... world, to resist the siren calls of fundamentalism in our attempts to remain faithful to our tradition. He argues that true fidelity ... such as those of stem cell research, switching off life support machines, ‘assisted suicide’ and declaring war. He resists ...
... a better future. The current crisis obliges us to re-plan our journey, to set ourselves new rules and to discover new forms of ... be. It gives us the opportunity to renew our energies and to work for a better future’. Pope Benedict, in his ‘social justice’ ... by Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical: the need to support trade unions and the rights of people at work. I hope that renewing ...
... see people weeping over the sins of others; this reaction to our fallen world is so alien to contemporary experience that most people would ... for example, to give women the money, baby clothes, and support they need in a crisis pregnancy fall prey to arguments that they limit ...
... Leonard looks at how we understand the presence of God in our lives when we are faced with suffering. Using his own experience of a ... such acts on us. We need to stare down those who promote and support a theology that portrays God as a tyrant. God does not send ...
... we are moved by a good spirit that works inside us towards our true happiness and a bad spirit that works inside us to destroy us. After ... Summa Theologiae is the greatest of many works written to support this great venture. After 1550, in some courts the Jesuits replaced ...
... the canon of Greek philosophy were regularly introduced into our tutorials even when his subject was supposed to be the more arcane musings ... philosophical debate about naturalism. Invoking the support of a number of analytic philosophers, most importantly David Wiggins ...
... thoughts are relevant or irrelevant to a certain epoch or to our times. The scope of this article is to demonstrate critically, and with ... some people had their passports burned because they did not support the ruling party. Fanon remarks that the leader, because he refuses to ...
... Lords Commissioners (a cabinet) running England with the support of the Commons. In 1399, Richard, having reasserted himself, was ... measure the arguments for and against were to be set out – our modern idea of a Loyal Opposition. MPs should vote by casting coloured ...
... we are opposing God’s purposes, no matter how admirable our aims may seem to be. Secondly, however, diversity is difficult; there ... been marching up and down with placards, expressing their support for their favourite apostles, as though they were football teams: ...
... On the 150 th anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous, Frances Murphy recounts her experience of ... who would be unable to make the pilgrimage without their support. And in the Masses and Reconciliation services that take place daily, ...
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