We gave her mother the benefit
of a priest when she died, and she rolled her eyes and said no.
Jesus discredits the sincerity
of the priests when they ask him by what authority he does the things he does.
The Sacramentary» prescribes the alb; a cincture, which is tied at the waist; an optional amice, or neck scarf; and a chasuble as the normal vesture
of a priest when celebrating the mass.
Was the diocese responsible for the direction, control and discipline
of its priests when the abuse was occurring?
Not exact matches
This being said,
when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a
priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements
of Scripture.
If so, we'll see how well the relationship and the faith hold up
when her
priest tells her she should stop living / sleeping with him out
of wedlock.
The arrangement
of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013,
when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its
priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop
of Qatar.»
Their unofficial policy
of priests vs, altar boys pales into insignificance
when compared to their offcial policies
of charging patients around $ 50.00 for an asprin.
Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set
of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty
of Catholic
priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and
when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).
The allegations span back to the 1970s and 1980s
when Cardinal George Pell was a senior
priest in the Diocese
of Ballarat in the state
of Victoria.
There was still silence
when, at around the same time, the sons
of pastor Alexander Pavenko
of the charismatic Church
of the Transfiguration
of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city
of Slavyansk,
when the
priests of the Patriarchate
of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and
when Greek Catholic
priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»
Just a few would be teaching things either not in the Bible or are anti-Biblical... veneration
of Mary... praying to a
priest when 2 Timothy clearly says there's only one mediator between man and God (Christ Jesus)... the Pope... indulgences... and the biggest difference is works righteousness (infused vs. imputed righteousness).
In a pivotal scene in Underworld (1997), a Jesuit
priest sits down with the protagonist, Nick Shay,
when he is a young man and asks him to name all the parts
of a shoe — the cuff, the counter, the welt, the vamp, the aglet, the grommet.
One influential Orthodox
priest, persecuted under the Soviets and now revered, proclaimed that «in the person
of Rasputin I see the entire Russian people — beaten and executed, yet still preserving their faith, even
when it means death.
The universe came from somewhere, but
when I see a phrase like, «Suffering is necessary» spoken by a Catholic
priest, given the history
of priests getting diddlely with children, I think I'm seeing a little bit
of justification by this old yutz.
I remember
when a couple
of priest tried to make the move on me as a teen.
Are you serious this is the last thing we should be concerned about
when it comes to Catholic church what about
priest (I use that word loosely they are sleeping with the choir boys and
when they get caught they move them to another church so they can start again to me that is what they need to change in the church in the name
of JESUS I pray for that right now!!!
One said (and I paraphrase)
When I have the vespers on, I am a
priest, I take them off because this body has needs, so I take care
of those needs, then put the vespers backl on, and I am a
priest again.
«
When a Catholic requests a memorial Mass for the dead — that is, a Mass said for the benefit
of someone in purgatory — it is customary to give the parish
priest a stipend, on the principles that the laborer is worth his hire (Luke 10:7) and that those who preside at the altar share the altar's offerings (1 Cor.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are
Priests that have issues with girls - my mom
when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many
of the
priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic
priest to baptize, hear the confession
of, celebrate the anointing
of the sick with, or preach the word
of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop
of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year
when he joined a suit against the law.
Secondly, as a
priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind
of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens
when a gay
priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case
'' «If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes
of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act, 14 if a spirit
of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous
of his wife
when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit
of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous
of his wife
when she has not defiled herself, 15 the man shall then bring his wife to the
priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one - tenth
of an ephah
of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering
of jealousy, a grain offering
of memorial, a reminder
of iniquity.
As a Catholic I might give some consideration to the comments
of professors,
priests, nuns, et al. who parade their Catholicism if any can show they came foward to critic Georgetown University
when it bowed to President Obama
when he decreed a religious symbol must be covered before he would speak there.
23 10 «Speak to the Israelites and say to them: «
When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the
priest a sheaf
of the first grain you harvest.
jwt, yeahright, tom tom on the pipe, and others YHWH made this law
of life for all the people
of this earth, so to say your god is redundant, and at a lost for as He states in Isaiah 56, and in Exodus 33 vs. 16 this is for all nations, and people
of this earth those who were mislead, and not taught properly by these
priest, popes, false prophets, elders, and shepherds, as YHWH taught us
of them all misleading the flocks, in Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, Ezekiel 20, and Ezekiel 34, yet YHWH will save them all
when His day comes, as said in Isaiah 51 vs. 5, that His righteousness is near.
Funny... those three things are just what the Catholic
priests (yes, a form
of Christianity) told their alter boys
when they were having doubts about their beliefs.
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.
Holloway telling
of when he was a young
priest and knew a good lad, very keen on his faith, who was possibly a candidate for the priesthood.
In the days
when priests were plentiful, parish work was solely a clerical responsibility, but now one third
of all
priests in Krakow had been deported.
It describes four qualities essential to authentic dialogue, which
when applied to the family (particularly to the role
of parents) make it more evident why John Paul II compared their role to the ministry
of priests.3 Four Qualities
of Authentic Dialogue
When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desi
When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend;
when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desi
when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a
priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions
of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice
of presence that this
Priest will carry out; and
when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desi
when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.
Only
when what we offer — bread and wine — is connected with what the
priest offers to the Father after the consecration, namely the Body and Blood
of Christ, can we truly say that this is our offering to God.3
Likewise,
when — by the force
of the words spoken by the
priest — the Blood is made present under the continued appearance
of wine, the Body, Soul and Divinity
of Christ are made present by natural concomitance.
So we need to add that something can be made present not only on account
of the force
of the words uttered by the
priest but on account
of what is called natural concomitance.4 This means that whatever is actually connected with the Body
of Christ (or the Blood
of Christ) is made present
when the Body (or the Blood) is made present.
When I push the senior
priest to tell me what Pell was then, if not a pioneer on child abuse, he is blunt: «To be honest, I don't think anything
of him.
Strange since
when the signs were given that it didn't actually change the minds
of the Baal
priests, and since the reason for Elijah doing it had nothing to do with proving the Baal
priests minds, you really don't have any frame
of reference to use the sign showing challenge to disprove belief.
When we see the true greatness and the depth
of the call to celibacy, or chastity under vow, then the bleatings to allow the poor lonely, loveless
priests to marry seem so defeatist, blind and niggardly.
He finds the idea
of the
priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor
of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was
when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the
priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»
«The second person
of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name
of the male... God appoints all the
priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son
of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers
of the Church be men; and
when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»
He stopped being a
priest when he realized that he was playing the role
of the «caretaker and star» in people's lives.
Athie said the church either ignored or archived for years allegations
of child sex abuse
when he reported them during his years as a
priest.
When Pilate told «the chief
priests and the multitudes» that he did not find the prisoner guilty
of any crime, they insisted that Jesus had been stirring up the people from Galilee to Jerusalem.
Once,
when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where
priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full
of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers
of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?
when «the elders
of the people both chief
priests and scribes,» assembled and «led him away to their council» (v 66).
A deposition heard by the court alleges that
when a 14 - year - old girl asked the
priest for advice on how to fend off inappropriate advances from a 64 - year - old parishioner, he simply told her, «this is your problem; sweep it under the floor and get rid
of it.»
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.
Many parents and
priests know, often with deep personal sadness, how a young person may readily give notional assent to the words
of a respected and loved adult, only to reject what they have learned
when other ideas, ambitions and desires overwhelm them.
When asked in a free - wheeling news conference (in the middle
of some turbulence) about the presence
of gay
priests in the church, he responded, «If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?»
When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the two church leaders discussed the probable future ordination
of women
priests in the Anglican Church.