Sentences with phrase «of gay priests»

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?»

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

Along with the pediphile problem in the Church there are a lot of gay priests.

Winner of the Teddy Award for best LGBT narrative film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Malgorzata Szumowksa's Polish drama «In the Name Of» sensitivity approaches the central character of a gay priest.

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.

It comes from all classes of people, including straight females, albeit the numbers for women are lower than either priests or gay men.

Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»

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.

Of course, igaftr, but I believe the Pope was talking about pedophiles, not gay priests.

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

And at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.

Heck some of their faith traditions even have Gay bishops and female priests.

If we put to death all those who are Gay or have committed Adultry as the Bible says, we would loose half of the pasters, priest, politicians and Society including half his congregation.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women priests, or has talked openly about their gay partner.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge over his claim he was discriminated against.

I am not arguing that they are more noble people, what I am saying is that the majority of orthodox priests are married (with a lot of children) and not gay.

It's facing serious strains over the ordination of women bishops and gay priests, and the Catholic Church has reached out to disaffected Anglicans, raising the possibility that conservatives could leave en masse.

for every priest that violated his vows and the trust of his parishioners there will someday be a reckoning... true the head always suffers for his members that go astray... but the Brits don't understand the Catholic church if they think that we are going to accept practicing man and females gays into the priesthood and except the pope to issue condoms for the prevention of AID they got something else coming... If the Brits want to live in a perverse society where every thing goes that their moral problem!!

What would have happened if, even a year ago, Cardinal Law had confronted them and other blatantly gay priests with the alternative of living in obedience to their vows or leaving the priesthood?

At the same time, there are expressions of sympathy for priests who are acting out their homosexual desires and accounts of gays who claim to have had affairs with priests.

it would be nice if some of the gay and lesbian groups would start programs to help the» priests who abused young boys and girls.»

From CNN's Kelly Marshall: Hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a measure Thursday that would repeal «don't ask, don't tell,» a group of pastors, priests and rabbis gathered in the Capitol to encourage lawmakers to retain the ban on gays in the military.

The priest celibacy issue is the only item even on the agenda, but without female clergy, birth control and acceptance of gay relationships they haven't got a hope in the modern world.

Blacks in society, we are told, have a right to have role models in positions of leadership, and it therefore follows that homosexuals in the church have a right to role models in the form of openly gay popes, bishops, and priests.

I guess the crusades, the inquisition, gay priest cover ups, corrupt bishops extorting charity funds, and drunk driving ministers are not that big of a deal to you.

Canon Jeremy Pemberton, the gay priest who lost a tribunal claim that he was discriminated against by the Church of England after he was refused a job for being...

«I am, simultaneously, a gay man, a professional sociologist, and an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church,» he said.

11 Catholic archdiocese have filed for bankruptcy protection due to not being able to afford paying cash settlements to families of underaged males openly gay priests have stalked and and found to be rayping.

While members of other religious orders, some diocesan priests, and even a few bishops who have cultivated a reputation for being «gay - friendly» have sharply criticized the November instruction, the Jesuits do seem to be in the vanguard of the attack.

Both gay and straight priests, as well as former seminarians, acknowledge that, as many priests left to marry, the proportion of priests who were gay increased dramatically, and in some places, gay subcultures flourished.

I think a lot of people expected him to be more liberal than he has been, but he sees his role as keeping the church together when it divides on controversial issues like women priests and gay clergy.

As we go to press, the debate in the Anglican Church sparked by the appointment of an openly and practising gay priest as Bishop of New Hampshire in USA is gaining a great deal of media attention.

An Irish priest at the center of a gay porn controversy has asked to leave his parish and take sabbatical leave from the priesthood, he said Sunday.

CNN: Priest in gay porn probe leaves parish An Irish priest at the center of a gay porn controversy has asked to leave his parish and take sabbatical leave from the priesthood, he said Sunday.

«Here we have what is effectively a high profile demonstration where the parish priest is able to use his own church for his own gay wedding in all but name and has upset a lot of people.

He was raising the case of after Revd Jeremy Pemberton from Nottinghamshire who lost his licence to be a priest when he entered into a gay marriage in April.

Why when I was running around in a black shirt and collar for the RCC before the year 2000 50 % of priests I knew were gay.

Naturally if Episcopalians are disaffected because of the ordination of an openly gay priest, then flock to the RCC.

That is coming from todays world and besides theres plenty of gay christian priests

«Women aren't going to be priests, there aren't going to be baskets of condoms next to the holy water in church and gays can either stay celibate or grit their teeth and pretend to be hetero.»

Efforts to remove chastity requirements from gay PCUSA clergy had met defeat last year during an eventful summer which saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote in August to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, following the Episcopal Church's reaffirmation in July of its openness to noncelibate gay priests.

I admittedly have a circle of friends that skews heavily gay, and yet of the 20 or so Catholic priests I've known in my life only one of them was gay.

The decision to resign follows a resolution by the leadership of the Presby Church Ghana to severe their relationship with pro-homosexual Presbyterian Church, United States of America over their decision to ordain gay priests.

Last night at the Empire State Pride Agenda's Fall Dinner for New York City's gay elite, keynote speaker Governor David Paterson thanked his embattled chief of staff, Charles O'Byrne, for attending the gala, adding that the former Jesuit priest «brought his own minstrel corps this evening,» to a round of guffaws from the dandyish crowd.

If Andrew Cuomo has a problem with the Catholic Church's position on gay marriage, he needs to take that up with his parish priest — if they are still talking after Andrew's public support of partial birth abortion.»

A student at Le Moyne started a petition calling for a different speaker because of Dolan's handling of allegations of sexual abuse by priests and comments he's made about gays and lesbians.

After O'Byrne, the gay former Jesuit priest, was forced out of his public role in a tax scandal in October 2008, he began advising Gill behind the scenes.

Some cover newsy topics like Catholic priest scandals and gay marriage; there's also lots of humor, essays and memoir, shorter than a full - length book but longer than what you'd find in a magazine.

Instead, the Catholic church stands as a beacon of pre-Enlightenment thought, secrecy, exclusion (no women priests, gays, or contraception), and corruption (child abuse, financial mismanagement)-- exactly the kinds of preferred targets of this secular era's artists, who by and large pride themselves on liberality, skepticism, and criticality.