Pope Francis goes on to say that instead of casting blame or issuing condemnations about this change, he calls on Christians to live out their faith, not just preach it, stating, "A Christianity which "does" little in practice, while incessantly "explaining" its teachings, is dangerously unbalanced".
While I hesitate to issue blanket condemnations about gun ownership — my upbringing simply doesn't support that — common sense would seem to dictate that it is prudent and wise to consider the place of guns in modern societies.
No need for strong condemnations about gun laws (unless you feel so led).
Asked to describe his likely battle with Kyle Beckerman, Feilhaber did offer that the RSL captain could be "a little bit of a prick on the field" but he seemed to be speaking more in admiration than condemnation about his adversary, in what could be one of the key battles on Saturday afternoon.
My original text for accompanying these images was filled with the usual litany of concerns about the gun culture in America; condemnation about the belligerent NRA that continues to mythologize and cloak any attempts at sane gun control as the first measures that will trigger an avalanche of attacks on "freedom".
From the highly criticized, and widely protested, re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this past June, to international condemnation about the country's "nuclear proliferation activities" (which Iranian authorities repeatedly deny), Iran is at the center of the debate on stability in the Middle East.
Yet the SWC/MOT has yet to utter a single condemnation about the Trump campaign's xenophobia, its attacks on African Americans, its demeaning of women, its calls for and encouragement of violence, its mocking of the handicapped, even its defining Mexicans as rapists.
"The issue of human rights is not about condemnation, but about awareness, empowerment and improvement," he said.
Miss Suu Kyi suggested that resolving strife was not about condemnation, but about "finding out the root, the cause of the conflict".
For the adulterer, thou-shalt-not condemnations are "about as useful as throwing spring onions at a charging wolf".
After an hour of pointed questioning by MPs, Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the committee, told Adnan Siddiqui, the group's director, that it was "deeply misguided not to have issued [a condemnation] about Paris".
