Sentences with phrase «celibate priesthood»

An eloquent defender of the celibate priesthood, Fr.

«A five - year study commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to provide a definitive answer to what caused the church's sexual abuse crisis has concluded that neither the all - male celibate priesthood nor homosexuality were to blame.

He writes: «The instruction's call to affective maturity as a necessary condition for a healthy celibate priesthood and religious life affirms the long - standing goal of our formation program — both initial and continuing.

Various elements of tradition seem nonessential, such as male celibate priesthood and biblical cosmology.

In bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the

Catholics who fear the celibate priesthood is attracting too high a proportion of gay men should look at what is happening — what in fact has been institutionalized — at interdenominational and mainline Protestant seminaries.

Not exact matches

That is why celibate «gays» are allowed in the priesthood but s.exually active gays are banned.

LIke the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, the Church accepted what were to be CELIBATE homosexual men into the priesthood.

-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.

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.

An example of this would be the celibate - only rule for the priesthood.

When the priesthood of the church became open to celibate males only, they wanted a woman who would not threaten their virtuous calling.

And the children will just go on being abused by the all - male «celibate» priesthood.