Sentences with phrase «not priests»

These people were always the authority on the interpretation and understanding of the scriptures, not the priests, academics, layman or anyone else.

The Christian Emperors were not priests, but they too believed the regulation of religious affairs to be one of their prerogatives.

Even though Marina and Neil are not priests, their own vocation, marriage, is equally subjected to the dark night as ardor gives way to aridity.

Therefore, if women want to be priests and claim to feel pain because they are not priests, it automatically follows that they should be priests.

Go to the meteorologists and not the priests, dum - ass!

If society engages in power struggle, why not the priests?

Catholic leaders misjudged the nature of the people's loyalty, for most found it easy enough to honor their saints at shrines whether or not priests were on hand.

But I surmise (based on a few confidences), that not all priests are taken to young boys; young girls are also targets.

Not all priests are pedophiles btw.

And from what you jsut said, it is up to the INDIVIDUAL to decide whether or not to take communion, not teh priest.

Catholics seem to believe that everyone is to be fruitful and multiply, but aren't the priests breaking that rule?

And, it was not a priest but rather a family member, the source of most cases of child abuse and corruption.

PLEASE STOP STEREOTYPING «The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself.

In the New Testament, the priest is not a priest by natural birth but by God's new and specific intervention in human history in the conferring of the sacrament of orders.

But remember, I am not a priest, so I can not offer forgiveness!

Mother 4: Oh, my son is not a priest.

As long as there isn't a priest or deacon around, not so much.

Billy is an obsequious papal apologist troll... and Stated... A criminal might subvert this sacrament but that would make him a criminal, not a priest and would result in immediate and automatic ex-communication.

Forgiveness can only be granted if you believe in the one that has the authority to forgive, and it isn't a priest.

Christ is the guardian of the tradition, not the priest.

Why can't priests be married?

We should remember that, in marriage, the ministers of the sacrament are the spouses, not the priest.

Chief, no I am not a priest.

I am not that familiar with the Catholic Church, but don't priests deal mostly with boys and relatively seldom with girls?

You should seek out a professional, not a priest.

chief, I am not a priest but I wish I was as well educated as a priest... maybe I could then explain things in such a fashion as to not get you so upset; sorry.

Joyce: Didn't the early Christians go to church singing, and didn't the priests chant something and they would sing back, and this is where our responsive reading comes from?

Say He was not a priest, and there was a break in continuity between Old and New Testaments where, otherwise, they argued Christ fulfilled and exceeded the Old Covenant.

Jim is not Catholic, and I am not a priest.

and Stated... A criminal might subvert this sacrament but that would make him a criminal, not a priest and would result in immediate ex-communication.

Billy is an obsequious papal apologist troll... and Stated... A criminal might subvert this sacrament but that would make him a criminal, not a priest and would result in immediate ex-communication.

Like most of the prophets, Amos was a layman, not a priest.

Not a priest, or a cardinal, or a freakin» Pope!

Or for that matter, why shouldn't all priests be held «culpable» for the sexual outrages of their fellow clergy?

I am not a priest,» he said.

Ummm, scientists aren't priests and if you think scientists deal with other only on the most urbane and utterly rational level, well, scientists in your universe must be Mr. Spock.

I don't support reducing the error bars on the original data either, because I act like a scientists and not a priest that knows the answer from the start.

Not exact matches

He feels powerless, as he has to follow whatever the priests might say to him about the oracle's thoughts, which eventually is not to go to battle.

An Air Force base commander wearing dress blues and a priest stood at her doorway, but she wouldn't let them cross the threshold.

I am outraged that Heather Cook, the former Episcopal priest, has the audacity to request to be released from prison after serving only two and a half years, not even four years after killing bicyclist Tom Palermo in a horrendous turn of events in which she showed herself to have no moral compass,...

Further, it doesn't have to be administered by a priest or a pastor.

Not to mention the victims of the many Catholic priests who molested children all around the world.

What I am sick of is those who continue to deny that priests should have due process, accuse and broad brush all priests, and make claims that are not proven anywhere in a court of law.

My quotes were for a person who was attending school to become a priest, but did not recognize it a sign according to his religion.

The number of pedophiles in the rcc may not be much different than in the general population, but it appears that the number of priests, or others in authority, that place the safety and future of children above their cult is very low, if not zero, given that not a single «whistle blower» from within the rcc has come forward, to my knowledge.

If not, then I can understand why the priest denied her Communion.

Forgiveness of sins only comes from Jesus, not from your daddy or from any priest.

Nor did I say there are not convicted Catholic priests as child molesters.

Study not what the priest, books, and profits tell you but how relgion has acted as has been used through man kind's written history and «goodwill» becomes very debatable.

The priest has the right to decide, and that decision should be final in matters of the faith and not dictated by government.