Sentences with phrase «glbtq celibacy»

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

It was frequently the case that celibacy was almost unknown and the average age of marriage for women was far lower than in western Europe, often close to the attainment of sexual maturity.

It is obvious that priestly celibacy in the RCC is beyond significant stupidity!!!! Then there are all those flaws in the RCC's history and theology.

After all, as he really encouraged celibacy, he must have been totally ignorant of your great insight on the need to preserve society.

It was the first major teaching of his pontificate, and covered adultery, celibacy and virginity, marriage, contraception and the resurrection of the body.

celibacy was not a requirement in German Army.

Personally, even with my disdain for celibacy do not understand how someone could do this just for their sense of, of,...?

Almost two years after racy photos exposed his relationship with a woman and prompted the end of his tenure as a Roman Catholic priest and media star, Albert Cutie on Monday said celibacy is not necessary or particularly healthy for those aiming to heed God's call.

Celibacy is as much a gift as marriage is.

Recognizing this caveat, sinful fornicators quickly resolve to clean up their acts and the pursuit of celibacy is one tool in the salvation toolbox that can fix the problem.

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.

Although there have been claims that child molestation is a result of homosexuality (or of celibacy), there is absolutely no basis in science for either conclusion.

Additionally, if you take a vow of celibacy, then I would think that having s.ex would break that vow, regardless of why you took it in the first place.

He is committed to the path of celibacy, commending it as an essential component of a holy life for those...

Celibacy is no denial of the body, only a leapfrog over to the gift of will for the Creator and Redeemer's use.

But celibacy dramatizes for us that the source of unity in love is the total giving of two wills, focused on the good of the other.

Paul in 1 Cor 7 speaks of the higher calling of celibacy in the same passage you refer to.

A group of cardinals asked for a meeting with the Pope to discuss «celibacy».

Of course, the vast majority of Christians can not embrace celibacy and enter an actual Benedictine monastery.

a church that embraces Celibacy, but says molesting children is OK....

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

The churches stand on birth control to a life of poverty while the Vatican abuses ad covers up abuse of children through the ubiblical practice of celibacy.

It (celibacy) is a virtue to be lived.

He will not, however, commit to a life of celibacy and hopes, «for all my gay brothers and sisters,» that same - sex marriage will someday be an option.

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.

Either that, or priests are forever in question of their vows of celibacy and are standing on the brink of having a torrid affair with a woman.

So now you can witness that RC priests have gotten into one problem after another because the RCC is not honest about celibacy and now you can see MOST RC women do not practice their rules on contraception.

This has nothing to do with celibacy.

This is the love that enflames the person who commits his life, for that Kingdom of Heaven's sake, to celibacy.

another example, a small percentage of Christians are called to sacredotal celibacy, but 99.9 % are encouraged to marry - there is no discrepancy involved, and they are not just some ideas in the bible that we pick and choose between to believe - there is one consistent and variegated holistic understanding off the whole bible to those who can reason well and who have minimal training that churches should be doing in sunday, but mostly are not.

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.

However, assuming that the Pope is true to his vows of celibacy, I really don't see that papal gender orientation is all that important.

(Of course, this tradition is mostly about voluntary celibacy, and there is still a need to think about involuntary celibacy.

To live celibacy well requires in some ways a deeper healing, and a more dramatic inner transformation than opposite sex marriage would require.

One reason for this, I think, is that many Christians thought of marriage as an expression of divine healing, while celibacy was seen as merely settling for a fallen condition.

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

Celibacy is unreasonable and priests have secretly had relationships throughout Catholic history.

The medieval reforms made marriage into a sacrament, a state clearly inferior to celibacy, yet still holy, consensual, and indissoluble.

Celibacy is one of many doctrinal corruptions (and it was already admonished in Revelations)..

In a culture like our own, which exalts sex and disparages celibacy, it is little surprise that many fail when they attempt celibacy without much support from the church, without clear models, and without practical advice in facing the challenges they face.

Igaftr, I have read that before; the who celibacy thing is supposedly voluntary in the first place, and as you've pointed out, is rather untenable for either gay people it hetero.

Priestly celibacy in the RCC is beyond significant stupidity!!!!

Or, you can try celibacy along with staying away from male heathens who speak out id both sides of their mouths, never to take responsibility for their thoughts / beliefs, words or actions as they move on down the road to their next victim as soon as the previous one got pregnant.

But it was very frustrating to discover that all they had to say about celibacy was found in a few platitudes.

Is any man practicing genuine celibacy capable of leading a flock of 100 + million people?

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

Enforced celibacy is a man made doctrine.

Celibacy is difficult; in the monastic tradition, it is always connected with some form of community, with spiritual direction, and with disciplined prayer.

In other words, between two of the most prominent ex-gay books of the 1990s, you got about a couple of blog posts worth of discussion of celibacy, almost none of it directed to practical problems celibates face.

Paul also highly encourages celibacy in 1 Cor 7.