Sentences with phrase «of married priests»

In May he urged other Church leaders to «listen without any taboo to the arguments in favour of married priests, the Eucharist for the divorced, and homosexuality.»

The practice of celibate bishops (with the allowance of married priests) was

There are lots of married priests in the CC.

«Particularly, for this issue of married priests, it is a practice of the Church and it has been for hundreds of years but it's not doctrine - it is open for debate.»

Not exact matches

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Bevilacqua?)

I just say let the g@ys be open and you would prevent a lot of problems, along with letting married men be priests.

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

By the way there is far more of this behavior occuring by married men than by celibate priests in society.

The issue of whether priests should be allowed to marry is utterly separate from the issue of child abuse by clergy.

The Archbishop of Baltimore did docu - ment that if a married couple had good reason to use birth control (ie on gets HI - V from tainted blood) and the discuss their si - tu - ation with their priest and pray to God for guidance and they come to the con - clu - sion the should use birth control the can rest a-s-su-re-d they are making a moral decision.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

If they would allow priests to marry ths might not happen but I don't know where they get the idea they can't marry, my Bible doesn't say anything about a man of God not being able to marry.

No doubt this is mainly due to the Catholic Church's policy of keeping its sins secret by protecting them since the early Church policy of preventing priests from marrying.

According to ancient Jewish canon (law) a priest (of which Jesus was one) was required to be at least 30 years old, married and have children BEFORE becoming a priest so that he would be able to understand the problems and conflicts of marriage and parenthood.

Someone made a good point of letting priests marry

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce and alimony payments for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, B16?)

Afterwards I had a number of emails including one from a convert married priest.

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.

A priest has said the late Diana, Princess of Wales, asked him if she could marry her Muslim boyfriend Dodi Fayed in a church, shortly before she died.

He writes with feeling to a parent of the school, «I often think what poor creatures we priests are, who, like gentlemen of England, sit at home at ease, while you, married men, have all the merit of anxiety and toil which the care of a family involves.

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.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

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.

1 Timothy 3:5 means: «Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than oncOf one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than oncof bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.

In addition, the Catholic Church's handling of priest pedophilia was hindered by its long - standing labor shortage, a self - inflicted wound resulting from an unwillingness to ordain married and female clergy.

Episcopalians came because a king wanted divorce; Lutherans because of the indiscretions of the Catholic church toward the rich; Baptists so that its priests could marry.

How these positions are more absolutist and doctrinaire than his own commitment to the approval of homosexuality, women priests, and married priests is, as per usual, not made clear.

And even as important would be for priests to marry bringing an understanding of issues / problems of families.

(a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1 - 5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop can not oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again.

The canon specifically affirmed the rights of all Christians to marry, whether they be layperson, ordained priests or even bishops.

The priests, because of their role, were careful to avoid pollution, but by so doing cut themselves off from other castes and would not eat with or marry someone of a lower caste.

You make a fool out of yourself with a straw man about married priests though its funny you didn't talk to Peter's wife.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

An encyclical on love from a right - wing pope could only contain more damning condemnations of our materialistic, westernised society, more evocations of the «intrinsic evil» of contraception, married priests, homosexuality.

Maybe its because many of the independent Catholic churches are wise enough to allow their priests to marry.

Canon Jeremy Pemberton, a Church of England (C of E) priest for more than 30 years, had his permission to officiate revoked after he married Laurence Cunnington in April 2014.

But they forget, hindu filthy Enoch hindu's ignorant by faith prayed to as their RAM, deity of hindu pagan origin was married to his sister to keep hinduism racism intact, or their other hindu sanatans, filthy shaman man god such as Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle along with King James author of King James bible were young boys abusers by faith and followed by hindu's pagans of hindered gutter land india along with hindu priest of hindu pagan Catholicism, as a some thing of holy nature.

Canon Pemberton, a Church of England (C of E) priest for more than 30 years, had his permission to officiate revoked after he married his partner in April 2014.

I don't care if it's the LDS leaders, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, The Unification Church, Orthodox Church, Amish Bishops or your local priest, pastor, imam or rabbi — men love to control other men and tell them what to believe, how to dress, what to eat, what to wear, who to marry....

But in the Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet met and with the help of a priest, got married.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedop - hiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, imams, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for mur - der («Kings David and Henry VIII).

The church needs to get its act together, let priest marry and starting practicing the word of God instead of just taking about it Sunday mornings to an ever declining group of church goers.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized / «stoned» as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, archbishop Brady) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

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.

In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.

We write as a married Catholic priest and wife (ex-Anglicans) in response to the article by Fr Dylan James, «Contraception and the Imperfection of Natural Family Planning».

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedo - philiacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Cardinal Bevilacqua?

Or, in the case of married men, to become permanent deacons, another fast - growing group that is also compensating for the shortage of priests.