Sentences with phrase «view than the priest»

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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».

Had your mom wanted to become a priest she would have been thrown out of the church just for trying, I'm not sure how that could be viewed as anything other than oppression.

The priests deserve a chance to have their own say on their own terms, rather than to be blended into some homogenous «biblical» view.

Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration by the bishops that, because in their view all cases of sexual abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all cases.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

It was a view held by the priests and church leaders that none other than them could and must convey the Voice of God and God's will.

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.