Sentences with phrase «into celibacy»

Should singles be forced into celibacy just because they're not interested in, willing or able to be part of a committed, monogamous relationship?

The problem is that forcing priests into celibacy has created an army of bitter old se.xless men who want to believe their is some moral superiority in living as they do.

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So now you can witness that RC priests have gotten into one problem after another because the RCC is not honest about celibacy and now you can see MOST RC women do not practice their rules on contraception.

The medieval reforms made marriage into a sacrament, a state clearly inferior to celibacy, yet still holy, consensual, and indissoluble.

Celibacy does mean that a priest can be more easily moved around, and no doubt it does cost the Church a lot less money, but it is not entered into for these purely pragmatic reasons.

Jesus admits that celibacy is a legitimate and go # d way of life when it is a voluntary decision and is entered into for the sake of undistracted service to God and God's people.

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

An Australian inquiry into child abuse has recommended the Catholic Church lift its demand of celibacy from clergy and clarify the extent that the seal of the confession conceals evidence of child abuse.

If you read about Paul's comments on celibacy it is a rare «calling» and not something one is forced into because the church decides this is how you should conduct yourself.

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

A report into abuse within the Catholic Church in Australia says in some cases the policy of celibacy... More

Though interesting and persuasive (I had never before thought of celibacy as a means of political resistance), it is unclear how Grant Kaplan's insight into nineteenth - century Germany is relevant to today's church — state conflict («Celibacy as Political Resistance,» Jcelibacy as a means of political resistance), it is unclear how Grant Kaplan's insight into nineteenth - century Germany is relevant to today's church — state conflict («Celibacy as Political Resistance,» JCelibacy as Political Resistance,» January).

When the current Pope was the right hand man of Pope John Paul II, he issued a statement that is still enforced - that all gay men are «inherently evil» and would be «welcomed back into the Church only if they took a vow of celibacy.»

He lost 40 pounds, prayed every day, practiced celibacy and sacrificed in the service of what he believed God could call one into.

And I agree that celibacy is most definitely not inherrently harmful when freely choosen, though I may disagree that most celibate gay christians are in fact «freely choosing» that path as opposed to feeling pressured into it and thus struggling with it in a less than beneficial fasion (which is not to say that there isn't a level of struggle inherent in the Christian life which can in fact be benificial).

One of the common criticisms of a traditionally Christian sexual ethic is that it forces a lot of gay people into involuntary celibacy, which some find very lonely, painful, frustrating.

JP, the Sons of YHWH (God), had more than one wife, there was no celibacy here, you are trapped in this change of the vision of book Daniel of our future going into idols, and false religions, and corrupted governments.

For example, Schonborn had not called into question the practice of celibacy.

[25] Marriage and celibacy do not «divide the human (and Christian) community into two camps [as if there were] those who are «perfect» because of continence and those who are imperfect or «less perfect because of the reality of married life.»

Once there, however, Jackie's annoyance at her son's poor life choices manifests itself into a surprising curiosity, so she takes up surfing lessons with Ian (Luke Wilson), a laid - back dude who emerges as a prime candidate to end her five - year - long celibacy streak.

Into Great Silence (Die Grosze Stille) DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Offers Rare Peak at Monastic Life Who would ever think that you could make a movie about an order of self - effacing monks who «ve taken not only a vow of celibacy, but also of silence?

The Lightkeepers (PG for smoking, mature themes and brief profanity) Romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1912, where a misogynistic lighthouse keeper (Richard Dreyfuss) finds his vow of celibacy tested when a young heiress (Mamie Gummer) with an attractive assistant (Blyhe Danner) moves into a nearby cottage for the summer.

The phallocentric organization of the Church is cleverly called into question in that, despite the required proof of being male, Catholic priests are required to take a vow of celibacy.

The contemporary abstract artists are of an almost religious temper in their sense of dedication, and will themselves into a highly conscious pictorial celibacy in defiance of traditional, nineteenth - century illusionism.

Medusa broke her vow of celibacy and married the god Poseidon, for which, as punishment, the goddess Athena turned her golden locks into a morass of snakes.