Sentences with phrase «ministry as a priest»

Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Newman's ministry as a priest was not seen as a profession but as an apostolate.

A clergyman who was convicted of filming men using a public toilet in a shopping centre has been barred from ministry as a priest in the Church of England for seven years.

Thrower was removed from his post as rector of Hadleigh and barred from ministry as a priest in the Church of England for seven years in October 2017.

«As a result, Chris resigned his post and accepted a penalty of two years prohibition from ministry as a priest.»

Upon his return to the United States, his opportunities increased, as he earned a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University — a degree he believes enhanced his ministry as a priest.

Not exact matches

«Through the ordained ministry, especially that of bishops and priests, the presence of Christ as head of the Church is made visible in the midst of the community of believers.

'» Sadly, Catholic priests are suspended from their priestly ministry — in effect, treated as guilty — on the basis of neither of these judicial standards, but on the basis of the weakest possible criterion, mere «credibility.»

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

Cardinal Stickler in his The Case for Clerical Celibacy (first published 1993, English edition Ignatius, 1995) summed up the crisis as not only priests renouncing their ministry and fewer vocations but also a «profound secularization» by many who stay in active ministry (p. 85).

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

As a young priest he spent time with the brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist; the crucible of silence shaped his ministry.

The ministry of today and tomorrow must indeed represent all the kinds of authority associated with the office in the past — institutional, teaching or Scriptural, communal and spiritual; but as institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- The Catholic Church in Philadelphia will investigate as many as 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in «active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse,» Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, said Wednesday.

Drawing on biblical and church tradition, he spoke of the roles of pastor, priest, prophet and king as historically normative for the Christian ministry.

When the repentant sinner is a priest, however, it is a separate, prudential question whether he should be allowed to continue in ministry, just as it is a prudential question whether a good man seeking ordination ought to be ordained in the first place.

The story will be given additional legs as the Dallas charter is implemented and good and beloved priests are removed from ministry.

Removing priests from ministry does not derail the Christian imperatives to conversion, repentance, and redemption as he fears.

Note what counts as an offense for which a priest is removed from ministry for life.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

Or the oracle simply assures the supplicant in general terms that all is well, with statements which suit as well the prophet s ministry to a people in exile as the priest's ministry in the temple to individuals in private anguish.

In the Catholic tradition an ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a minister, with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.

Niebuhr contends that, according to the newly emerging picture of the ministry, just as «institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director».

The priests under fifty today see their ministry as counter-cultural, and the culture they are countering is the one ministered to by liberalism.

The church investigated 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in «active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse,» according to Cardinal Justin Rigali.

The process of breaking down the primitive cultural monopoly of the bishop with the consequent approximation of parity of bishop and priest in respect to their ministry, as distinguished from their jurisdiction, proceeded unevenly, more rapidly in the big cities than in the small towns, more readily in the West than in the East.

«We are all priests,» wrote Luther, «insofar as we are Christians, but those whom we call priests are ministers [Diener] selected from our midst to act in our name, and their priesthood is our ministry.»

As for lawyers, the so - called priests in the temple of justice, from the courtroom rookie to the silk, they are the contemporary equivalent of Eli's wayward sons, Hophni and Phineas, who turned their father's noble ministry into a heinous swindle.

The story's «hero,» as it were, is the Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), a cleric cut from the cloth of Graham Greene's «whiskey priest,» Bresson's country priest and even Richard Burton's «meddlesome priest» — a man who finds in his ministry more torment than solace.

Starting with the story of conservative Christian ideology being peddled at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (where fliers for Mel Gibson's The Passion were handed out, and Ted Haggard's New Life ministries touted) and winding back in time, the movie follows author and former Roman Catholic priest James Carroll as he interweaves his own family history with a grander inquisition into faith, and in particular the nasty, tangled intersection between Christianity and Judaism.

Judges have routinely invoked the ministerial exception to dismiss lawsuits against religious employers by rabbis, ministers, cantors, nuns and priests — those «whose ministry is a core expression of religious belief for that congregation,» as Mr. McNicholas put it.

The Seminary prepares students for ministry as bishops, priests, deacons, lay leaders, and scholars so that they may build up Orthodox communities, foster Church growth through mission and evangelism, teach the Orthodox faith, and care for those in need.