Sentences with phrase «of priests under»

As it also turns out, one of the priests under him was molesting boys.

Not exact matches

I left the RC church (under the counsel of a charasmatic priest), studied in the ministry's program, and four years later was ordained in a pentacostal church... pastored by a woman.

Major rescue networks were centered in Genoa under the leadership of the Jesuit Cardinal Pietro Boetto, who worked closely with the Jewish emigration agency DELASEM, and in Milan under the leadership of a Jesuit priest who served as Cardinal Schuster's head of the office of religious assistance.

A native - born individual alone could take the throne, his powers to tax would be low, he would not be allowed to establish diplomatic ties with other countries through intermarriage, and he would be required to study the laws of his office under the supervision of the Levitical priests.

By 2020, there will be about 31,000 priests — and only 15,000 will be under the age of 70.

the same priests that take an oath under God to do good mispresent themselves again and again its morally not right» anybody under legal law to be molested in the name of religion is wrong dead wrong and the point is a pedaphile can never be cured sp whats the alternative (death that way innocence is not lost on bottom dweelers) i say feet first in a meat grinder in low gear i'm just saying

It was under the care of a catholic charismatic priest that I left the church, so arulba, I guess there were a few of them around.

Mutatis mutandis, these words apply to priests» perception of bishops — who do not, let it be noted, fall under the strictures of their own Charter.

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.

1500 years of emperors and priest forcing belief under penalty of death, and there'd be a billion faithful worshipers of Mullet Man lol just lol.

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.

The government has created the State Administration for Religious Affairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal affairs of religious organizations.

Over 4300 priest have been accused and / or convicted of raping children just in the USA (almost always boys under 14 year old).

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

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 desires.

We find some affinity with some of the other Movements: like them we have grown and flourished though on a more modest scale and with a quite different style: we are much smaller, we are not international, we own no properties or schools, and our priests are all diocesan, working in parishes under the direction of their bishops.

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.

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.

From the day of my ordination onwards I shall be serving a parish of around 10,000 people in a town near my home in Southwest England, under the careful supervision of its vicar, or parish priest.

Bishops, etc should spend more time and effort assuring the safety and well being of those who fall under the supervision of wayward priests, their stewardship over the last 30 years leaves much to be desired.

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.»

29:26 that the associations of kohanim (priests) and nebi'im (prophets) were organized under a common leader entitled kohen, and the conclusion is drawn that the classical nabi» too was a cult functionary.

The Order of Preachers was revolutionary in that previously, priests received their faculties to preach from their bishop, but this was an Order independent of the bishops, but under papal authority to preach.

In large parts of the Southwest, but not only in the Southwest, the majority of those with whom priests work are in the country under circumstances that are at least legally doubtful.

Within the Church the impact of the pontificate of Blessed John Paul, and its consolidation under Pope Benedict, has provided a new generation of young priests who are firmly orthodox and fully aware of what is going on in education.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

Oh that's right it was all burned in one big fire under the orders of the Catholic priest Diego de Landa, because he thought the Mayans needed Jesus, and all other writngs were heresy.

Under Church of England rules, for a measure like the one proposed by Williams and Sentamu to pass, it needed majority support from three different groups: bishops, priests and lay leaders.

It did mean two things: that a specially designated hierarchy as a channel of access to God was rejected; and that, under some conditions, any Christian might properly serve as priest to any other.

The victims were under the responsibility of the range of people working in the church - priests, brothers, pastoral workers and lay persons, it says.

Perhaps this is why prisons are full of christians, why television evangelists are surrounded by scandal, why the catholic church is under fire for protecting pedophile priests.

Now I understood why a particularly conscientious priest always thrust a small plate, or paten, under the chins or hands of communicants, a paten which he later carefully cleaned.

It was thought that the significance of baptism was not in the symbol of going under the water and then rising back up as though from the dead, but in the power of the water itself after it had been blessed by a priest.

Until his retirement, you've been under the Bishop of London, who doesn't ordain women as priests.

I am a priest in a church which, like most churches, threatens to collapse under the weight of a perverse notion of a sexuality that is to be neither celebrated nor related to other issues of love and justice.

20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you» — 21 then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the cu «rse, and he shall say to the woman — «the Lord make you a cu «rse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell; 22 and may this water that causes the cu «rse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.

The poor countries (writes the Peruvian priest, Father Gustavo Gutierrez) are becoming ever more clearly aware that their under development is only the by - product of the development of other countries....

They eventually make their way to another village which has converted to Christianity under the ministry of some priests.

Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

Since all of these pedo priest stories can no longer be swept under the rug, the rules have changed.

Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era of German world domination under the leadership of wise pagan priests — an empire of light, inhabited by noblemen, which would be cleansed of all Judeo - Christian influence.

He appears to have died of a heart attack and is the third priest killed or to have died under suspicious circumstances in Mexico in a week.

This is the meaning of certain comments on the monarchs found in our Books of Kings; it is in large part the viewpoint of the Chronicler; it is freely expressed in the chapters added to the prophecies of Ezekiel in which the function of «the prince» is little more than one of leadership in ritual under the priests.

I have been present at celebrations of the Mass of Paul VI in the diocese of Plymouth in which (for all Bishop Budd's demands now that priests should be «competent» to celebrate the 1962 Rite, and scrupulous in observing its rubrics) the officiating priest was neither particularly «competent», even in English, nor was he in any way concerned scrupulously to adhere to the rubrics — or does rubrical scrupulosity not apply under the Spirit of Vatican II?

How could Romney sit under and practice the teachings of a religion that until the late 1970's decree and believe that African - Americans were decendents of Cain and therefore cursed, that they were not allowed to become priests and take part in the churchs» sacraments?

The only foothold for Episcopal control is in the following from article 5, which suggests that the priest should «ensure that the welfare of these faithful harmonises with the ordinary pastoral care of the parish, under the guidance of the bishop in accordance with canon 392, avoiding discord and favouring the unity of the whole Church.»

In Nicaragua, priest and Levite could be the United States that kept to the other side of the road when this Central American nation languished in the ditch under a dictator's heel.

He notes, for example, that in Under His Very Windows she ignores the important and well - known memoir Christian Resistance to Anti-Semitism by the French Jesuit theologian, priest - rescuer, and defender of Pius XII, Henri de Lubac.