Sentences with phrase «ordination because»

A friend who is a priest explained to me that he does not openly oppose women's ordination because he knows several nuns who «suffer greatly» because they can not be priests.

Not exact matches

Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee issued among the earliest calls for withdrawing the draft because it did not go far enough — presumably because it did not call for the ordination of women to the priesthood.

He had received a backlash because of his opposition to women's ordination in the Church.

GOD will bless America if Romney elected for president, because he is from JESUS CHRIST later days saints church, and his ordination as Bishop is from GOD.

Just so, the priest is «alone» but not lonely because through the character of soul he receives at ordination, Christ is always with him.

Pope Benedict XVI «deplored» the «illicit» ordination of the Rev. Joseph Huang Bingzhang and expelled him from the church because he was «ordained without papal mandate,» the Vatican said Saturday.

Is the gender inclusion more pressing because it doesn't actually affect his own position, whereas to say the same about gender identity and sexual orientation issues would require him to lay aside his own ordination?

Only later did I become involved with Roman Catholic groups such as the Women's Ordination Conference or the National Assembly of Religious Women, which contacted me because of my position at Notre Dame.

Yet even he can scarcely understand that his rite of public penance and purification will also be the rite of ordination of the great High Priest who is to come, and thereafter of all of us who are to have access to the Holy of Holies because of his sacrifice.

Catholic priests take the title «Father» because they put on the person and character of Christ at their ordination.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

St. Augustine regarded his ordination as a grave danger to his salvation, because he knew he would have to answer to God for the souls of all those in his diocese.

Kaveny gives the impression that Neuhaus established ties with Evangelicals mainly because of common positions on same - sex marriage, abortion, women's ordination, etc..

Those who favor women's ordination argue that women can represent Christ as well as men because femaleness is an attribute along the lines of Jewishness.

Post-Reformation issues such as papal infallibility, the Marian dogmas, ordination of women, and contraception are «tests of catholicity» precisely because they divide people who consider themselves part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

Naturally if Episcopalians are disaffected because of the ordination of an openly gay priest, then flock to the RCC.

Some Episcopals are desparate to leave their church due to the ordination of g - ay clergy, and the Catholic Church is desperate for more priests because of dwindling numbers of men who are «called» to the priesthood.

He doesn't need to wash his hands, because Jesus has already set him apart by the laying on of hands; he was vested at ordination.

That's because Tony Jones, theologian - in - residence at Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has developed an application, or «app,» that allows iPhone users to experience mock ordinations in more than two dozen faiths.

Cyprian's ideal is likewise a martyr bishop, but because he must counter the rival claims of the confessors to bind and to loose by virtue of their witnessing to Christ, Cyprian must, unlike Ignatius, reach back explicitly to the prerogatives of the apostles and notably Peter.87 Cyprian called Peter a bishop88 and regarded every bishop as filled with the Holy Spirit89 and as the vicar of Christ, succeeding by vicarious ordination to the apostles.90 Thus Cyprian found the essence and fulfillment of the Church in the bishop:

Not staying because 1) I have to work the next 2 days and 2) Hubby heads off to his ordination retreat on Wednesday.