"Pope Francis clearly placed the Church on a new path, toward an evangelizing style that is less focused on doctrine and more willing to invite people in, no matter what their status," Thavis wrote in his blog.
While Pope Benedict was more of a doctrinal defender who envisioned a smaller, purer church, Pope Francis said the church should be a "home for all" and not a "small chapel" focused on doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.
Francis criticized those who focus only on doctrine without also demonstrating mercy and compassion.
Nicolas Bonetus places the doctrine of the formalities at the center of a new, and systematically elaborated, science of metaphysics, which focuses on the doctrine of the transcendentals and reserves the consideration of the divine to natural theology.
From then on, all his considerable intelligence focussed on conservative doctrine, and his general knowledge atrophied.
This empathetic account of the women of early Mormonism focusses on the doctrine of polygamy, first articulated by Joseph Smith in 1843.
At oral argument, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. focused on the doctrine of pre-emption, and brushed aside some effects of the law, whose explicit purpose is "attrition through enforcement" by making life so harsh for undocumented immigrants that they would be driven from the state.
Not having a discussion focused on LDS doctrine could have impeded their ability to synthesize their understanding of evolution with LDS beliefs.
By focusing on religious doctrine as an explanation for rape, Americans ignore the presence of sexual abuse and torture in Saddam Hussein's Iraq and in Assad's Syria by the regime and other factions in its vicious ongoing war.
Someone needs to give Palin a history lesson (along with all the other lessons she needs for the myriad areas for which she is woefully ignorant) focusing on the doctrine of Separation of Church and State, which the Founding Fathers very intentionally created to keep government out of religion, and vice versa.
