Sentences with phrase «priest at my mother»

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(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.

According to the grand jury report, Neill told the victim assistance coordinator that during his childhood, Gallagher discussed masturbation during confession; fondled him during outings in the priest's car, at the house of the priest's mother, upstairs in the rectory, in a utility room in the sacristy and in a loft in the church; and that the priest also hit the boy.

He tells the story of a conference he was at where he asked a Catholic priest what Jesus meant by «unless you hate your mother and father you can not be my disciple» and the priest waffled and said he wasn't prepared to answer such a difficult question.

I am that rare soul who can remember his First Confession, at age eight, very nearly word - for - word — I think because I was terrified, and hyper - alert, and intent on remembering everything that Father Newman said, mostly because it was my First Confession and I was afraid I would be sent to prison or farmed out to the Lutherans for the many times I had committed fisticuffs with my brothers and failed to honor my mother and father — but also because Father Newman was wry and funny and fond of reminding everyone that he was, as far as he knew, the only Jewish Catholic priest in the diocese.

While the show tells a different story, its primary protagonists are, as in the book and movie, two troubled priests who agree to fight a possessing demon at the request of the victim's mother (played by Geena Davis).

But did that stop my mother from forcing me at the age of 13 to lie to a priest and tell him I wanted to be baptized?

She travelled with the priest and another local girl to begin as novices at the Mother House in Rome where St Bridget herself lived.

At a recent day of ongoing formation for priests, one of the speakers — herself a mother of four as well as a respected theologian and writer — was addressing the theme of the day: Home is a Holy Place.

These circumstances prompted indignant protest from Mother Martha, the priest at St. Ann's.

Filmmaker Damon Cardasis discovered a program by an Episcopal parish in New York's West Village that targets at risk LGBTQ youth through his mother, an Episcopalian priest in the Bronx.

The opening scene, set in 1976 in a Boston police precinct is glimpse at what was to come: a priest has been brought in on allegations of abuse, the victim and their mother are cajoled, arrangements are made for secrecy, said priest is collected by his superior who sweeps while the judiciaries hold the rug.

In 1950s Ireland, Ellis is sent across the big blue at the behest of her mother and older sister Rose to accept work proffered by family friend and Catholic priest Fr.

Born in 1915 and 1914, respectively, they both grew up in Mississippi — my father in the small rural town of Utica, where his parents both taught at a boarding school, the only school for blacks within a 200 - mile radius; and my mother in Vicksburg, where her father was an Episcopal priest and her mother a schoolteacher.