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The theology on the body is a broad term for Catholic teachings on the human body. The dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , defined in Pope Pius XII's 1950 apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus , is one of the most recent developments in the Catholic theology of the body.
Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...
Dissident Catholic moral theologian Charles E. Curran, writing in his book The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II, says the pope's Wednesday audiences are unlikely to have been understood by many of those present at the time: "Quite frankly, the talks do not seem appropriate for the occasion. They are somewhat theoretical and too detailed for ...
"If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ – which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church [4] – we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression 'the Mystical Body of Christ' – an expression which springs from and is, as it were, the fair flowering of the repeated teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers."
Smith is known in Catholic circles as an expert on Humanae Vitae and on Pope John Paul II's teaching on marriage and family life ("Theology of the Body"). She is a popular public speaker about Catholic teaching on sexuality and on bioethics.
A report by the Catholic Theological Society of America found the Ethical and Religious Directives to be legalistic, inapplicable to concrete situations, and inferior to the Canadian Medico-Moral Guide. The report strongly disagreed that local bishops should possess "sole ultimate authority" to evaluate the morality of new scientific ...
The phrase sanctity of life refers to the idea that humans are sacred, holy, and precious. Although the phrase was used primarily in the 19th century in Protestant discourse, since World War II the phrase has been used in Catholic moral theology and, following Roe v. Wade, Evangelical Christian moral rhetoric. [4]
Veritatis splendor (Latin: The Splendor of the Truth) is an encyclical by Pope John Paul II.It expresses the position of the Catholic Church regarding fundamentals of the Church's role in moral teaching.