11. Bernardin rejected the idea that dialogue within the church was objectionable or that it threatened church teachings. 12. Besides birth control, many Catholics question church teaching on celibacy for priests and the ordination of women. 13. Both Archbishop Quinn and Cardinal Bernardin were careful to emphasize that their proposals for dialogue were not an attempt to subvert church teachings. 14. A devout and divorced Catholic, she had arrived at her own conclusions about church teachings. 15. According to church teaching, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. 16. According to church teachings, a heavenly emissary appeared and told Gregory that he would eventually be safe. 17. According to church teaching, God and Jesus appeared to him and said all the creeds were wrong and an abomination and he was to join none of them. 18. According to church teachings, Moroni was a prophet of God in the Americas. 19. But Balasuriya did not recant any of his views that the Vatican said disagreed with church teaching on original sin, papal infallibility, and the necessity of baptism. 20. But church teaching also acknowledges that sexual orientation is not chosen and gays must be accepted with respect. |