Sentences with phrase «priests abandoned the churches»

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The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

Early signs have been troubling, as when a Moscow Patriarchate priest tried to take possession of a Kyivan Patriarchate church on a naval base that the Ukrainians abandoned.

ISTM that the Church has abandoned its mission to the world and set up an ecclesiastic subculture of priests and levites, where it is all about serving in the temple / church while the world is left to its own fate without the leavening / seasoning of Church has abandoned its mission to the world and set up an ecclesiastic subculture of priests and levites, where it is all about serving in the temple / church while the world is left to its own fate without the leavening / seasoning of church while the world is left to its own fate without the leavening / seasoning of faith.