Sentences with phrase «identity as priests»

Any attempt to make themselves the centre of the liturgical action contradicts their very identity as priests.

Now Professor of Sociology at both the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, Greeley repeatedly asserts his dual identity as both priest and sociologist, and in the latter capacity he adamantly insists that he is a «scientist,» usually defining that term in an old - fashioned positivist manner.

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But, as Cardinal Dulles argued, to bar a priest from publicly celebrating the Mass and administering the sacraments is to rob him of his sacred calling, his lifelong identity, his good reputation, and his sole means of support — effectively a death penalty.

Its interest lies not so much in the content as in the identity of the author, Paul F. Morrisey, a Catholic priest, and the context.

«You have the hands of a craftsman, not an artist,» says a friendly village priest (Paolo Bonacelli) to an American expatriate whose identity is ambiguous but whose face is recognizable to the rest of us as George Clooney's.