Fr Roger Nesbitt,
another of the young priests Fr Holloway influenced and who was to become his chief collaborator and the co-founder of the Faith Movement, has edited this text for publication.
This will draw together the experience of many
of the young priests associated with Faith movement who work in parish life.
Any visitor to a Faith conference is immediately struck by the number
of young priests and deacons in attendance.
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.
This Mass was begun five years ago at the initiative
of a young priest returning from studies in Rome, who noted with no small amount of irony that it seems the only Mass one can not find anywhere is the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite as it is envisioned by the current Missale Romanum.
Faith Movement is particularly blessed with a sizeable number
of younger priests who are working in parishes all over the UK.
When young Regan McNeil (Linda Blair) starts behaving very, very oddly, her mother (Ellen Burstyn) enlists the help
of a young priest (Jason Miller) and an old priest (Max Von Sydow) to do battle with the demon inside the child.
A serious - minded, more reality - based exorcism movie than most, this tale
of a young priest who's lost his faith being introduced to the world of demonic possession by a veteran exorcist (the always great Anthony Hopkins) is refreshingly restrained and cerebral in its approach.
I followed a link to a site that painted the ultimate hagiography
of a young priest marrying a Christian couple against the wishes of the Emperor Claudius II.
Not exact matches
This
young man was simply following the gospel and a kind word
of warning from his
priest which was - «There is no way you are going to wrestle and mount this
young lady in compromising positions in a tight High School uniform before I do, get in line sonny!»
Auto - editing or flat - out rewriting the prescribed text
of the Mass is virtually epidemic among
priests who attended seminary in the late Sixties, Seventies, or early Eighties; it's less obvious among the
younger clergy.
In a pivotal scene in Underworld (1997), a Jesuit
priest sits down with the protagonist, Nick Shay, when he is a
young man and asks him to name all the parts
of a shoe — the cuff, the counter, the welt, the vamp, the aglet, the grommet.
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the
young, new
priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded
young people who deserve doses
of freedom and respect as well.
For the
young priest and later pope, even celibacy is understood in the light
of matrimony, the sacrament by which the Creator revealed to humankind the communio
of His own nature.
another passing tought most
of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a
younger and stronger
priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc
of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs
of the past and mending and shapping the future
of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.
The Pope is also meeting with
young people at the shrine
of the first Korean Catholic
priest during Friday.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are
Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many
of the
priests used to «hang out» with the
young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
«It is degrading to an American to take everything on trust, and even the
young farmer and tradesman should scorn to surrender their right
of judging either to lawyers or
priests.»
Second, what about the presumption
of innocence for accused
priests, a right trumpeted in the Dallas Charter (Charter for the Protection
of Children and
Young People)?
All
of them shared a remarkable experience in their youth: As they were being formed into mature Christian adults by Wojtyla, they helped form an intellectually, athletically, and mystically gifted
young clergyman into one
of the most dynamic
priests of his generation, a pioneer in the pastoral strategy he called «accompaniment.»
Many scholars,
younger priests and even some bishops are found in this expression
of faith.
Funny how we all judge the
priest of the Catholic Church and are quick to point a finger... Ever think that this is all our fault for letting our world get so ugly... Yeah don't get me wrong it makes me mad to think that someone I am supposed to be able to trust can turn around and do this to
young boys.
Of course if you didn't think it was shocking to find
priests serially molesting
young male adherents, or that the current pope fought for nazi germany, maybe this newest development won't phase you either.
Holloway telling
of when he was a
young priest and knew a good lad, very keen on his faith, who was possibly a candidate for the priesthood.
Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with
young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets
of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any
priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament
of Penance will quickly find a line
of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power
of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.
Their support for the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, their thriving seminaries, their
young priests, and their joyful presence at great international Catholic gatherings, have all contributed to renewal and given fresh hope to the Church.
«The people and emphatically the
young, see the
priest as mirroring to them the personality
of Christ as Man.»
The
young priest who accompanied the students, the chaplain at the Newman Centre student parish, said that while he would perhaps not have been motivated to put in the time and effort to go to the March for Life on his own, the enthusiasm and desire
of his students convinced him that he needed to attend with them personally.
Back in November 1977 the co-founder
of Faith Movement wrote, as editor
of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the
younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach
priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage
of the Church, and the full content
of the life
of Christ in the traditional image
of the
priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood
of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood
of the fullness
of Peter and Paul.»
To
young priests and seminarians
of the first decades
of the 21st century, he is the hero figure
of the later decades
of the 20th, and as such a
priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment
of a call to the priesthood.
The protesters say they are upset, but not surprised, that three
priests, Edward Avery, Charles Engelhardt and James Brennan, as well as a teacher, Bernard Shero, were charged with sexually assaulting and raping two
young boys over a period
of several years.
Lisa Belcher Hamilton, an Episcopal
priest and
young widow, offers a great pastoral service with For Those We Love But See No Longer: Daily Offices for Times
of Grief.
If this life is lived with authenticity and commitment he foresees no shortage
of priests from all levels
of society but particularly from the
young.
The
priests have lost dominance
of the huddled masses that could be badgered with loss
of eternity soul.That Mr. pope NEEDS to have an internal audit and throw out anyone who can not keep his hands off
young boys.
Concrete signs
of the success
of the Pembury project are the explosion
of young families that have joined the congregation in the last four years and the fact that no fewer than five former Anglican clergymen have presented themselves at St Anselm's for reception into the Catholic Church, on their way to becoming Catholic
priests.
Many parents and
priests know, often with deep personal sadness, how a
young person may readily give notional assent to the words
of a respected and loved adult, only to reject what they have learned when other ideas, ambitions and desires overwhelm them.
Another
priest once told a story
of a
young boy who came regularly to serve at devotions and Benediction on a Friday night.
Fr Seward demonstrates how Newman's understanding
of friendship unfolded alongside his own personal development, as he evolved from the
young Calvinist suspicious
of all «natural affection» to the Catholic
priest steeped in the spirit
of St Philip Neri, «who in 16th - century Rome drew the
young towards the love
of God by the winning force
of his own personality».
For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as
young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter
of course and on ordinary terms.
The first talk was given by a
young Scottish
priest, Fr Martin Delaney, who explored the joy
of a life rooted in the sacraments.
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.
A
young priest showed me the façade
of a church that had been destroyed by the mining.
The
young priest condemned the event as an insult to the dead miners and a cheap distraction from the injustices
of the mines.
But beyond a look at how church officials covered up the abuse
of dozens
of young boys by
priests, the film is about dedication to the reporting process itself.
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.»
In the 1980s, a
young priest trained in classics at the University
of Oxford noted that, though the gospels are not biographies in a modern sense, that doesn't mean they are not biographies.
As a
young priest he spent time with the brothers
of the Society
of St. John the Evangelist; the crucible
of silence shaped his ministry.
The image
of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image
of a
young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image
of a woman who was sacked from the women's program
of her church because she refused to comply to the request
of the president
of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image
of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands
of her employer; the image
of a male
priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the
priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out
of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse
of the many such images that are gathered during the course
of this Decade.
A
priest at the Archbishop Kenough High School, where Sister Cesnik had been a teacher, had been accused
of sexually abusing
young students.
For decades, the mystery surrounding the death
of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The
young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern
of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by
priests and involving law enforcement.