Sentences with phrase «celibacy by»

As translator of The Spirit of Celibacy by Johann Adam Mohler, I was delighted to note the attention Murphy pays to his thinking.

This did not give the Church an «interim ethic» for the relatively short remaining time in the sense made famous by Schweitzer in The Quest of the Historical Jesus, though it did lead to counsels of celibacy by Paul, and still more to injunctions to readiness in view of the sudden, unknown hour of the coming of the day of the Lord (I Thess.

For more on the same topic, see The Gift of Celibacy by Jeremy Erickson.]

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Fertility levels were influenced by many factors other than age at marriage and celibacy levels.

The distinctness of the sacerdotal role gets reinforced by the discipline of celibacy, which is intuitively (and rightly) interpreted as a rejection of the world's rules for human flourishing.

For the young priest and later pope, even celibacy is understood in the light of matrimony, the sacrament by which the Creator revealed to humankind the communio of His own nature.

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

Both, by the way the RCC sees it, go against the whole celibacy thing.

The phrase «celibacy syndrome» is the translation of a malady that was identified by the Japanese media, not....

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

How much less likely are gays and lesbians to remain celibate when celibacy is imposed on them by others?

Cardinal Stickler in his The Case for Clerical Celibacy (first published 1993, English edition Ignatius, 1995) summed up the crisis as not only priests renouncing their ministry and fewer vocations but also a «profound secularization» by many who stay in active ministry (p. 85).

The church tries to get around the issue by attempting to somehow separate the individual from who they are and thereby maintain the right to openly condemn them and / or seek to impose a life of celibacy and deny them the same rights of love, marriage, and family they themselves enjoy.

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

We would expect to see greater levels of abuse amongst groups in which celibacy is a normal way of life (such as Catholic priests), and by extension lower levels of abuse in groups in which celibacy is unusual.

There were three types of Man described: ones who chose celibacy to dedicate themselves to God's service, such as monks, priests, or nuns; those castrated by others, these are traditional eunuchs; and those who were «born that way.»

Though Protestant ethics supports marriage for clergy, still celibacy must not be despised any more than marriage by any Christian body.

Moreover, they claim that celibacy was never really essential to being a priest but was a later addition imposed by the Church.

Celibacy is not simply the absence of sex but a spiritual discipline, by which we learn to place God, sex, and Christian community in the right perspective and understand the value of controlling sexual desires.

I do not know what to make of the fact that the discussion of the fulfillment of the human person through being joined with a person of the opposite sex in marriage is not followed by a discussion of celibacy.

By properly defining celibacy and chastity, the authors present a healthy and freeing framework for the Christian single and married alike.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

Proof that pedofilia is a malady across society, not the exclusive disease of the church, nor is it caused by celibacy.

Celibacy came quickly to be prized by the church.

Thus in the modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

When an Orthodox turns his eyes westward he sees what appears to him a Church distorted by innovation and error: the filioque clause, the pope's absolute primatial authority, purgatory, indulgences, priestly celibacy.

In 386 Pope Siricius reinforced the rule of celibacy, a measure reaffirmed by Innocent I (d. 417) and Leo the Great (d. 461).

At the same time, and as the NRB rightly notes, there are undoubtedly in the priesthood many men afflicted by same - sex attractions who are nonetheless good and faithful priests living lives of chaste celibacy.

After a prayer by Thomas and the appearance of Jesus to the bride and bridegroom, they decided to forego marriage and live in celibacy.

In short, the choice for Christian clerics is either the perfection of celibacy, or marriage adorned by the procreation of children.

Abstinence and celibacy are totally unnatural, and they are absurd non-solutions to a non-problem that religion invented by its ignorance.

At the very least celibacy (by choice or not) would result in less reproduction.

the Gay Christian Network, a wonderful group that provides fellowship and resources to gay Christians, both those who feel they are free in Christ to pursue relationships with the members of the same sex and those who feel they are compelled by Christ to pursue celibacy.

'' «Our pastoral practice of demanding life - long «celibacy,» by which we meant that for the rest of your life you would not engage your sexual orientation in any way, was causing obvious harm and has not led to human flourishing,» the letter said.

Most of them, to judge by what I've seen of them and their advance notices, are by authors who want to change the subject - to what's wrong with church teaching on sexuality, to celibacy, to women's ordination, to democratizing decision making, to anything but fidelity.

According to a letter written by senior pastor Fred Harrell on behalf of the Board of Elders, «We will no longer discriminate based on sexual orientation and demand lifelong celibacy as a precondition for joining.

I surveyed the rapidly accumulating literature in support of the significance of the homosexuality factor, and criticized those who try to change the subject by advocating the relaxation of the discipline of celibacy.

«Commitment» and «intimacy» are in (helped by the scourges of herpes and AIDS), and celibacy is again a respectable option.

I didn't want to volunteer to shut out romantic love from my life — the beautiful union of physical and spiritual intimacy that straight people took for granted as a potential blessing life might grant them — by committing to celibacy, and I thought the positive, self - loving thing to do was to accept myself.

The second element of the gospel story that Wesley says puts his celibacy in perspective is a God who is «known by his threat to our going on with «business and usual.

If a person has inappropriate urges (by that I don't mean gay, this is Pedophilia folks) they could see the church and it's celibacy rules as a kind of sanctuary where they may feel they can hide from their problem & hope God cures them.

Matthew 19 provides hope for LGBTQ by defining the state of celibacy and honoring that state as part of their lives.

In addition to clashes over liberation theology, Vatican authorities have continued to uphold official teaching on sexual ethics in general (as in a 1986 statement on homosexuality by Cardinal Ratzinger) and have withstood calls even for an open discussion of women's ordination or of ending celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood.

What I was trying to argue in my article was this: the celibacy to which some are called by special vocation and the chastity to which all are called by baptism are not two distinct things.

If it wishes, by all means let it impose the most radical form of celibacy only on monastics and religious.

They have done this by retaining the very clear connection between celibacy and monastic life which is simply the life of all the baptized lived to its radical conclusion.

For gays / lesbians who see their sexual orientation as incompatible with their faith, I think celibacy is a good option that should be more seriously embraced and celebrated by the Church.

Matthew concludes that «the purpose of celibacy is to affirm the basic goodness of sex and marriage by pointing to the relationship they prefigure: the union of Christ and the church.

Celibacy being poorly handled by a few priests?

This is why any suggestion that Humanae Vitae is still valid, or that celibacy for the priesthood still makes sense, or that handing out condoms might not be the best way of combating AIDS, is treated not just with contempt but with thinly disguised rage, not only by self - confessed secularists but by nominally Catholic journals such as The Tablet.