Sentences with phrase «ordaining married»

Letting priests marry and ordaining married priests are two different questions.

Pope Francis has said it's time for the Catholic Church to consider whether it's possible to ordain married... More

In addition, the Catholic Church's handling of priest pedophilia was hindered by its long - standing labor shortage, a self - inflicted wound resulting from an unwillingness to ordain married and female clergy.

Steinfels notes that the Protestants studied are in «a church that ordains married men and women; does not condemn contraception, abortion, or remarriage after divorce; is inclusive in its criteria for membership; prides itself on affirming American values; and emphasizes democratic decision making and the laity's right to participate in congregational spending, selecting pastors, and determining official church positions.

The Roman church's willingness to lose an ordained priesthood altogether rather than ordain married men or (horrors) women may be noble to some, but to more and more American Catholics, it appears as suicidal self - delusion.

The Church could choose to ordain married men but doesn't.

Not exact matches

These two teams need to be married, and the only person who has the authority to «ordain» this marriage is the CEO.

Anglican priest and now Episcopalian priests can become ordained priests in the Catholic Church even if married.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The pontiff has requested a debate over allowing married men in the Amazon region of Brazil to be ordained if they are men of great faith.

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministry.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

The canon specifically affirmed the rights of all Christians to marry, whether they be layperson, ordained priests or even bishops.

The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.

Its eagerness to ordain old men or widowers and married men into the diaconate appear as desperate avoidance mechanisms and an expression of fear and loathing toward normal sexual beings and above all toward women's bodies.

Priests have never married (once ordained) but married men have been ordained.

Deacon Russell Arnett, now Father Arnett, was first ordained in the Episcopal Church where priests are allowed to marry.

Even HE can not understand why the church won't allow women to be ordained as priests, or why priests can not be married.

Still others might argue that a more influential and long - term movement in the church catholic is the trend of people leaving the Catholic Church because it will not ordain women or allow priests to marry.

3) Question: My wife and I were married by a Universal Life minister who was ordained online on some website.