Sentences with phrase «duties as priests»

In court documents, Thomas Linden QC said the decisions were taken on the grounds Canon Pemberton had «publicly flouted the doctrines of the Church on marriage, whereas his duty as a priest was to exemplify them».

But Popieluszko continued to be very close to the workers and he believed this to be his duty as a priest.

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If a priest is the headmaster of a school does his duties to the school as an administrator count as time divided from his service to God?

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...

Their specific duties are not important; as with priests, it is what they are, not what they do that is significant for the life of the Church» (pp341 - 342).

Although I'm a somewhat spotty attender of church, I really like our priest because he does preach against greed, the wars, and about our duty (both as individuals and as a nation) to care for those who are in need, the sick, the very young and the very old.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

In the Catholic tradition an ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a minister, with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.

The duty of the priests is to discipline the common worship life of the people so that it conforms as closely as possible to what has been prescribed as «proper» liturgical practice by the church hierarchy.

Is the «priest - penitent privilege» properly invoked when there is no pastor - parish setting in which confession is a religious duty incumbent upon priest and penitent, when the «penitents» are not necessarily members of the priest's denomination, when there is no «confession» as such, and when the clergyman is asked to divulge not the content of a confession, but, as the legal briefs say, observations made by him «incident thereto»?

An exception to this rigorous rule might have been the duty to give evidence in court concerning a crime which a priest learned about in the confessional; but as the civil law of evidence developed, it included a privilege for the priest against being compelled to reveal anything told to him under the «seal of the confessional.»

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

We believe that the priests of Pantu Baba, known collectively as the Elders or the Old Ones or the Saggy Ones or the Vicious Self - Righteous Blowhards, are to be accorded all manner of honor praise and renumeration in keeping with their great and glorious duty of honoring praising and renumerating Pantu Baba, the Vile, the Irascible, the Arbitrary, Patron of All Who Need Patronizing.

Formerly the clergy had been «priests,» finding their primary responsibility at the altar; now they were «ministers,» with preaching and pastoral care as their pre-eminent duties.

The plaintiff, known only as James C. Doe in court records, alleges the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George «breached the duties of reasonable care» when they allowed Daniel McCormack to become a priest in the first place.