“It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.” MenShouldSeemsLawChurchDoorsFairsCatholicPriestsMosquesRoman Catholic Author:Trevor Phillips
“To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.” DifferentCountryLawCommunityPrinciplesCatholicAgencyWhy NotAdoptionOur CommunityMethodistsSharia Author:Trevor Phillips
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.” YearsFirstsLawChurchModernHundredYears AgoOrganizationCatholicStructureWestEightCatholic ChurchCanon Author:Peter Drucker
“I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .” BelieveLightLawI BelieveChurchLibertyCatholicI Believe InLove LifeCatholic ChurchThelemaLight Life Book:The Diary of a Drug Fiend Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.” ShouldCountryStatesLawPoliticalEnergyFeltCausesChurchLibertyPrinciplesLimitsElementsConstitutionCatholicAffairScaryActiveAdministrationFixedLegislationPenetrateVigilanceUsagePolitical Life Author:Pope Leo XIII
“Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world.” WorldHumansChristianLawAuthorityAspectCatholicJewHuman LifeSecularCanonMuslim WorldShariaJewish Law Author:Pamela Geller
“As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingKindTwoLawChoicesChurchDecisionViewsJudgingBabyBehaviorAdultsCatholicDrivenPunishmentCapital PunishmentPersonal Views Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.” IfsThinkingCountryGovernmentWantedLawFeltBornAuthorityWorshipCatholicAtheistJewFlagsPledgeAllegianceBaptistsCondemnationWorship GodGreat Respect Author:Jimmy Carter
“Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.” NeedsTodayLawNumbersGroupsTomorrowRelationCatholicTeaSouthernBaptistsAccommodationsRoman CatholicSouthern Baptist Author:Charles Haynes
“It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.” StatesFormLawUniverseBeliefNaturalClearCatholicRemainsStrategyLibertarianDefinedTribesPaganNatural LawBarbarismMystiqueRhetoricalBernard ShawRhetorical Strategies Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."” PlayChristianLawBeliefNationsTeachPsychologyRightsTeachingEqualEthicsClaimsCatholicInstitutionsEqual RightsEvangelicalInstructorsFetishDeist Author:Robert Dabney
“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.” WayLongLawAbilityWhitePoorGroupsExampleCitizensLong TimeConcernedCatholicJewVariousTrialsImmigrantsHistorianTomsArrivalsPrecedentWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!” LawMotherSpeakViolenceCatholicNewspapersViolentGirlfriendIslamicIn-lawsBaptizedMother In Law Author:Pope Francis
“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.” KnowsMenHeartDoeLawPurposeHumanityTurnsWishVoiceSocietyConscienceMen And WomenCatholicChristian InspirationalHumanity And SocietyRule Of LawEngraved Author:Pope John Paul II
“The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.” LawChurchSacrificeDangerCatholicMissionsTransformedMartyrCapturedCatholic ChurchUnbelieversAntagonistRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography
“Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.” HumansPersonsLawCatholicKillingGravesDeliberateViolationEuthanasia Book:The Encyclicals of John Paul II Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.” HumansPersonsLawChurchAccountsHarmonyCatholicKillingGravesAbortionDistinctionCommunionDeliberateViolationCatholic ChurchBishopsPredecessorsEuthanasia Author:Pope John Paul II
“You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.” ShouldMayChildrenDoeLawMotherDiesFatherBornRightsDoctorsCatholicInstanceEstatesWombUnbornRight To LifeFetusUnborn Child Author:Janet E. Smith
“Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.” LawPoliticalTermDealsPositionDiversityCatholicCourtWideSupremeNineCatholicismSupreme CourtTents Author:Cass Sunstein
“I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”” ThinkingHeartLawUniverseSpeakPrayerSimpleLordBreakMorningPrayingPleaseCatholicEvery MorningI PrayConvenienceAmen Author:Emo Philips
“It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.” PeopleGivingLawReligionDangerousCatholicAbsurdIndianCodeSectionsOffendedDisputesFanaticsBlasphemyAccusationFalse Accusation Author:Richard Dawkins
“I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.” KnowsBelieveGovernmentMightLawBeliefForcePolicyProtectUniqueConcernCatholicFundamentalsComplexesJewSeekingBelieverExperimentsConsiderationYou ChooseDominantPreservationProtestantsNon Believer Author:Mario