholic Church on Homosexuality The teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality has…
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…Excommunicate Belongs to the Church Some dissenters strangely claim that the Church does not have the right to excommunicate. However, the Catholic Church has always possessed the right to excommunicate…
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…the laity, a synod has typically been the special purview of the Church’s shepherds. The risk, then, is that by seeking to “democratize” Church governance and expending so much time…
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…More generally, sterilization is a form of mutilation of the body and is thus illicit. https://youtu.be/1l2TTlFzsq8 Consistent Church Teaching on Sterilization The Church has judged sterilization to be a…
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…the “domestic church.” “The meaning of this traditional Christian idea,” he explained, “is that the home is the Church in miniature. The Church is the sacrament of God’s love. She…
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…Church would give the Eucharist to absolutely anyone and everyone. Instead, however, the Church has always taught (and still teaches) that if certain basic requirements are not met, then a…
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…this topic. Other Catholics may sincerely believe the dissenter’s mantra: “Conscience is our final guide, even if it conflicts with Church teaching.” Regardless the reason, every adult Catholic should be…
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…ironically, they placed higher expectations on the Church to live up to its teachings than even many Catholics. If the Catholic Church truly believes what it says it believes, then…
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…the veil of the temple. Notre Dame is the symbolic heart of the Catholic Church in France. And France – the “eldest daughter of the Church” – is in many…
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…Manipulation [New York City: Seabury Press], 1975, pages 198 and 199. Father Häring is a longtime dissenter from Church teachings, but his quote shows that even many dissenters recognize the…
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