Sentences with phrase «married priests»
"Married priests" refers to clergy members who are allowed to be married. Usually, within certain religious traditions, priests are expected to remain celibate and unmarried as a part of their religious commitment. However, in specific cases or denominations, the term "married priests" describes those who are permitted to enter into a marriage and continue their religious duties. Full definition
There are lots of married priests in the CC.
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Celibacy is disciplinary, not doctrinal, and there are many married priests within the Catholic Church.
- I note that Jack Robbins's letter (8th December) asking for «many more» married priests ignores Fr Hellyer's powerful theological reasoning for celibacy (letter, November 24th).
You make a fool out of yourself with a straw man about married priests though its funny you didn't talk to Peter's wife.
Letting priests marry and ordaining married priests are two different questions.
In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.
Is this an experiment by the Catholic Church to see how married priests perform in a parish?
One of the difficulties frequently when discussing vocations is the general lack of understanding of the Church's present opinion on married priests and woman priests.
As is also well known, the Eastern - rite traditions have a different perspective, in some circumstances allowing married priests.
Some mistakenly think of us as «Catholic, but without the Pope,» or «Catholic, except with married priests.»
Legend says that the empress of Coba married a priest from Tikal, which may explain the similarities in architectural style.
«Particularly, for this issue of married priests, it is a practice of the Church and it has been for hundreds of years but it's not doctrine - it is open for debate.»
There are married priests in the CC for example easter rite Catholic preists can be married.
«Father Cutie» can now rejoin the RCC as a married priest just like many Episcopalian priests and bishops are doing these days.
She had not intended to marry a priest and initially refused to countenance the idea, so Geoff returned to his role as an administrator in the Malayan Civil Service.
He could join then redounce those vows and then rejoin Catholicism as a married priest just like many Episcopalian priests and bishops are doing these days.
It is their married priests who can convert to Catholicism and be accepted as priests, even with wives and children in tow.
It's not hard to see what tensions might be generated: the married priest may well form very deep spiritual friendships with others, including women and young people; people who may be more advanced in the spiritual life than his wife orchildren.
Married priests, just like the apostles, but in through the side door.
It seems that the one thing everyone knows about the Eastern Churches is that «they have married priests.»
An encyclical on love from a right - wing pope could only contain more damning condemnations of our materialistic, westernised society, more evocations of the «intrinsic evil» of contraception, married priests, homosexuality.
I wish American Catholics would exercise their gonads, and form an independant American Catholic Church: Married priests, women priests, transparent finances, each church governed by a board (vestry) and contraception is OK.
The practice of celibate bishops (with the allowance of married priests) was
In May he urged other Church leaders to «listen without any taboo to the arguments in favour of married priests, the Eucharist for the divorced, and homosexuality.»
Cardinal Walter Kasper also disparaged the Church of England in an interview published last weekend, saying that although it had broken with the Vatican on two key issues - married priests and women priests - it was not faring better than the Roman Catholic Church.
Before I left the RCC I was a member of at least 4 different parishes, and not once did I ever meet a married priest.
Rather than censure nuns why not open the priesthood to marriage and married priests.
married priests were common before that.
Not one word about abortion, contraception, married priest or women priests in Christs words.
I would point that we Eastern Orthodox have done just fine having married priests for all these centuries.
by opening the priesthood to married priests and women they attract a normal population of people to the priesthood.