Word: religione
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...amazed that your long article managed to avoid any mention of religion's role in support of morality. On that subject, a comment by former auxiliary Archbishop of Sydney Michael Sheehan is apt: "It may be objected that in many countries today large sections of the population either deny or ignore the existence of God and yet are well-behaved. We reply that these are people whose good habits have been derived from believing parents or from other Christian influences; that the momentum of Christianity by which they are now being carried along will inevitably spend itself in this...
...Morality, like religion, is inculcated by family and fostered by community. It is the glue that binds a family together. When morality is thrown to the winds, license takes over, and one can witness the slow but sure unraveling of every part of society, similar to what is currently happening in the West. As human beings, we have the capacity to think, reason, elevate our minds and arrive at a rational decision without laying blame at anyone else's door. Immorality is not endemic. We have the distinct choice of being upright or engaging in forbidden behavior. Maria Jacob, Mississauga...
...Catholic League’s calls for a national boycott. Widely considered to be the antithesis to the über-Christian C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is filled with veiled denunciations of religion (and Catholicism in particular). In the books, the very epitome of evil is the Magisterium, an organization that mirrors the Catholic Church in its hierarchy and dogmatism...
Maybe my Catholic upbringing was inaccurate, but all those Sunday mornings spent in Catechism taught me that the very foundation of my religion was to hold onto faith, even when faced with the strongest cries of denouncement...
...Soon Mohamed and Omar were playing billiards together and talking about politics, sports and religion. "He acted like a young guy, like he was cool and everything," says Hnan Shnewer, 16, who was Mohamed's sister and the wife of Eljvir. Through Mohamed, Omar met the Duka brothers and Serdar Tatar, another friend, who would be charged in the case...