Sentences with phrase «of priest tried»

I remember when a couple of priest tried to make the move on me as a teen.

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It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.

And now some groups are still trying to lay blame for something no one can prove ever even happened on specific racial groups who may or may not be the descendants of a small group of priests who may or may not have conspired to have a certain carpenters son murdered.

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic Church went to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the Church sold them as a means for believers to get out of Purgatory.

From the religious atrocities of the reformation and the counterreformation, the inquisition, several dozen crusades, to the modern day Church protecting pedophile priests, and insisting on no birth control in AIDS ridden countries, and mindless zealots trying to pretend that what has been proven by science should be subsumed under their fairy tales.

I think Jesus may well have come back to earth in the form of this priest (at least possessing his body and mind) to try to make the world a better place us all to live.

Had your mom wanted to become a priest she would have been thrown out of the church just for trying, I'm not sure how that could be viewed as anything other than oppression.

Peter tried to defend his Master with a sword, and he cut off the ear of the high priest's slave.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

So many kind - hearted and compassionate priests tried to change our minds, even to the extent of giving us an article penned by the Canadian Bishops refuting it.

In particular, I have tried to understand how this great scientist who became a close friend of Albert Einstein was also a priest, faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church and deeply rooted in his spiritual and sacerdotal life.

But he too tried to blame the victim, saying he (the 15 year old boy) made the first move... it is sickening to hear someone in even more authority would say such a thing... car accident or not, he needs to be removed from his position of HELPING other priests...

Francis said the Catholic Church knew well the «grave error» of trying to conceal the problem of sexual abuse, a reference to the church's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up for them.

What those ideas were or could lead to is best summed up in a remark by Einstein who in 1950 tried to assure a close friend that he had not yet fallen into the hands of priests.

In 1965 1 had already tried for ten years to cope with a throat condition that barred me from the public use of my voice whether as a priest or a professor.

The priests who molest children are not doing God's will and are a mockery of what Christ tried to establish.

Tuck to accuse little children of wanting to take part in the molestation, and to try to protect the priest from going to jail.

You will recall that Judas in remorse tried to return the thirty pieces of silver, cut the chief priest would not accept them.

In their reaction to such secularization of the office some men try to return to the idea of the preacher or of the priest.

Some of the pieces are an embarrassment (as in the «Playing with the Big Boys» in which the priests of Egypt try to intimidate Moses), while others are simply clumsy (as in the opening «Deliver Us»).

its unfortunate that he tried to do so much good but becuase the curch dealt so poorly with the pedophile priest all many of you can see is his failing.

Wojtyla's true worth will be estimated by how he tried to cover - up the abuse of children by catholic priest.

Fr Holden, assistant priest in St Augustine's, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and co-author of the popular Evangelium catechetical resource brings out the traditional context in which Pope Benedict is trying to place modern scriptural exegesis, and the great enrichening for all this could involve.

Trying to re-fashion human nature through willpower is a doomed project - particularly in the formation of priests.

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

The fact that atheists might be right and all the excuses you made for the «imperfect» priests and pastors, the money you gave, the countless Sunday mornings you sacraficed, the stress you accepted by trying to meet a deities excpectation but always falling short and the people you discriminated against due to their lack of faith in your deity is what scares the crepe out of Christians.

Early signs have been troubling, as when a Moscow Patriarchate priest tried to take possession of a Kyivan Patriarchate church on a naval base that the Ukrainians abandoned.

Is this priest trying to single handily destroy the Catholic church with his archaic and antiquated understanding of child abuse?

A Lefebvrist priest — members of the Society of St Pius X have long been fervent supporters of the Fatimist conspiracy theories — tried to stab him while he was at the shrine.

«Add to that the various pressing problems facing the Roman Catholic Church — the priest abuse scandal, the challenges of feminism, Islam, rising secularism — and he took the reins at a very trying time.»

i am on the side of kids... you should try reading peoples posts... i direct my comments toward ped priests and those that harbor them....

Any Catholic priest / bishop who denies knowledge of abuse is just trying to cover their own behind, and likely trying to cover the behinds of little boys all at the same time.

(CNN)- Retired Pope Benedict XVI says he never tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, breaking his post-retirement silence to address one of the greatest threats to his legacy as a church leader.

I would have preferred to visit you in your home, to personally express my condolences, and try to comfort you with the immortal teaching of the Gospel, but since this is not manageable, I am sending you this letter through your parish priest.

im still trying to figure out if your a priest and defends them because of that or if your something much worse...

In 2007, the Vatican issued a decree saying that the attempted ordination of women would result in the automatic excommunication for the woman and the priest trying to ordain her.

In that context I am reminded of a shrewd observation by the late Rus sian Orthodox priest, Father Alexander Schmemann: «Lately Catholicism is trying to follow suit [in aping the Protestants] with a dull social message and service to the world.»

A number of Catholic priests have been injured trying to stop the demolition of their church in China's... More

Thirty - some years ago, I spent a fair amount of time on religious freedom issues; which meant, in those simpler days, trying to pry Lithuanian priests and nuns out of Perm Camp 36 and other GULAG islands.

More likely, of course, is that no priest would want to try and judge which of his parishioners» souls are in mortal sin.

Because we are sick of religion trying to shove IT down our throats that in the end they win, where's all the hoopla on the many priests, reverends and other church goers who turned Atheists when the light finally went off.

While dissidents within the Church may try to use this year's low numbers in New York to bolster their calls for women's ordination and a removal of the celibacy requirement for priests, the latest data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) reveals that ordination rates to the priesthood are at a 20 year high.

When the secular press tried to make an issue of Morlino's meddling in politics, blurring the line between church and state, or coercing his priests, Morlino didn't back down.

First to try were the priests of Baal.

Tragically, a large number of Bishops did not always follow «state» laws... whether trying to protect «guilty» priests, plain ignorance or viewing canon law as taking precedence over «state» laws (versus running parallel to them).

A regime tries to repress an idea by attempting to free Mexico of all Catholic priests.

I got to know about Priest eka who treated someone and the person shared a story of how she got a cure and let her contact details, i contacted priest eka and he actually confirmed it and i decided to give a try too and use his herbal medicine that was how my burden ended completely.

A group of nuns and a priest symbolically crucify a lesbian who is trying to get her former lover to leave the convent.

And on the advice of his employers, he's trying to keep to himself, though he's befriended a local priest, Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli), and his relationship with a prostitute, Clara (Violante Placido), is threatening to turn into something more.