Sentences with phrase «proportion of the priests»
Both gay and straight priests, as well as former seminarians, acknowledge that, as many priests left to marry, the proportion of priests who were gay increased dramatically, and in some places, gay subcultures flourished.
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It has been blown so out of proportion, the priest scandal.
There are in fact a few such parishes, where individual confessions have dramatically increased in proportion to the generous availability of the priests.
Since ministers and priests are as human as other people, a certain proportion are bound to have mental and physical ills, in all degrees, regardless of their dedication to their faith and their work.
So also «P,» the latest process of collection to attain fixed proportions, draws from the common mine of tradition, broad and deep, until its own fluidity is arrested when it is combined, probably by the same continuing community of priests who formed it, with «JE.»
Betrayals and doubts of biblical proportion desperately drive Dick to seek out the counsel of the parish priest.