1. I have no right to be saying anything that goes against Church teaching. 2. Church leaders permitted no dissent from church teachings. 3. Although he has proved adept at reconciling the Catholic Church with other faiths and peoples, he has never succeeded in reconciling his own faithful to church teachings. 4. Among church teachings is a belief in reincarnation across billions of years and billions of galaxies. 5. And church teachings condemning, he thought. 6. And he reaffirmed church teaching which bars women from ordination to priesthood. 7. And what she believes, sometimes at variance with accepted church teachings, is often articulated in the national media. 8. At some level, we were rooting for a disaster that would affirm and justify church teachings. 9. At the seminary where most of conference attendees are staying, a priest who is opposed to church teachings on birth control is found murdered. 10. At times, heresy has played a useful role, in terms of clarifying church teachings. |