Sentences with phrase «more of the priests»
Does it mean that priests can now marry, and we won't have any more of these priests molesting kids?
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We see more of the priest's fate than I expected and got some ominous hints about what the church is up to.
Not exact matches
The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.
These unholy priests have brought us many more holy ones who wish to purge the Church of the unholy one's infestation.
What the priest did was in direct conflict with everything I was taught by two different orders of nuns and more than one Jesuit priest.
More recently, what about the executions in Africa of children by priests in the last few years (because the children were supposedly witches)?
More «Catholic priests are a bunch of pedophiles» and «I'm against pedophiles» posts by people who really know very little about pedophile statistics and just use these areticles to vent their anti-catholic prejudices.
It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.
As a parish priest, my grandfather would have been more accustomed to conducting funerals of the human variety, but the memory has stayed with me as an example of his gentle nature and humane spirituality.
Maybe he's more of an athiest priest preaching about his own faith.
One more place for the RCC to hide their priests from the forces of law... great move on the courts behalf or not!
This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.
A Kosovan court has refused to extradite a British priest accused of child sex abuse for a second time,... More
A Syrian Church of England priest has accused the British government of having «blood on its hands»,... More
The cardinal accepted that abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy than children claiming they were abused.
The number of Catholic priests in Europe has dropped by nearly a quarter since 1980, according to a US... More
The killing of 200 priests in England and the imprisonment of many more.
An Anglican priest has confronted the Australian Leader of the Opposition over comments he made about... More
The Catholic Church in Germany has redefined current diocesan boundaries and included more lay people in ministry and brought in more foreign priests in order to address falling numbers of Germans entering the clergy.
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.
A former Church of England priest has handed himself in to authorities in India to face claims he abused... More
Pope Francis has directly appealed for the release of an Indian priest who was kidnapped by terrorists... More
The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.
The head of Franciscan priests in the Middle East has said aid money should help Syrian Christians to... More
Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.
After this vocabulary lesson, the priest asks, more or less rhetorically, whether Nick has recently signed a petition in support of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The Archbishop of Colombo has told priests not to put up Christmas trees in churches because he says... More
What's more, Rasputin never pointed to the homosexuality of corrupt priests out to destroy him, which proves he was a voice of tolerance «for what might be called outsiders — homosexuals, Jews, prostitutes, dissenters, sectarians — that was rare for Russia at the time.»
A Catholic priest has been cleared by a jury of historical allegations that he sexually abused nine girls... More
A funeral has been held for a Northern Irish priest who's been called a «champion of the peace process»... More
A Syrian priest in the city of Aleppo has said things are worse than they ever have been since war in... More
The priest had been part of the Clonard Monastery in west Belfast, and worked for peace between Irish Protestants and Catholics for more than thirty years.
A more obedient laity might have wondered aloud about the fact that a significant number of priests post-Vatican II seemed more or less openly gay.
The Vatican's honoured an Irish priest who saved thousands of Jews and Allied Soldiers during World War... More
He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.
By the way there is far more of this behavior occuring by married men than by celibate priests in society.
Posted today «NEW STATS: 10 % of Catholic priests were pedophiles and still counting, 20 to 200 times more than general population» at http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-stats-10-percent-of-catholic.html Written by, me, a Journalist / Survivor of pedophile priest crime in Los Angeles.
The Church of England is examining proposals which could see priests who break the law stopped from using... More
If people got priests that encouraged them to be more and more free instead of more and more guilty, the church may save itself yet.
The Church needs more feminine influence in wake of the scandals involving priests.
The priest - Father Joseph Pavanivel Jeyapaul of Ootacamund, India - served in a diocese in Crookston, Minnesota, for a little more than a year in 2004 and 2005, according to church documents unearthed in a lawsuit related to the case.
Why the RCC thought their priests were above the law and why they cared more for the reputation of their priests more than for the innocent children that suffered at the hands of these horrible men is beyond me.
Alleging that the names posted by O'Malley deliberately omitted «at least a third of predator priests,» Clohessy's statement added that «some kids will be spared some abuse, because some predator priests are now more easily identified, and some victims will feel validation.»
5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.
But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.
So while I personally wouldn't categorically state that possession does or doesn't exist, my experience tells me that people who behave in these ways are more in need of a specially - trained mental health professional than they are in need of a specially - trained priest.
It's funny how nuns would tell me far more about religion and the HISTORY of the faith than any hundred priests, even when directly asked.
As a priest, I am forced into more encounters with death than most civilians outside of the medical profession.
Meanwhile, for more than a year, we went to Mass every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation, sitting where we knew we could get in line to approach the celebrant priest (not a deacon or extraordinary minister) with our arms folded to receive a blessing.
Far more inspiring during seminary years was listening to Edward Holloway who linked priestly celibacy directly to Jesus Christ and to priestly loving, making it emerge clearly that celibacy is not something a priest grits his teeth and does, but is more a continual state of being, in relationship to Christ, which has its own specific way of giving and receiving love.