Word: catholicism
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While I may not speak for all Christians--or all Catholics--I believe the "message of compassion in Christ's teachings" that Roberts mentions is entirely separate from the political agenda of conservative Christian groups. How ironic that anyone would use the phrase "compassion in Christ's teachings" as a...
...officer of the Catholic Students Association and a regular reader of The Crimson, I was disappointed by the statement in a news article (Oct. 27) on the "ex-gay" movement that a Harvard student had "turned his back on his Catholicism because of the church's espousal that homosexuality is a sin." Certainly no one ought to remain a member of a faith community if they can no longer find any kinship between the beliefs of that community and their own beliefs; however, the statement that the church espouses the belief that homosexuality is a sin is patently false...
The Committee on Marriage and Family of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops recently stated: "[I]t seems appropriate to understand sexual orientation (heterosexual or homosexual) as a fundamental dimension of one's personality and to recognize its relative stability in a person...Generally, homosexual orientation is experienced as given...
DETROIT: This time, some might say, he's gone a little too far. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the champion of assisted suicide who has helped anywhere between 50 and 100 terminally ill patients die, appears to have helped a woman kill herself in a church. The 74-year-old Nadia Foldes...
It was Foldes' wish to die in a church ? and there was, according to Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger, a "sympathetic priest" at this establishment. But it was an utterly brazen act on the part of the man dubbed "Dr. Death," for the Roman Catholic church ? which has yet to comment...