Sentences with phrase «celibacy among»

Compulsory celibacy among Catholic priests contributed to child sexual abuse in Australia and local church leaders should ask the Vatican to consider What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex.

They also hold the record for celibacy among animals: All 460 known species of bdelloids consist exclusively of egg - laying females that have essentially been cloning themselves for 100 million years.

In fairness, however, to this view and to voluntary celibacy among Protestants where this is found, it should be clear that the divine vocation, or calling, is not the same for all persons.

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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.

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

And, of course, among Roman Catholics, both because of the cultural stereotype that Catholicism is sexually repressive and because of the celibacy requirement for priests and members of religious orders.

Among the latter, I know some who act on that attraction and others who have chosen celibacy.

Thus celibacy causes pedophilia, magisterial authority entails mindlessness among the faithful, and Pope Francis» challenge to capitalism invites a sullen and impoverished Stalinism.

Even among those who have not been entirely scandalised the celibacy, the commitment to prayer, the obedience to authority and the lack of status and financial remuneration stand in stark contrast to everything they have been taught to value.

Encourage celibacy in your place of worship for the LGBTQ folk among you.

The predominant view among non-affirming Christians regarding gay and lesbian Christians is that if they wish to remain faithful to Scripture, they must pursue celibacy.

Dr. Adam Clarke, speaking of this remarkable proceeding says: — «God caused the animals to pass before Adam to show him that no creature yet formed could make him a suitable companion; that Adam was convinced that none of these animals could be a suitable companion for him, and that therefore he must continue in a state that was not good (celibacy) unless he became a further debtor to the bounty of his maker, for among all the animals which he had formed, there was not a helpmeet for Adam.»