hierarchy of truths

How seriously do we now take their right to know - or are we underwriting a hierarchy of truths which we find convenient?

The magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church are graded according to a "hierarchy of truths".

It should be linked with the equally remarkable assertion that there exists within doctrine 'a hierarchy of truths'(Unitatis Redintegratio 11).

Just as there is a hierarchy of being, so is there a hierarchy of truths which need to be discovered and explored in all aspects of human endeavour.

Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality highlights some of Catholicism's best kept secrets: the primacy of a fully informed personal conscience, the hierarchy of truths, and the development of doctrine.

Indeed, we may do well to think of the `hierarchy of truths' oft-quoted in ecumenical dialogues, whereby some issues are recognised as being of overriding importance while others are accepted as being relatively trivial.

In a sense, these people are right: the Church has always recognized that there is a "hierarchy of truths"--that some parts of our faith (the Trinity, the Resurrection, the necessity of baptism) are far more essential to our salvation than others.