Over the past 30 yr, doctoral and postdoctoral training at research institutions has put a tremendous emphasis on research, immersing students in the culture of research for a scientific discipline, while often ignoring teaching (Fairweather et al., 1996; Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, 2002).
But New York's Catholics, while admiring the pope and O'Connor, mostly ignore their teaching on contraception, and many would like a softer attitude to gays and women priests.
He says Catholics, "especially ministers and others who represent the Church, should not participate in or be present at religious events or events intended to endorse or support those who reject or ignore Church teaching and Canon Law".
The assessment concluded that the leadership conference had hosted speakers who "often contradict or ignore" church teaching; had never revoked a statement from 1977 that questioned the male-only priesthood, and focused their efforts on serving the poor and disenfranchised, while remaining virtually silent on issues the church considers great societal evils: abortion and same-sex marriage.
Computers and mathematical models are only as good as the data that are fed into them; what they don't measure is the unforeseen sudden and dramatic spikes or dips in interest rates and the once-in-a-lifetime gyrations that the oddsmakers tell us to ignore but history teaches us occur all the time.
It also ignores the teaching that takes place on college campuses every day.
His committee's statement made clear that the bishops were aware of the extent to which American Catholics had long ignored church teaching on contraception.
Fernández and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, who preceded her in office, have ignored Catholic teaching to introduce a series of measures such as the legalisation of same-sex marriages in 2010.
To relax his prohibition on contraception would not save any lives (since such couples are ignoring his teaching anyway); it could, however, endanger them - by implying that the church no longer disapproves of extra-marital sex.
Even though the former president ignored Catholic teaching on the death penalty and other social justice issues, conservative Catholics were not found protesting his presence.
