Sentences with phrase «married clergy»

In the past decade, those with graduate - level degrees earned an average mean household income of $ 105,539 — almost double that of male married clergy.

Do married clergy, like deacons, or, for that matter, married laity, have nothing from above to give?

The Movement for Married Clergy believes that advocates for clerical celibacy base their views on notions of cultic purity and an idea that the love of God is more readily accessible in the celibate life.

In his first major teaching on family issues, Pope Francis advances the power of local bishops to include divorced and remarried Catholics in church life, perhaps even letting them celebrate the Eucharist, while largely sidestepping hot - button social issues like gay marriage and married clergy.

«The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could also be drawn upon,» he writes, without specificying what that means in the context of the debate over married clergy in non-Eastern traditions.

«Maybe having married clergy will help us all move on from a culture of sexual taboos,» Albert Cutié writes

The Eastern Rite Catholics have married clergy.

If Western Catholics want to use the example of the Eastern Churches as a guide for their own situation it is imperative that they understand how a married clergy fits into this unique Church culture.

But while it is true that Eastern Christians generally value their married clergy, it is equally true that a majority of these believers hold monasticism in even greater esteem.

The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.

Responding to this reality, and getting real about priorities, Msgr. Joseph Champlin, well - known writer and lecturer, told the diocesan paper of St. Cloud, Minn., «The big question is not about the ordination of women or married clergy or the decline in clergy or pedophilia or abortion or assisted suicide.

Eastern Rite Catholics have a married clergy and celibate bishops (often drawn from the monasteries) and an Eastern liturgy similar to the Orthodox so there is precedent and an historic tradition for the ordinate.

All too often in these interpretations the principle of collegiality degenerates into code - speak for the enactment of the by now very tired canon of dissent: contraception, married clergy, women priests, weird made - up liturgy and all the usual suspects — which in passing we note have been tried among our separated brethren and have not brought renewal.

Intransigence on such issues as divorce, married clergy and the ordination of women are related, psychosocially, to these controversies over changing sexual mores.