Sentences with phrase «gays as our priests»

This includes accepting gays as our priests and bishops as well as women.

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This being said, when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements of Scripture.

Pope Francis has ministered to gay and transgender people before as a priest, bishop and pontiff.

Because girls are rarely involved and some think gay dudes can hide in society easier as a priest.

There should be a gay lobby in the Vatican to represent the many Catholics who are gay, as well as the gay priests, who hold ranks up to Cardinal.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

And at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.

If we put to death all those who are Gay or have committed Adultry as the Bible says, we would loose half of the pasters, priest, politicians and Society including half his congregation.

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.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner has lost an Appeal... More

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge over his claim he was discriminated against.

A gay priest who was prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner has urged senior judges to find he suffered discrimination.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the... More

Both gay and straight priests, as well as former seminarians, acknowledge that, as many priests left to marry, the proportion of priests who were gay increased dramatically, and in some places, gay subcultures flourished.

I think a lot of people expected him to be more liberal than he has been, but he sees his role as keeping the church together when it divides on controversial issues like women priests and gay clergy.

As we go to press, the debate in the Anglican Church sparked by the appointment of an openly and practising gay priest as Bishop of New Hampshire in USA is gaining a great deal of media attentioAs we go to press, the debate in the Anglican Church sparked by the appointment of an openly and practising gay priest as Bishop of New Hampshire in USA is gaining a great deal of media attentioas Bishop of New Hampshire in USA is gaining a great deal of media attention.

It would be great if everyone would live as the Bible suggests, but then how could it be expected when every other teacher, pastor, and priest is either gay or a pedophile and their leader the pope would rather shuffle them around rather than remove them from «service» to God.

Efforts to remove chastity requirements from gay PCUSA clergy had met defeat last year during an eventful summer which saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote in August to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, following the Episcopal Church's reaffirmation in July of its openness to noncelibate gay priests.

Instead, the Catholic church stands as a beacon of pre-Enlightenment thought, secrecy, exclusion (no women priests, gays, or contraception), and corruption (child abuse, financial mismanagement)-- exactly the kinds of preferred targets of this secular era's artists, who by and large pride themselves on liberality, skepticism, and criticality.