Sentences with phrase «large number of priests»

In the Jerusalem temple there were a large number of priests.

The upshot, as best we can make out, is that a large number of priests who seek help in this connection have, in the course of their lives.

Not exact matches

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.

These priests and others are in fact — by the numbers - representative of the fraction of pedophiles in the population at large.

Within a half century the Jesuits had lost many martyred priests but had succeeded in winning a number of converts, and, more important for France, they also had won the friendship of a large number of the Indians.

Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime of the sects could also be the winter of the Catholic Church.

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

Tragically, a large number of Bishops did not always follow «state» laws... whether trying to protect «guilty» priests, plain ignorance or viewing canon law as taking precedence over «state» laws (versus running parallel to them).