Sentences with phrase «own married priests»

«Father Cutie» can now rejoin the RCC as a married priest just like many Episcopalian priests and bishops are doing these days.

She had not intended to marry a priest and initially refused to countenance the idea, so Geoff returned to his role as an administrator in the Malayan Civil Service.

He could join then redounce those vows and then rejoin Catholicism as a married priest just like many Episcopalian priests and bishops are doing these days.

For instance, the left uses it to agitate for married priests while the right uses it to indict the bishops for general laxity in enforcing orthodox faith and life.

It is their married priests who can convert to Catholicism and be accepted as priests, even with wives and children in tow.

«Particularly, for this issue of married priests, it is a practice of the Church and it has been for hundreds of years but it's not doctrine - it is open for debate.»

Afterwards I had a number of emails including one from a convert married priest.

The Eastern practice is also affirmed and it is assumed that married priests were apostolic in origin.

It seems that the one thing everyone knows about the Eastern Churches is that «they have married priests.»

How these positions are more absolutist and doctrinaire than his own commitment to the approval of homosexuality, women priests, and married priests is, as per usual, not made clear.

You make a fool out of yourself with a straw man about married priests though its funny you didn't talk to Peter's wife.

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.

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

I wish American Catholics would exercise their gonads, and form an independant American Catholic Church: Married priests, women priests, transparent finances, each church governed by a board (vestry) and contraception is OK.

There are lots of married priests in the CC.

In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.

The practice of celibate bishops (with the allowance of married priests) was

In May he urged other Church leaders to «listen without any taboo to the arguments in favour of married priests, the Eucharist for the divorced, and homosexuality.»

Rather than censure nuns why not open the priesthood to marriage and 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 one word about abortion, contraception, married priest or women priests in Christs words.

As is also well known, the Eastern - rite traditions have a different perspective, in some circumstances allowing married priests.

Celibacy is disciplinary, not doctrinal, and there are many married priests within the Catholic Church.

I would point that we Eastern Orthodox have done just fine having married priests for all these centuries.

by opening the priesthood to married priests and women they attract a normal population of people to the priesthood.

Some mistakenly think of us as «Catholic, but without the Pope,» or «Catholic, except with married priests.»

Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz, promoter of Indulgences, pluralist, who at one time thought of publicly marrying one of his mistresses, and at other times bitterly persecuted married priests in his diocese, sent Luther and Katie a wedding present of twenty guilders.

Legend says that the empress of Coba married a priest from Tikal, which may explain the similarities in architectural style.

Not exact matches

The result is this 270 - page formal letter, called an apostolic exhortation, addressed to bishops, priests, married couples, and lay people about «love in the family.»

I guess if someone believes that the Catholic Church is the only true religion / church / mechanism for salvation and they want to be a priest and the want to be married after becoming a priest, then they might have a problem.

If anyone had asked me what I thought about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its priests can marry.

How many times do you think that priest has knowingly given communion to legally married ex-divorcees who haven't had an annulment?

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

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Bevilacqua?)

Speaking with HLN's Richelle Carey to promote his best - selling book, «Dilemma,» Cutie (pronounced koo - tee - AY) criticized Catholic doctrine that prohibited priests from marrying.

I just say let the g@ys be open and you would prevent a lot of problems, along with letting married men be priests.

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.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

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.

By the way there is far more of this behavior occuring by married men than by celibate priests in society.

The issue of whether priests should be allowed to marry is utterly separate from the issue of child abuse by clergy.

Orthodox priests have always been allowed to marry UNLESS THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO BECOME MONKS for themselves.

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.

Maybe the Catholic Church will finally let priests marry...

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.

If they would allow priests to marry ths might not happen but I don't know where they get the idea they can't marry, my Bible doesn't say anything about a man of God not being able to marry.

No doubt this is mainly due to the Catholic Church's policy of keeping its sins secret by protecting them since the early Church policy of preventing priests from marrying.

Which is why I think priests should marry.

According to ancient Jewish canon (law) a priest (of which Jesus was one) was required to be at least 30 years old, married and have children BEFORE becoming a priest so that he would be able to understand the problems and conflicts of marriage and parenthood.

Someone made a good point of letting priests marry