Sentences with phrase «celibacy rules»

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....

If a person has inappropriate urges (by that I don't mean gay, this is Pedophilia folks) they could see the church and it's celibacy rules as a kind of sanctuary where they may feel they can hide from their problem & hope God cures them.

It is frequently being said now that the celibacy rule is a late - medieval imposition aimed at protecting the Church's property from nepotism.

The celibacy rule is grounded in the words and example of Jesus, Paul, and the earliest apostolic churches.

A subtheme of the Rose book is that some bishops actually want to intensify the vocations crisis in order to promote the abandonment of the celibacy rule and the ordination of women.

Others were assured that the celibacy rule would be abandoned within a few years.

From a purely statistical viewpoint, it no doubt was exaggerated, and for various reasons: e.g., raw anti-Catholicism in the media, a continuing campaign within the Church against the celibacy rule, and an effort to exclude or remove homosexuals from the priesthood.

There needs to be a place in the modern Catholic church for a married priesthood, said Daly, a prominent figure in the Catholic church in Ireland and the most senior Irish cleric to question the Vatican's celibacy rule.

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN)- A respected former Catholic bishop in Ireland is calling for an end to clerical celibacy in the wake of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church worldwide, and says he finds it «heartbreaking» that some prospective priests turn away from the calling because of the celibacy rule.

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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.

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.

It will always be hard to defend the rule of compulsory celibacy in the face of scandals and confusion.

In 305, the Synod of Elvira in Spain demanded celibacy of bishops and other clergy, and this came to be the rule in the Western church.

In line with the tradition, he defended clerical celibacy, ruled out contraception, and firmly opposed the ordination of women.

In 386 Pope Siricius reinforced the rule of celibacy, a measure reaffirmed by Innocent I (d. 417) and Leo the Great (d. 461).

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

Pope Liberius of Rome seems to have imposed celibacy on the clergy of Italy, and Siricius of Rome, who left his own wife to become pope, confirmed this ruling c. 380 AD.

Since the rule for priestly celibacy and non-marriage is only 400 years old in a church over 2,000 years old, this might be an indicator that the Church may revisit the unmarried priest rule.

And to assert, without offering evidence, that Catholicism's rules on clerical celibacy have themselves caused the sex abuse crisis — a crisis that has, no doubt, many causes — is not what one expects from a judge.

However, several societies of clergy bound by rules which include vows of celibacy (usually not formally lifelong, but taken for a period with the expectation of renewal), have been founded, such as the Oblates of Mount Calvary in America, associated with the Order of the Holy Cross, and the recently organized Company of Mission Priests in England.21

Once you recover, you'll never go back; in fact, with the sign of the Virgin ruling your love jones, you can maintain long bouts of celibacy between partners.