Sentences with phrase «celibate chastity»

It is this conclusion that has been met with questioning among some reputable U.S. Catholic moral theologians and among a number of gay and lesbian Catholics in the U.S. Still, there is a growing movement in this country of support groups like Courage for Catholics, which are attempting to adhere to the church's requirement of celibate chastity.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

It's no surprise then, that when the John Jay report (cited in the following answer) examined the causes of sexual abuse, it reported that «it is not clear why the commitment to or state of celibate chastity should be seen as a cause for the steady rise in incidence of sexual abuse between 1950 and 1980».

He will then go on to explain what following this call will mean: a life of charity, lived out in celibate chastity, in obedience to him and his successors and nourished and strengthened in prayer, focused especially on Our Lord in the Eucharist.

Not exact matches

Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.

While the Bible calls all Christians to chastity, it also holds up the celibate life as one honorable vocation in light of the example of our Lord himself and his teaching that there are some who are «eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven» (Matt.