Sentences with phrase «serve as priests»

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

It's high time the Catholic Church embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and bishops.

Just for kicks, you might want to compare Zoroastrianism, the religious tradition that the Magi likely served as priests within, with Christianity.

Frankly, the argument over women versus men serving as priests is trite, silly and nothing to do with a belief in God.

It did mean two things: that a specially designated hierarchy as a channel of access to God was rejected; and that, under some conditions, any Christian might properly serve as priest to any other.

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

When Father Boyle was serving as a priest in East LA, he buried an alarming number of young people involved in gangs.

Between 1994 and 2000, she served as a priest in Oregon, working closely with the Latino community.

He said that the sons of the High Priest Eli were serving as priests when Eli became very old.

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It alleges that Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony and Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera knew the priest - identified in the suit as Nicholas Aguilar Rivera - was abusive but authorized him to move back and forth between Mexico and the U.S. and to continue serving in parishes.

Bishop - elect Stock, 53, was ordained as a priest in 1988 and served as parish priest across the Archdiocese of Birmingham, most recently at the parish of The Sacred Heart and St Teresa in Coleshill.

Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Major rescue networks were centered in Genoa under the leadership of the Jesuit Cardinal Pietro Boetto, who worked closely with the Jewish emigration agency DELASEM, and in Milan under the leadership of a Jesuit priest who served as Cardinal Schuster's head of the office of religious assistance.

The arrangement of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013, when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop of Qatar.»

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

And those who have the privilege of being selected to go to heaven, serve in an official capacity as «kings and priests» (Rev 1:6), not as equals to God, but as 144,000 individuals who recognize that God, whose name is Jehovah, is the Grand Creator of all the universe, with these ones casting their crowns before God's throne, saying: «You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.»

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

People look at this from the stand point of NOW... the early religious building were built to overwhelm and scare people so as to control them... early religious structure were not for the people to ENTER... they were places where the priest visited to SERVE THE GODS THAT LIVE OR VISITED THERE... AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE SECRET UNSEEN GODS to convey to the people... this goes back even before the great Egyptian temples and gods... way way back into prehistory.

But normally the life of the consecrated virgin is rooted in the particular situation of her parish, in which she will wish to be a supportive and unobtrusive presence, in cooperation with her parish priest, and to serve as he considers appropriate.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

Tomas Halik, a Catholic priest, teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague and serves as President of the Czech Christian Academy.

Charlie Coen, a Galway native who has served as a parish priest in the greater New York area since his ordination in 1968.

Man will never be a «God», but was created to live on the earth forever, with only a limited number of 144,000 going to heaven (Rev 14:1, 4) to serve in the official capacity of «kings and priests» as members of God's heavenly kingdom.

Drinan served five terms (1971 — 1981) as a US representative from Massachusetts, until the Pope declared that priests should not hold elective office.

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and India, serving as a Roman Catholic priest and as a professor of Religious Studies.

He has served as hospital chaplain, parish priest, Dean of Studies at Oscott seminary and vicargeneral of Shrewsbury diocese, and is a popular speaker at catechetical events and at theological conferences.

After serving as a model priest and prelate, he became an equally beloved pontiff, convening Vatican II and articulating the timelessness of the Church's teachings.

Indeed, as a result of the perfect freedom and the voluntarism born of pluralism, the American church boasted a vital, generous membership served by a necessarily vigilant and attentive body of priests and religious.

He is an Anglican priest who served the Church of Wales as a parish vicar in several small rural churches before retiring in 1978.

When I served as a rural priest in Tamilnadu in the 1980s I was intrigued to discover how many Dalit Christian communities wanted their native Dalit religious rites and Christian rites to co-exist.

Within this continuing community were particular individuals who served as exemplars in subsequent recollection: Abraham, Moses, David, the great prophets, priests and rabbis.

By their teaching and judging, priests served as guardians of Israel's holiness.

As I have indicated previously, many of them had «jobs» in their home towns, which provided food and clothing for themselves and their families, but when they went to serve in the Temple for two weeks a year, part of the meat of the sacrifices went to feed the priests.

Farrer (1904 - 1968) was an Anglican priest who served as Fellow and Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford from 1935 - 1960, then as Warden of Keble College from 1960 until his death in 1968.

Efforts to remove chastity requirements from gay PCUSA clergy had met defeat last year during an eventful summer which saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote in August to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, following the Episcopal Church's reaffirmation in July of its openness to noncelibate gay priests.

One Sunday in high school, we went to the Anglo - Catholic parish where my headmaster served as an assistant priest.

But perhaps it is better to leave priest and layman to fulfill their vocations without mixing them; meanwhile, the Trappist monk going from the altar to milk the cows may serve to represent the principle that no honorable labor is unbefitting the priesthood as such.

Even broader than the vocation of the priests who serve the underprivileged is that of those who have been led to share in movements for social reform, F. D. Maurice's Christian Socialism grew directly out of his theology and his view of the Church as the Kingdom of Christ and the priest as its servant.

The movie tells the story of Jesuit priests (played by Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield), who are persecuted for their faith while serving as missionaries to Japan in 1639.

As one of the Founding residents of Mount Madonna Center, Janardan has served the community as Personnel Administrator, Construction Supervisor, Yoga Instructor, Board Member of Hanumān Fellowship and Sri Ram Foundation, Pujari (priest) of Vedic Ceremonies, and Head of development and operation of the Sankaṭ Mochan Hanumān Temple CompleAs one of the Founding residents of Mount Madonna Center, Janardan has served the community as Personnel Administrator, Construction Supervisor, Yoga Instructor, Board Member of Hanumān Fellowship and Sri Ram Foundation, Pujari (priest) of Vedic Ceremonies, and Head of development and operation of the Sankaṭ Mochan Hanumān Temple Compleas Personnel Administrator, Construction Supervisor, Yoga Instructor, Board Member of Hanumān Fellowship and Sri Ram Foundation, Pujari (priest) of Vedic Ceremonies, and Head of development and operation of the Sankaṭ Mochan Hanumān Temple Complex.

There's also the priest, who had an affair years ago and fathered a bastard child whom Jack meets, but the secret really serves no purpose save for making the priest a man who understands the psychological trauma in harboring dark secrets — a clichéd archetype in better films such as Odd Man Out (1947), or rendered more interminable in clunkers like Prayer for the Dying (1987).

An eerie and sometimes harrowing story of disgraced Catholic priests confined to a seaside home, the movie overtly references the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the Church internationally, but the story also serves as a sly metaphor for the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the 1970s, which Larraín's parents supported.

Naturally, a priest enters the scene — Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), a onetime scientist who now serves as an investigator for the Vatican.

Ordained in 1984, Father Ron Nuzzi has served as a parish priest, teacher, school administrator, university professor, and retreat leader.

It was a foolish idea, as only priests served the goddesses of the great city temples, while the priestesses served gods.