If a gay person wants to get married in
a church by a priest or pastor, the gay rights trumps the Christian doctrine.
A device to stop mobile phones receiving a signal has been installed at
a church by a priest furious... More
The «story» was presented to everyone, including the people of Wittenberg, in
the churches by the priests.
Not exact matches
I left the RC
church (under the counsel of a charasmatic
priest), studied in the ministry's program, and four years later was ordained in a pentacostal
church... pastored
by a woman.
For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian
church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic
church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested
by a
priest.
Other than maybe a justice of the peace any Reverend, preacher or
priest ought to be excommunicated
by the
church.
September 16, 2010 — The pope makes a statement that the Roman Catholic
Church has not been vigilant enough or fast enough in responding to the problem of sexual abuse
by priests.
Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread
Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse
by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»
The Pope doesn't OWN, it Patriarchs don't own it
priests don't own it it is held in trust
by the Catholic
church for the world to enjoy.
It is hard to believe that either new development — the widespread open rebellion against
church sexual teachings
by the laity, or the concomitant quiet rebellion against
church sexual teachings
by a significant number of
priests — could have existed without the other.
There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic
Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered
by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the
priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic
priests were tortured
by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»
The teaching of the
Church does not condone h0m0s3xual acts with pubescent boys
by g @y
priests.
A
priest friend of mine dismissed Doubt without having seen it, saying that he felt the filmmakers caused damage to the public's perception of the
Church merely
by portraying the film's three leads in their clerical outfits next to the title word.
another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger
priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the
church stronger
by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the
church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.
From the religious atrocities of the reformation and the counterreformation, the inquisition, several dozen crusades, to the modern day
Church protecting pedophile
priests, and insisting on no birth control in AIDS ridden countries, and mindless zealots trying to pretend that what has been proven
by science should be subsumed under their fairy tales.
People want an honest answer from their
priests and not something the
priests have been programmed to say
by their
Church leadership.
As for what this
priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten
by the
Church is not true...
«I do not say this in any way to minimize the abuse of minors
by Boston
priests, which is heinous, or the serious mistakes made
by the
Church hierarchy in responding to it,» O'Malley said in the letter.
That could be the new motto of the hierarchy of the Catholic
Church, a plea for an end to the constant drumbeat of stories related to years and years of sexual abuse against boys
by priests.
The
Church's official witness to this covenant - making, the ordained
priest, exercises his unique form of priesthood
by offering the
Church's recognition of, and blessing on, what the couple, in their exercise of the priesthood of the baptized, have covenanted together.
The head of the Catholic
Church in Germany expressed «sadness, horror and shame» Friday that children were abused by priests and church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.&
Church in Germany expressed «sadness, horror and shame» Friday that children were abused
by priests and
church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.&
church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.»
No doubt this is mainly due to the Catholic
Church's policy of keeping its sins secret
by protecting them since the early
Church policy of preventing
priests from marrying.
Finally, has «The
Church» completed its investigations into child abuse
by priests, and turned over all evidence and probable abusers to the appropriate civic authorities?
Buddhist monks and Taoist
priests hired
by the officials came to chant and perform rites in front of the
church.
«This case has brought to the surface yet another paedophile
priest who was never investigated or exposed
by the
church or the police.»
The abuse perpetrated
by priests is atrocious and hurts Catholics (meaning THE PEOPLE who make up the
Church) deeply but that does not given anyone the right to paint every
priest the same color!
The abuse perpetrated
by priests is atrocious and hurts Catholics (meaning THE PEOPLE who make up the
Church) deeply but that does not given anyone the right to paint every
priest the with the same brush of pedophile!
Good he has experience, he can start
by bouncing all the pervert
priests out of the Roman Catholic
Church for a start.
I share my talents generously to my
church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my
church, instituting new worship programs (as my
priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction»
by this same person.
In studying the methods and message of St John Paul as
priest and bishop, we can apply them to our own situation — that is why the lives of saints are held up to us
by the
Church — and we should do so with gratitude to God for this example.
Because of the plentiful supply of
priests at Faith movement activities use of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion is never appropriate, even
by our local
Church's, creative interpretation of the relevant recently updated norms.
Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and
priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession
by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic
church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.
What about the tens of thousands of your pedophile
priests protected
by your pedophile infested
church who have raped countless children throughout the centuries and continuing to this day?
In fairly short order, a community of laymen, lay women and
priests dedicated to Our Lady were given permission
by the
Church to live together in poverty, chastity and obedience.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican's representative to bishops in Ireland warns them to follow
church law in investigating cases of suspected child sex abuse
by priests and expresses «serious reservations» about requiring that such cases be reported to the police.
Moreover, they claim that celibacy was never really essential to being a
priest but was a later addition imposed
by the
Church.
A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the
Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women
priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century
by resigning.
I'm a catholic, but i do not abide
by the
church not doing anything about the pedophile
priest, and lying and moving them from one parish to another.
Afterwards he was accompanied
by Fernando Sáenz, a Spanish Opus Dei
priest who was a close friend of his and who would later succeed him as archbishop, to the
church where he was to celebrate Mass..
The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse
by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»
Church today is like Jericho complaining that the Good Samaritan had shown up a day late and a dollar short while the
priest and the Levite who'd left the victim on the roadside had done the proper thing
by hurrying on to their destination instead of helping out.
And the abuse
by others somehow excuses abuse
by priests and the systemic cover up
by church charlatans, sorry, leaders?
Although the twentieth century was often proclaimed
by the
church to be the «Age of the Laity,» it remains true that most Catholic discourse is still taken up with the words of popes, bishops,
priests, and sisters.
That was something taught to me right from the beginning
by my parents, my teachers, and the
priests and nuns at the
church I attended as a child.
yeah i guess u r right all those 1000s and tens of 1000s of kids who were abused
by priests and other
church officials believe the same, eh?
We need not perhaps introduce the election of parish
priests by the laity such as has been and still is the custom in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland, without the divine constitution of the
Church being thereby endangered.
Bolles is himself an Episcopal
priest; this ministry arose out of a project he was asked to do
by the national Episcopal
Church to help
priests who were «becoming civilians.»
Catholics from across the world pour into the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Friday night ahead of the annual Funeral Procession lead
by Franciscan
priests.
We would not, however, assert that a true «democratization» of the
Church would exist automatically and certainly if parish
priests or bishops were elected
by the people, and this election could no longer be the sole right of the authorities.
What do individual crimes committed
by individual
priests have to do with a
church wanting stolen property back?