Sentences with phrase «significant number of priests»

A more obedient laity might have wondered aloud about the fact that a significant number of priests post-Vatican II seemed more or less openly gay.

It is hard to believe that either new development — the widespread open rebellion against church sexual teachings by the laity, or the concomitant quiet rebellion against church sexual teachings by a significant number of priests — could have existed without the other.

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While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

There is a pastoral emergency as a result of a significant increase in the number of diabolical possessions that exorcist priests are confronting.»

If a significant number of theologians, bishops, and priests operate with a concept of conscience (and perhaps seemingly with the Pope's blessing) that reduces objective absolute moral norms to optional guidelines, that concept will free Catholics individually to determine what is right and wrong not just about divorce and remarriage, but about many other issues.

For example, restricting the disclosure of an individual's religious affiliation, room number, and health status to a priest could cause significant delay that would inhibit the ability of a Catholic patient to obtain sacraments provided during the last rites.