Sentences with phrase «celibacy even»

However, it is unlikely that we could bridge the cultural gap and choose as compass someone who was an ascetic and a vegetarian and who promoted celibacy even in marriage for the sake of spiritual growth.

But look at the scores of Catholic priests who have not been able to maintain celibacy even though they took vows to observe it.

Not exact matches

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

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.

The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.

In addition, there is the value of temporary, deliberately chosen periods of celibacy, of solitude, of concentration on an important task, even periods of silence.

The book is thoroughly revisionist from A to Z, flying in the face of the Church's teaching on contraception, celibacy, chastity, homosexuality, and even» albeit more delicately» on bestiality.

Sexual exploitation of the unborn, the new born and youth of both sexes, together with the fact that even free men and women were expected to marry (usually arranged) and bear and rear children as a duty to empire and family, meant for many Christians that the only route to personal liberty led through the «freedom» of celibacy.

To be sure, that is little comfort for those who believe that even one priest breaking his vow of celibacy, with a man or a woman, is cause for grave concern.

The priest celibacy issue is the only item even on the agenda, but without female clergy, birth control and acceptance of gay relationships they haven't got a hope in the modern world.

L.W. Brown observes, «The great stress on celibacy as a way of salvation, and the emphasis on the miraculous are not in themselves proof of a non-Catholic origin for the Acts, as even in the time of Aphrates only the unmarried could be baptized in Edessa.»

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.

With due respect for Father Neuhaus» human compassion, I submit that even if the priest were guilty of nothing more than harboring sexual lust in his heart toward a male or female of any age, the priest ought to have immediately recognized that he had not been given the gift of celibacy, and thus had badly misjudged his ability to keep his ordination vows.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

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.

Celibacy of the priesthood in the Catholic church only became a requirement (to some degree) in the 3rd century and even later according to some.

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.

One could not justify holding people to a vow of celibacy, even a voluntary one:

This stance is regularly presupposed even by Protestants who do not otherwise have any use for the vocation of celibacy (e.g., Billy Graham).

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.

[28] Celibacy is far from a rejection of the deep meaning of sexuality, but a living of human sexuality which is even fuller, more profound and complimentary to the extent that it explains the married vocation.

Although low - fat food products are marketed as «healthy» and even «sexy,» many of them were first invented as aids to celibacy.

I'm already dreading my month of shopping celibacy but I know I'll be happier in Paris if I have a little wiggle room and can splurge on a cute pair of shoes or even a vintage piece to remember my trip by.

So when Sir Walter Raleigh returns from an expedition and entrances the Virgin Queen with stories of his discoveries and how he named Virginia for her, even the most uncommon of girls — a middle - aged queen who, decades ago, vouchsafed her celibacy for the good of her people — is likely to be caught in a bit of a swoon.

While celibacy is clearly not advocated, neither is sleeping around or even dating, both of which are depicted as depressing and immature.