Sentences with phrase «not by the clergy»

We need to worry, too, about all those children who are being abused but not by the clergy: who cares about them?

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I think you are attempting to minimize the RCC's significance / guilt by linking it to a misunderstanding about se.xual orientation, i.e. look the clergy is not any more dangerous to children than average, just like gays aren't.

But the preponderance of child seex abuse in this country is not perpetrated by gays or clergy.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

And most clergy of many denominations who address the subject do not deny it was put on paper by more than one author.

Of the other accused clergy not named, 22 faced unsubstantiated accusations, four were not in active ministry and face preliminary investigation, and three were already out of the ministry by their own volition or dismissal and never were publicly accused, O'Malley's letter said.

Claiming Romney and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints are non-Christians is an insult and it should not be encouraged by other Christian clergy as is so often is.

«However, some are finding their entry to ordination blocked by liberal clergy who do not believe orthodox Anglican teachings, like Jesus being the only way to be saved.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

«The Church, understandably concerned not to repeat the mistakes of the past when it had been too slow to recognise that abuse had been perpetrated by clergy and to recognise the pain and damage caused to victims, has in effect oversteered in this case.

the opinions of those on here who think that the catholic clergy seem okay should spend some time with those abused by the catholics, not just the clergy but also the everyday catholics, this isn't limited just to the catholic clergy, they needed help to do what they did.

Though Protestant ethics supports marriage for clergy, still celibacy must not be despised any more than marriage by any Christian body.

Christian mystic William Law's «Address to the Clergy» points out how the apostles were not the «learned» but rather fishermen empowered by the Holy Spirit.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

This does not in any way negate the John Jay statistics that prove the Catholic Church had a serious problem with sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy.

The desired goal should not be to substitute a church dominated by male and female clergy for one dominated by male clergy.

But there are surely many possibilities to make it clear also by legislation that laymen have not only the right to receive the sacraments from the clergy, as the present Code of Canon Law states.

But in view of these declarations of the Council it has to be stressed that such active cooperation in tasks which belong primarily to the clergy can be satisfactorily achieved only if it is furnished also with corresponding rights, which must be established by law and not left to the good pleasure of individual bishops and parish priests.

The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?

Denominations not faced with this problem have been quick to get rid of their own pedophilic clergy, unlike Catholic bishops, who merely reshuffled the deck, moving priests around, with the hope the problem would go away by itself.

The activist New Breed clergy saw compelling Christian issues in the strike, but this view was not shared by a large majority of the clergymen.

Our country will not know of the revolutionary love of Christ by Church structures or clergy, but by the witness of every single Christian.

Here are a few of those affirmations: all baptized Christians have Spirit - granted charismata assigned to them; offices are a particular type of charismata; there is no ontological difference between officeholders and other members of the congregations; the priesthood of all believers does not divide a congregation into distinct groups (laity and clergy); ordination is a public attestation to the presence of the particular charismata by the whole congregation; ordination is not necessarily an irrevocable appointment to a lifelong task.

The colleges were not only for the future clergy but were conducted mostly by the clergy.

«90 Further reflection by Martineau would have led her to realize deficient faith was not the source of difficulty but rather the peculiar political role that must be played by disestablished clergy when they are politically active.

Rather they seek to emphasize by this creedal stance that Scripture's purpose — its message of salvation — is accessible to all and is not limited to the clergy.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

Their doubts are answered by evidence, not a run - around explanation that the clergy vomit from some place in their brain that makes psychologists facepalm.

But critics of a careerist clergy do not acknowledge that those who seek greater rewards are often driven by fear.

Clergy lived a comfortable although not extravagant lifestyle, and could offer their children the opportunities enjoyed by children of professionals in law, medicine and education.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

It's all grist to their mill: papers kept by Masonic clergy, popes obliged to lie, and then there's the Great and Terrible Secret Which They Won't Tell Us.

Why not let America's Roman Catholics vote for themselves as to whether or not contraception is a sin and force their clergy to abide by the vote?

This may not seriously be admitted by the clergy but it is true.

One important aspect of the Renaissance in Europe was that by freeing their learning from the scholastic system, by taking teaching and learning from the monopoly of the clergy and making it available to other classes, the way was opened to new knowledge and new sciences which secured for Europe progress which the Muslims did not, or would not, recognize.

LouAz said «To this minute not a single catholic priest, bishop, arch bishop,,, has called a cop and said he is reporting a child possibly being molested or being molested by any catholic clergy any place in the world!»

But clergy should not violate their sacred and moral trust by reporting the suspected offender.

Black American politics is still largely inspired by religion and often led by clergy, usually of charismatic and evangelical bent; black political rhetoric can not be understood except in the context of biblical thought and imagery.

Obviously, this is not a book to be read in a sitting, but the 20 percent of our subscribers who are clergy might jump - start their homiletical efforts by regularly imbibing — from this book, that is.

To this minute not a single catholic priest, bishop, arch bishop, cardinal, or poop has called a cop and said he is reporting a child possibly being molested or being molested by any catholic clergy any place in the world!

Let's not agree to disagree over the rights of women and the LGBT community, the Establishment Clause, the exploitation of misguided people by predatory clergy.

But within a few short years the Revolution led first to schism (with the «Civil Constitution of the Clergy» in 1790) and soon to the outright de - Christianisation of France, accompanied by the unleashing of the Terror, in which hundreds of thousands of innocent Catholics were murdered — not least the 115,000 peasants of the Vendée, slaughtered in the first genocide of the modern age.

An independent reviewer of child sex abuse by Church of England clergy was not shown documents that may have shed light on previous offending, an inquiry heard.

However, the plans could prove to be decisive as the proposals would mean Methodist clergy who had not been ordained by a bishop would be entitled to hold Church of England services.

Isn't it interesting how much of our current church system (buildings, paid clergy and the tithe, among other things) was originally established by Roman emperors?

Not all marriages are performed by clergy.

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

These social scientists have not yet, to my knowledge, turned their attention to the role (s) played by theologians in helping to form the attitudes of clergy and laity.