Sentences with phrase «time as a priest»

Pell testified to the inquiry in a video link from the Vatican in 2016 about his time as a priest and bishop in Australia.

After the success of The Guard, this eagerly awaited new McDonagh film again stars Brendan Gleeson, this time as a priest in a role described as theflipside to The Guard's Sergeant Gerry Boyle.

Not exact matches

New York Times: Women as Priests Reformers within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests.

«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.

If a priest is the headmaster of a school does his duties to the school as an administrator count as time divided from his service to God?

The gospels have different people acting as the high priest during Jesus's trial (There was only ONE high priest at a time back then).

If these morons spent as much time worrying about their child molester priests as they do bashing their views into other people, people would respect them and they might actually do some good.

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.

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

One of the heroes of that time was Chicago's Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, who inspired countless priests as rector of the Mundelein Seminary.

At such times, it's as if I the priest - servant, step aside to let Christ the Lord act (not wholly accurate, because nothing would happen if I wasn't there).

The Chicago Sun Times reports on an exhibit featuring Catholicism in Chicago and quotes Monsignor Hillenbrand, who died in 1978, as telling priests «to get out of the rectories and stop just saving souls and start saving neighbourhoods and people».

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

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.

And He is for all time our active and present reconciliation and healing for sin and its effects in the here and now, on earth, through the hands of His priests as it is in Heaven through his unveiled presence before the Father.

As we near perhaps the most important election in modern times I am very concerned that many Christians have lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest»As we near perhaps the most important election in modern times I am very concerned that many Christians have lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest»as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest».

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

The Psalmist realizes that he is not a bird nor a priest, and so as long as he is on this earth, it is not possible for him to spend as much time in the temple as he would like.

As we near perhaps our most important election in modern times I am very concerned at seeing that so many Christians have apparently lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest»As we near perhaps our most important election in modern times I am very concerned at seeing that so many Christians have apparently lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest»as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest».

At the same time, and as the NRB rightly notes, there are undoubtedly in the priesthood many men afflicted by same - sex attractions who are nonetheless good and faithful priests living lives of chaste celibacy.

He apologized in a statement Sunday, saying, «There have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal.»

As a young priest he spent time with the brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist; the crucible of silence shaped his ministry.

Very frequently, the priests said special prayers or required people to say special words when undergoing these sacred rituals, so that over time, people began to think that there was actual power in these rituals, so that the way they were done did not matter as much as simply doing them.

like i have said several times, if was a true man of god, he would not have covered up the child molesters dressed as priests.

Sam, I agree; now Crossan didn't become a priest but would like to have a following as Martin Luther had although Luther's following soon split from him several times before he died so he got to see what he started; now the trouble for Crossan is... people can not easily forget Luther and how his plan failed....

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»

But for now this eloquent priest has fascinating stories to tell about how he moved from heady days of substance abuse and huge success as part of a chart - topping band («the best of times and the worst of times») to encountering God and becoming a priest.

So, the next time you proudly proclaim that you know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, because your parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from late Bronze Age Palestine as a ten year - old, you might like to consider where your beliefs fit into the bigger picture.

At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.

From the time of the Yahwist, through the Deuteronomists and the complex of the Isaiahs and into the postexilic days of the priests, creativity was conspicuously a more corporate achievement wrought by the judicious, inspired use of existent material as well as by the artistic creation of the new.

In the light of the message entrusted to it the church is called to act as prophet, pastor and priest at the same time for the same people.

The bright and personable priest from Merseyside, who as General Secretary ruled the roost at the Bishops» Conference headquarters at Eccleston Square for eight years from the mid-1980s, was seen by many Catholics at the time as a breath of fresh air [Note: for «many Catholics» read «The Tablet»].

Pope Benedict XVI used Twitter to announce the launch of a new Vatican website, timed to coincide with Wednesday's 60th anniversary of his ordination as a priest.

[6] Now, this Benedicite is on the lips of priests and religious (and laity who pray the Divine Office) as often as several times a week, so it can not be unfamiliar; but is its significance always appreciated?

I admit that referring to any television viewing as «sacred time» is a bit sacrilegious, especially coming from an Episcopal priest.

In «Scandal Time III,» Richard John Neuhaus expresses in several places his concern for a now — elderly priest who is «repentant» and has «rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion» that he «pose [s] a threat to children or anyone else,» because such a priest may now «be thrown out as an abuser,» not «welcomed as a forgiven sinner to the company of forgiven sinners that is the Church.»

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

The bright twelfth waters are interpreted as a time of restoration when Zion will be rebuilt, the Temple offerings reinstituted and the priests reinstated (68:4 - 8).

Buridan was unusual in that he was a diocesan priest at a time when most academics were either Dominicans or Franciscans, and in that he remained in the Arts faculty as a philosopher when most intellectuals of his caliber saw philosophy as a stage on the way to a doctorate in theology.

Following my time as an altar server I was asked by my parish priest to become an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and felt honoured to be asked as I did not feel myself worthy of distributing the body and blood of our Lord at such a young age.

There's a line, again from the Gospel of Luke, that I've revisited many times in my life as a priest because it speaks to the kind of disciples we need to be.

Tilden Edwards, an Episcopal priest who has explored this practice in real life as well as in a book, urges contemporary Christians to be flexible, embracing not a renewed Sabbatarianism as much as a pattern of «Sabbath time.»

During the General Synod debate the Archbishop of Canterbury said his own wellbeing had been affected during his time as a parish priest.

On the other hand, we see little reason to doubt that Samuel did exercise a multiple function in Israel; that he did in fact combine in himself certain qualities of seer, priest, prophet and judge, consistent, to be sure, with his age and time; and that he performed substantially as represented the function of king - maker in early Israel.

«I wish to take this opportunity to admit that there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal,» Cardinal Keith O'Brien said in a statement.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

As time went on, in the Latin Church, the Greek word for elder was replaced by the Latin word for priest, and the Greek word for bishop was replaced with the Latin «Popa».

What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.