Sentences with phrase «number of priests who»

In 2001, the Globe's Spotlight team published details of a number of priests who had been removed from their posts after allegations of sexual misconduct, only to be placed in new parishes.

The funny part about this whole Catholic objection is that a number of priests who work tirelessly to help the needy in third world countries have privately expressed that they wish that these families would use contraception.

But the book provides no basis whatever for estimating the number of priests who are violating their celibacy vow.

The upshot, as best we can make out, is that a large number of priests who seek help in this connection have, in the course of their lives.

I'm appalled at the number of priest who have been outed for sure, there simply isn't an excuse for this EVER.

I feel the same way about the poor priests who are good men and are being lumped in with the reallyreallyreally sick numbers of priests who it appears will have a special place in hell tucked away just for them!

Not exact matches

The week at St Mary's included Mass celebrated by Bishop John Wilson of Westminster, who was joined by a number of priests including Fr Stephen Langridge from St Elizabeth's, Richmond — who has initiated FOCUS activities in Britain — and Father Peter Newby, chaplain at St Mary's.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

There is both a state church and an outlawed underground church, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number of bishops and priests, who receive their holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church of Rome.

now I liken this passage to what God said concerning the priest in the book of Numbers 18th chapter he said that their inheritance was of the tithes of the children of Israel and so too me its right on point as too those who are chosen by God whether Pastor, Evangelist or Apostle etc..

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

It seems rather ironic that the papacy is very quick to take action against its American nuns, when for decades it has played deaf, dumb and blind to the outrageous number of Catholic priests who have been proven to be child molesters.

Faith Movement is particularly blessed with a sizeable number of younger priests who are working in parishes all over the UK.

And so have a number of other clergy, as for example ninety Episcopalian priests from the New York area who met to discuss the matter.

Some Episcopals are desparate to leave their church due to the ordination of g - ay clergy, and the Catholic Church is desperate for more priests because of dwindling numbers of men who are «called» to the priesthood.

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

had to do not with the number but with the nature of the sexual abuses alleged: The report states that 80 \ % to 90 \ % of priests who sexually abused children over the past 52 years had been involved with adolescent boys - ephebophilia - not prepubescent children - paedophilia.»

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

For the next seven days, Luther went into the pulpit and spoke to those who could find the time from their daily work together with a fair number of students, university men, priests, as well as many women, and, crucially, his colleagues in the Faculty of Theology.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

There's such care in the way she writes every character; I think, for instance, of the priest and drama instructor played by Stephen McKinley Henderson, who has a small number of lines but an arc that's filled with pathos.

The mayor's promotion of the schools has led a growing number of those who know the actual facts to compare Rahm Emanuel's cover ups for Noble Street with the Catholic archbishops cover ups of the more serious abuses by priests.

As with lawyers, priests, doctors, soldiers, professional athletes, or people in a great many occupations there are a relatively small number of bad apples who can have a very - outsized impact on the general reputation of those who work in the occupation.