Word: catechismic
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While Graham addressed the universality of the act of prayer, “what we’re all going through in an attempt to stay sane,” listening to the poems, one had a sensation of being lost in private words and myriad details. As she slipped...
John Constantine, on the other hand, has a close if prickly rapport with the major angels and demons of the universe, and two symmetrical forearm tattoos that, when pressed together, create howling wind and various other supernatural phenomena. (This, too, is never fully explained in either the movie or most...
Calvin's catechism included the familiar Ten Commandments--which, with their injunctions against theft, murder, adultery and lying, are themselves effective social organizers. Added to that were admonitions to pay taxes, perform civic duties, behave in a civil manner and submit to the authority of magistrates. "You must understand religions...
Technically speaking, yes. The most useful comparison may be with the church's anti-capital-punishment stance. The Pope has explicitly connected executions with abortion as part of the "culture of death." But church teaching on abortion is "definitive": Catholics must obey it as an act of faith. Teaching on...
In the words of the scholar Alexander Schmemann, “It is not because it gives life that love is good: it is because it is good that it gives life.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “Homosexuality closes the...