Sentences with phrase «chaste celibacy»

Thus the instruction is not so much concerned with what might be called personality types but with people who act or are likely to act in ways clearly incompatible with living a life of chaste celibacy.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

Taking its foundation instead from the classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity — and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.

Apparently under pressure from OutRage, David Hope, Anglican Bishop of London, has publicly declared his «ambiguous sexuality,» while averring that he has lived a life of chaste celibacy.

At the same time, and as the NRB rightly notes, there are undoubtedly in the priesthood many men afflicted by same - sex attractions who are nonetheless good and faithful priests living lives of chaste celibacy.

«the classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity - and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.»

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One of the catechesis's virtues is the way it treats not only sex but also celibacy as open to this giving — and not just the celibacy of professed religious but the far more common celibacy of those who are unmarried but seeking to live chaste lives.