Sentence examples for merciful approach from inspiring English sources

While the current front-runner evinces little compassion on this front, his likeliest rival did once advocate (before disowning it) a more merciful approach to "illegal immigrants".

Kasper, with the encouragement of Francis, last February opened the debate with a lengthy lecture to the world's cardinals in which he said the church could and should adopt a more merciful approach to Catholics living in unorthodox relationships.

The European experience offers plenty of cautionary tales — from the spread of less-than-voluntary euthanasia in the suicide-accepting Netherlands, to the recent controversy over Great Britain's "Liverpool Care Pathway," whose supposedly-merciful approach to dying patients may involve withdrawing care before their death is actually certain.

"The document clearly reflects Pope Francis's desire to adopt a more merciful pastoral approach on marriage and family issues," he said.

"The document clearly reflects Pope Francis' desire to adopt a more merciful pastoral approach on marriage and family issues," he said.

The battle lines were basically drawn over what it means for the church to be pastoral and merciful in its approach to people who are not living in accord with the Christian ideal of the intact, nuclear family.

In recent decades, the diocese in Springfield had worked to coordinate a merciful yet careful approach to marriage.

The document reflects the pope's bid to make the Catholic Church focus on a merciful rather than ideological approach to its followers and suggests that conservative defenders of doctrine have been in the minority at the synod.

Though there's a merciful lull on the approach to Station Road, site of both the robbery and a small cluster of pubs that I hope will house the sort of folk who remember both the events of May , 1958and Port Talbot's glory days, and might just be willing to talk about them.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Chancery offered a more flexible approach than the rigid common law system, says Bevan, "looking at a case individually and coming up with a merciful solution that fits the facts".