Sentences with phrase «less than priest»

For all, least no less than greatest, all are out for dishonest gain; prophet no less than priest, all practise fraud.

Not exact matches

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

Likely more than Catholic priests since the rate of abuse of priests is < 2 % and Atheists being in the general public where the rate is 7 % could likely be expected to mirror that statistic or worse since they have less moral bounds.

Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

I had a Catholic priest look me in the eye no less than 3 weeks ago and tell me that birth control give you a 30 % chance to get cervical cancer (which is a straight up lie).

Though Dalit Christians make 65 per cent» of the 10 million Christians in the South, less than 4 per cent of the parishes are entrusted to Dalit priests.

No, it shouldn't have happened, but it is less than 1 % of priests worldwide that have done these crimes.

When he represents priests and parsons as oinking pigs gathered at the bedside of the dying freethinker, his point is less to argue that clergy are parasites than to strip them of their dignity.

Reflect on the fact that this is less than one of some 160 pages of only one Kanda describing only one sacrifice, and that the Satapatha - Brahmana of which it is a part is but one of many Brahmanas, all of which were regarded as sacred by the early Hindus, and transmitted orally from priest to priest for centuries.

Your «100 %» argument fails to consider that some percentage, less than 100 %, of priests were still boys at the age they (or their family) decided they were to become priests.

This plain diocesan priest did enjoy the foreword to the new edition by Member of Parliament David Alton in which he underscores the importance of ECT for sectarian strife in Northern Ireland and for evangelization in England, where less than 10 percent of the population attends church.

I think things are simpler than they appear — pope - a-dope wants to allow his priests to use condoms so that when they abuse innocent children, they are protected and guilty of one less sin.

Although the presenters indicated that they had received a less - than - enthusiastic reception in some of the places where they had spoken recently, the many positive comments I heard from my brother priests following the workshop are another encouraging sign about where liturgical practice is going in the United States at the beginning of the 2010s.

Every day lawyers, reporters, victim organizations, and a passel of disgruntled priests became more and more explicit; they were set on bringing down Cardinal Law, they would settle for nothing less than blood.

For before I had reached the Gospel reading [less than halfway through the text], the priest next to me had concluded his Mass, and they called aloud to me: «Passa, passa — hurry up, hurry up.»»

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

«Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, unwittingly reveals what draws the new atheists towards the Catholic - abuse story:... «Odious as the physical abuse of children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them less lasting damage than the mental abuse of bringing them up Catholic in the first place», [http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118?page=2].

You believe that priests are only in it for the money, despite the fact that they make less than almost anyone else with their level of education.

When the church fathers considered friendship, they were often less concerned with its normal sense than with «relations among monks, priests, or other devotees who lived together in religious communities.»

There are something like 406411 Catholic priests out there in the world (according to a 2005 census) and less than half of 1 % have been charged with a crime.

The best the high priests of AGW theory can come up with is about 90 % (ie less than 1 / 100th as certain.