Sentences with phrase «than a priest»

It became a model for Protestant states, where generally the prince, rather than a priest, was head of the church, and at the highest level directed its affairs.

This story has been repeated over and over all over the world, probably more often than priest meets boy.

stephen it is mathematically likely that a higher percentage of atheists molest children than priests > The rate for priests is less than 2 %.

Fathers abuse their children more than priests in society today.

I know the nuns do more for the church than a priest, bishop or pope can do.

That is really all the likes of you are about is having a little fruedian orgazzzm about how good and better than priests and Catholics you are.

There are higher percentages of child molesters in these groups than priests.

The nuns of the Catholic church do far more of «God's work», and are much better followers of Jesus» mission than the priests or cardinals of the church.

Saying the child seduces the adult is saying the child understands long - term ramifications of life - changing experiences, which of course they do not — the child can not possibly have better judgment than the priest.

If you truly believe in God, you would turn your back on the Church faster than a priest could say, «Want some candy little boy?»

I think nuns live lives more closely related to Christ's teachings than the priests and those in the Vatican do.

Another child, who earlier had seemed more inclined to accept the lieutenant's world view than the priest's, ultimately gives his loyalty to the priest.

For all, least no less than greatest, all are out for dishonest gain; prophet no less than priest, all practise fraud.

The priesthood was concerned with people's «souls», and nothing could be of a higher or more wonderful stature than the priest.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

As priests have employed older sources, including their own, in the Tetrateuch, so deuteronomists have worked (and apparently more self - assertively than the priests) with the likes of J and E, and their own Deuteronomy, in the Deuteronomic Work.

The conservatism in adopting the pope's line on climate change in some parts of the country may have more to do with the parishioners than the priests.

At times, he feels more like an over-worked psychiatrist than a priest, although we can see that McDonagh wants to point out the lack of difference between the two professions.

«You know, there's nothing more off - putting in a wedding than a priest with an enormous erection, yech!»

Ministers begin to see their role as the CEO of an organsiation rather than priest / preacher / pastor etc of God's flock.

When attending Hindu ceremonies in Bali, never walk in front of people who are praying, and never sit higher than the priest or the offerings.

Gerald, until you can actually prove that athiest molest more children than priests, you can't make that assumption, and I'm not saying just priests molest children, there are a lot of sick people out there.

It is a world in which beggars are more at home than the wealthy, sinners more than the righteous, children more than their parents, and clowns and fools more than priests and scribes.

There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.

They are not rabbis, who are teachers rather than priests, though a cohen can become a rabbi.