Sentences with phrase «of the priests against»

Philadelphia (CNN)- It's been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children.
She had to instead stay around the king's court to face charges of the priests against her faith.

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Amid a groundswell against the cardinal, including rare public rebukes from some of his own priests, Law asked to resign and the pope said yes.
More «Catholic priests are a bunch of pedophiles» and «I'm against pedophiles» posts by people who really know very little about pedophile statistics and just use these areticles to vent their anti-catholic prejudices.
A Mexican resident who says he was sexually abused by a priest as a child is suing the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Los Angeles and Mexico's top - ranking Catholic cleric, alleging they aided and abetted the abuse by moving the priest between dioceses as allegations piled up against him.
He wants YOU to stand against the wiles of Satan, and get rid of these «perfect popes» and priests, who hold the highest of places, and yet defile his very word, as they mo - lest little children.
Last week, an alleged victim of priest abuse in Wisconsin announced a lawsuit against the Vatican itself.
It also warned of the Lord's judgement against the Levites, who were the priest of Judea, and since they no longer honored the covenant with the Lord, the Lord no longer offer his protection over Israel, which allowed the Romans to destroy it and scatter it's people.
It is hard to believe that either new development — the widespread open rebellion against church sexual teachings by the laity, or the concomitant quiet rebellion against church sexual teachings by a significant number of priests — could have existed without the other.
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.
You can at least call a legally ordained priest to those who would be willing to confess of their transgressions against God.
The volunteer group of approximately 500 priests is currently working against South Korea's National Security Act.
If priests aren't taking a stand against the practice of having children kneel in front of lesser men... they are just wasting time and allowing the abuse to continue.
In 2015, Cardinal Cormac admitted feeling ashamed of his response to sex abuse allegations levelled against a priest Michael Hill in the 1980s.
It rules out anyone, priest or layman, encouraging them to go to Mass or giving them a ride to the church, letting them come to Bible studies or Sunday school, driving them to the doctor, giving them the food and clothing they need, counseling a pregnant woman against abortion or helping her take care of her baby.
Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.
My favorite part is this whole article by pro-Mormon propagandist writer Jessica Ravitz was the slam against the speeding CATHOLIC priest in a MERCEDES sliding in an underhanded implication of some alcohol, child molesting, inordinately and illegally rich priest driven (pun intended) to hunt down and kill Mormons on a beautiful, sunny day in France.
That could be the new motto of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, a plea for an end to the constant drumbeat of stories related to years and years of sexual abuse against boys by priests.
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.
The witness also said he was touched inappropriately by a priest while an altar boy at the orphanage, and called on the Pope to take action against the abusive figures, adding he wanted to see the Sister of Charity disbanded.
That is exactly what Jesus was fighting against, the hypocracy of the high Jewish priests.
He was a political activist, and most importantly he was rising up against the hypocracy of the Roman authority and the Jewish high priests, which were basically one in the same.
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.
The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).
Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).
Among them will be Iraq's Father Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest who was kidnapped, tortured, and shot before being released for ransom and who now cares for 500 ISIS survivors, and the daughters of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother on death row since 2010, for blasphemy against Islam.
Early in the narrative, after he has sought out a trusted priest to hear his confession, despite the risk entailed in the journey, Brossard thinks of absolution, a stay against his fear and guilt:
In 1993, Eileen's daughter, Stephanie, lodged a rape allegation against a priest in the archdiocese of Melbourne.
Victims of clerical sexual abuse will find it easier to bring compensation claims against the Catholic Church after a judge ruled it can be held responsible for the wrongdoings of its priests.
Bayhi has absolutely no way of defending himself against it even if he wants to), then what happened was an appalling dereliction of duty on the priest's part for which he would have to answer to God.
And if Judas knew of Jesus» claim to be Messiah, why was this testimony not produced against Jesus at his examination before the high priest?
In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»
Luke says, «to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him.»
``... 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»
Our vote for Obama must be not be interpreted as a vote for him - but a vote against allowing a satanic priest becoming the president of the most powerful country on earth.
Then Aquinas borrows Jerome's harsh words against those who pursue frivolous knowledge, thereby neglecting their duties: «We see priests forsaking the gospels and the prophets, reading stage - plays, and singing the love songs of pastoral idylls.»
The climax of the sacrifice consisted of the priests pouring the lamb's blood against the altar.
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.
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... I rest my case
Although I'm a somewhat spotty attender of church, I really like our priest because he does preach against greed, the wars, and about our duty (both as individuals and as a nation) to care for those who are in need, the sick, the very young and the very old.
Ireland introduced legislation in 2012 which made it a legal requirement to report knowledge of crimes against children, and made no exemption for priests who received information about crimes during confession.
A police constable - turned Anglican priest facing gross misconduct charges over the death of a musician has won a High Court ruling against a refusal to let him resign.
But a group that campaigns against abuse of children by priests said Sunday he was not fit for the job.
All presiding ministers of the Church, from the Pope and the bishops down to the parish priests and chaplains, exist only so that there may be Christians, that is men and women who believe, hope and love, who bear their cross, who see light even in darkness, who firmly hope even against hope, men who have the folly and the courage to love in a loveless world.
The John Jay Report revealed that a full 70 percent of the claimants against Catholic priests came forward not in the 1960s to 1980s, when the abuse was claimed to have occurred, but in 2002, when Church institutions were forced into «blanket settlements.»
Andrew Soper, who worked as headmaster and senior priest at the fee - paying St Benedicts School in Ealing, denies 19 offences of indecent assault and buggery against boys during the 1970s and 1980s.
For priests, too, are not necessarily immune against misunderstanding the historicity of the Church's doctrine and practice either from an irritable conservatism or from revolutionary progressivism.
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, King of Israel saying: «Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to hear all his words.
They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.
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