Sentence examples for church teaching from inspiring English sources

When many of these issues surfaced in the Catholic Church during the long pontificate of Pope John Paul II, they aroused passionate dissent, and ringing defense, of Church teaching, but all sides were clear on what the Church teaching was.

He followed church teaching, he said.

There is an authority and a central Church teaching.

He even holds to church teaching that artificial contraception is wrong.

"So I think she has officially challenged church teaching in ways that are beyond the pale".

And he supports same-sex marriage and abortion rights, stances sharply at odds with church teaching.

Church teaching holds that abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, is an "intrinsic evil".

"They wished to make it clear that this did not represent church teaching".

Supporters praised him, saying that he brought the diocese more in line with church teaching.

The move earned him a reputation as a pragmatic rather than zealous enforcer of church teaching.

(Many Catholics, in Boston and elsewhere, do not know that church teaching opposes the death penalty).