Sentences with phrase «done by priests»

You make it sound like it had to have been all done by priests.

There is no greater sin, then what has been done by priests during the late 70's and early 80's.

What was done by the priests was absolutely wrong and deserving of punishment by the law, but if they were allowed to do what is natural and sanctioned in Gods word things may be different.

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

Not exact matches

Further, it doesn't have to be administered by a priest or a pastor.

have you considered that by the priest's own definition, refusing communion was possibly the most compassionate thing he could do?

What the priest did was in direct conflict with everything I was taught by two different orders of nuns and more than one Jesuit priest.

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.

reborners, everyone of them, is absolutely clueless, brainwashed, has a book do all their thinking, reparded, is an imbecile, indoctrinated, duped by his parents, abused by priests, hates almost everyone, is a hypocrite, unthinking, addicted to religion, closed - minded, untrustworthy, greedy, two - faced, cheap, shallow, biased, republican, racist, uneducated, materialistic, boring, bland, judgmental, w / o love and knowledge of the bible, child abusing abortionists and genocidal cowboys and pro-slavery

By most, do you mean > 50 %, or the actual 4 % of the active 110,000 priest between 1950 and 1992.

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.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

I read an interesting article that research was done on the Bible by Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman, an Episcopal priest.

If child abuse was a disease, and if religion did not get a free pass on criminal acts, child abuse by rcc priests would be classed as a pandemic.

The teaching of the Church does not condone h0m0s3xual acts with pubescent boys by g @y priests.

The bishops have put priests in an impossible situation, by means of provisions that they do not apply to themselves.

Where do you stand on priest and young alterboys that get them later in life paid millions for the special attention paid by them special priest?

«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.

Most Americans - and most American Catholics - think Pope Benedict XVI has done a bad job of dealing with the problem of sexual abuse by Catholics priests, according to a new national poll.

Did you think of this all by yourself, OR HAVE YOU HEARD IT FROM YOUR PRIEST?

YOU may be a jewish priest, but I am not, and the laws for such ancient priests do not apply to, not are they adhered to by, ANY Christians today.

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!

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

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!

Talking about abuse, what about the abuse done to children by priests for years?

Firstly, I do condemn any criminal action by anyone, whether a priest or not.

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.

We do know that it was introduced in the West in the 1970s by Chilean psychiatrists, then adopted by Jesuit priests and popularized in 1992 by Franciscan spiritual director Richard Rohr's Discovering the Enneagram: An Ancient Tool for a New Spiritual Journey.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

In 1971, British child psychoanalyst D. W Winnicott was approached by Anglican priests and asked to solve the following dilemma: How does one distinguish between a person's need for spiritual counsel and the need for psychoanalysis?

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.

I do accept that he was a radical religious teacher of the first century, who seriously annoyed Caiaphas the high priest, and was executed by Pontius Pilate, at the behest of the Sanhedrin.

Most of the Anglo - Catholic clergy who stayed in their ghetto did so because of their refusal to leave their people behind: asone Anglican priest who had attempted to take his Parish to Rome and had been repulsed by his local Catholic bishop put it to me, the essential was that «Rome has got to have a more creative view of the corporate nature of our present existence».

Leslie, I don't doubt AT ALL that virtually every Catholic that hears about their priests abusing children is sickened by the news.

Very little is said about that while great attention is given the very small percentage done by Catholic priests.

And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.

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.

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.

Parishoners do NOT stick by their accused priests.

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.»

What do individual crimes committed by individual priests have to do with a church wanting stolen property back?

Still, though, this is the same group that screams «Cafeteria Catholic» at those that want them to accept Abortion, birth control, men doing it with other men, priests marrying and by that I mean doing it with Adult Women....

«Kicanas knew about serious accusations of child sexual abuse and misconduct by a Chicago priest but «did little or nothing to report these allegations to police, warn parents about him, or protect children from him,»» the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said.

If they didn't find a couple willing to adopt the unborn child by the end of day, they would abort it, according to the priest.

Even in the general media, scandal stories are typically accompanied by an acknowledgment of the fine work done by most priests in helping the poor, providing shelters and soup kitchens for the homeless, and so forth.

Nor, can you vote for the Mormon high priest whose opinion on abortion changes direction like the wind!!!!! Don't be deceived by this wicked and greedy man's lies.

They don't want to keep a bunch of aging women on the payroll, because they are so broke from defending lawsuits necessitated by child - molesting, rapist priests.