Sentences with phrase «on married priests»

One of the difficulties frequently when discussing vocations is the general lack of understanding of the Church's present opinion on married priests and woman priests.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Reality Check # 2: Contrary to what you may have read on Facebook, pastors and priests will not be forced to marry same - sex couples or be fined for refusing to... just as they are not presently forced to marry interfaith couples if their tradition opposes it, or cohabitating couples if their tradition opposes it, or divorcees if their tradition opposes it, or interracial couple if their tradition opposes it.

This could infact help the pope to change its plieis on priests getting married.

In fact, the priest - author goes on to declare, single women should be glad they are not married since spiritually they are well - circumstanced.

On married and celibate priests in the Orthodox Church, ZENIT, February 28, 2000.

(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.

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.

My parents disagree with the Church's stance on birth control and I do believe women should be allowed to be priests more so then allowing priests to marry.

The ban on priests marrying must go first.

I love to tell them that this day is actually in honor of the priest Saint Valentine, who secretly performed weddings for Chistians, who were forbidden to marry under the Roman Empire — therefore he got imprisoned and executed on the 14th of February.

Some wanted to make sure it was PG friendly (aka no mention of what was going on beneath his kilt), some wanted to get his full name (James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser) and others were picking the passage based on their favourite scenes, like me, I love the scene where Marsala marries Fergus on the beach with the crazy priest and the sheep, so I had to find a passage that fit inside the cookie cutter that you could still read.

Married, Rules dating and relationship coach, author of two best - selling books, «How to Date — Single Girls» Dating Manual» and «Why Men Ask Dumb Most of us don't often think of Catholic priests as authorities on dating and relationships (in fact the popular belief is exactly the opposite), but the

The Garden Of Allah — The beautiful gold tones of two - strip Technicolor are about the only highlight of this Marlene Dietrich melodrama about a priest on the run who marries a saintly woman (Dietrich, if you can buy that).