Sentences with phrase «about celibacy»

In Matthew 19:11 - 12, when Jesus spoke about celibacy he said, «Not everyone can accept [the decision not to marry], but only those to whom it has been given.

@ gerald said, «This only shows how little you know about celibacy.»

This only shows how little you know about celibacy.

The throw back is usually «well why do you have to be so negative about celibacy.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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.

-LSB-... this] ought not be surprising — except to those who carry a burden of false assumptions about love, celibacy, and their relationship... As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity for love as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life in service to others.

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.

Similarly, I am unhappy about Papal ditherings over clerical celibacy and the use of contraceptives.

If you read about Paul's comments on celibacy it is a rare «calling» and not something one is forced into because the church decides this is how you should conduct yourself.

That's the point; you can, and people have, used Christianity to justify just about everything, including capital punishment, abolishing capital punishment, the murder of abortion doctors, opposing all murder, endorsing state sponsored assassination of enemies of the nation, becoming rich, giving away all your property, marriage, celibacy, hating Jews, wanting to support Jews, and a bunch of other things.

(Straight people, you would think, would also think about this — as some are called to celibacy — but there's just an assumption that everyone will pair up in the end.)

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

His point about Jesus makes a lot of sense to me, and it forced me to confront a patronizing sense of pity, perhaps even condescension, I have for Christians who have, for whatever reason, chosen celibacy.

There's been a lot of writing in the gay, celibate Christian blogosphere lately about unchosen celibacy, and learning to accept lifelong unmarriage as a gift — however much you wish the returns policy were more generous.

What I find puzzling is the obsession with consensual and faithful gay relationships when Scripture says much more about divorce and remarriage (every single sex act with a second spouse is ALWAYS adultery unless someone is unfaithful and that the only moral choice is reconciliation with your first spouse or lifetime celibacy — 1 Cor 7:10 - 11), charging interest on a loan, our moral obligation toward the poor and other things most conservative Christians ignore.

Less is recorded from the lips of Jesus than the pen of Paul about sex relations, but it is unlikely that our Lord ever expected celibacy to be exalted as the pattern of life for the «religious,» as is the practice of the Roman Catholic Church.

Many point to peculiarities of the Catholic Church (its celibacy rules for priests, its insular hierarchy, its exclusion of women) to infer that there's something particularly pernicious about Catholic clerics that predisposes them to these horrific acts....

She said she is heartbroken and angry about the Vatican's doctrinal assessment that the leadership group representing most American nuns has been challenging the church's doctrine on homosexuality, the male - only priesthood, artificial birth control, celibacy and abortion.

«When we study biblical writings about marriage and celibacy the question is not whether Jesus, Paul, or anyone else endorses same - sex marriage,» he writes, «or whether they instead enjoin gay people to lifelong celibacy.

What the heck does someone who's taken a vow of celibacy know about how to build a successful marriage?

I appreciated Patricia's Snow's essay about the high and holy vocation of celibacy.

About a dozen Italian women have posted an open letter to the pope on the internet in which they claim to have had intimate relationships with priests and urge the church to abolish celibacy for Catholic clergy.

He waxed eloquent about the nuns who did not have true vocation to celibacy — and the monks: «Unless she is in a high and unusual state of grace a young woman can do without a man as little as she can do without eating, drinking, sleeping or other natural requirements.

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.

In a few matters, we do not speak with one voice: We hold somewhat different views about the morality of contraception, the legitimacy of divorce, and clerical celibacy.

The celibacy of the priesthood is about a particular form of loving.

She blogs about all things sexuality, celibacy, community, and (mostly) flourishing on her personal blog and with friends on the Spiritual Friendship blog.

Celibacy is a spiritual state of mind and is about the love of self.

Nicki Minaj plays coy about Nas dating rumors, vows to stay celibate for a year There are many wonderful celibacy benefits obviously not widely known nor fully appreciated, especially when dedicated to a pure lifestyle of wholeness.

Into Great Silence (Die Grosze Stille) DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Offers Rare Peak at Monastic Life Who would ever think that you could make a movie about an order of self - effacing monks who «ve taken not only a vow of celibacy, but also of silence?

As with Berg's film and HBO's television documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012), which explore similar cases in Northern California and Wisconsin, Spotlight raises questions about Church - run «treatment centres» and the role of wider celibacy issues on its attitude to self - preservation.

The movie is droll on the subject of a reluctantly celibate man seeking advice from a man who's taken a vow of celibacy, but serious about O'Brien's religous inquiry.

The Good Catholic (PG - 13 for profanity and a sexual reference) Romantic comedy about an idealistic, young priest (Zachary Spicer) whose vow of celibacy is tested when he develops a fondness for a parishioner (Wrenn Schmidt) while taking her confession.

Was Jesus gay article from The Guardian April 2012 - followed by passages about Jesus and Celibacy from the Srichinmoy library site

Francis would do well to rid the Vatican of homosexuals and pedophiles, correct the many unscriptural errors in Roman theology — Mariolatry and the celibacy of priests, for example, read his Bible, and set about fulfilling the mission of the Church Universal.

Now about the Church, priests, celibacy and real estate.