Sentences with phrase «well as priests»

Do not Lansch and Hoatson realize that the «zero tolerance policy» includes bishops who abuse children as well as priests who have abused?

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.

Not exact matches

Yet I STILL would treat people better then this priest did (and as discussed below, I actually blame him mor ethan the church).

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

But, as Cardinal Dulles argued, to bar a priest from publicly celebrating the Mass and administering the sacraments is to rob him of his sacred calling, his lifelong identity, his good reputation, and his sole means of support — effectively a death penalty.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

As the story crystallizes around Walt's determination to change by protecting his next - door neighbors» kids from a street gang of their Asian peers, the priest keeps popping up, gradually winning Walt's respect and forcing him to consider the moral implications of his urge to be a vigilante and perhaps go too far for his own legal and moral good.

Having said that I'd suggest that the fact that Jesus, THE priest, is male bears out, in part (but not all pervadingly), a qualified conclusion that «God thinks that we can relate to him best as we relate to a male» in that Jesus is the male that we relate to God through.

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.

And Walt's response is an affecting parallel to the audience's own initially derisive perception of the priest, taking us along on his faith journey as well.

It occurred to me that the «We relate best to God as we relate to a male» debate is perhaps moot as one who is in the position of mediating the relationship is surely a priest... a position we apparently have no need for since the incarnation.

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.

A priest has asked thieves who stole a ciborium as well as a tabernacle, chalices and other sacred items from a church «to repent and to return what they have taken.

I heard a rumor, that the Vatican thought a better punishment for Aziz, would be to dress him as an altar boy and leave him with a group of priests...

Sweeping generalization as I can remember some of the best people I've ever known were priests and a nun or two were witches.

This includes accepting gays as our priests and bishops as well as women.

There should be a gay lobby in the Vatican to represent the many Catholics who are gay, as well as the gay priests, who hold ranks up to Cardinal.

They even brought defrocked priests and nuns into their fold, as well as disgruntled Christians who bemoaned the declining morals of their old churches.

Luke's mother wouldn't be a priest like his father wouldn't typically be a priest cause to be a priest is to be not only a male but to be concecrated as well.

When I see priests in NYC driving BMW's there is a good chance they are.not helping the poor quote as well as they could.

I told him that I would remember that, and that it was good to see him again in his usual mode as a priest.

Her Funeral Mass was attended by eight priests from the Faith Movement as well as her children, all her UK grandchildren and two of her great - grandchildren.

In this relationship of trust, the priest may speak the words and the love of Christ, the Good Shepherd, and leave the person in question free to respond to Christ as they will.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

Malachi is saying that the priests are not just robbing from God, but are robbing from the whole nation as well.

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

My experience as a priest — people do take these things very seriously which is precisely why the Pope is writing to pastors and Catholics to help them understand how better to discern.

The protesters say they are upset, but not surprised, that three priests, Edward Avery, Charles Engelhardt and James Brennan, as well as a teacher, Bernard Shero, were charged with sexually assaulting and raping two young boys over a period of several years.

Why don't they lock up the priests who did these ungodly things to children, and hold the diocese responsible as well for turning their face, like the Sandusky mess!!

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

As Lindsay puts it, let's not be the priests walking by, let's be the Good Samaritan who puts out a hand to our neighbour, bruised, bloodied and dying by the side of the road.

Like location: the starting point isn't «where would we like to live», but rather criteria such as access to a good priest and, of course, enough space to maintain family harmony.

It was also a thanksgiving sacrifice as well as a meal for the priests who offered it.

Over the years, the priests of religion have done a good job of selling «belief» as «faith».

Such matters might best be handled by someone who can speak from personal experience of a chaste homosexual life e.g. as one might hope, a priest.

Yet mindful of Thomas à Kempis's words that it is better to be a devoted servant of God than somebody who can discourse wisely, I was delighted to learn the revealing information that the former parish priest of four US parishes has as heroes inspiring men and women of God: Simone Weil, Edith Stein (St Teresa of the Cross), Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and St Margaret Mary Alacoque.

The majority of Catholic priests are good holy men who are suffering and paying the price because of a few bad, just as the majority of coaches and teachers are good people.

I thought the same thing, and upon reading the whole thing, i learned that this was a book about the OT law, and also priests, as well as the account of the festival calenders and the main heritage story of prophetic foreshadowing of the New Covenant, a better covenant.

The valuable context, however, seems to have been almost entirely overlooked during the 2002 sexual - abuse crisis, in which priests were depicted as posing a special threat to the public good.

Evidently intellectuals are no better men only because they are educated; this shows itself especially in the case of theologians, no matter whether they are priests or laymen, who have chosen theology and spirituality as their profession or even as their intellectual hobby.

I now understand better the conservative character and structure of the church, having been working within it (or at its edges) as a priest for about 16 years.

This is another consideration which might help to overcome the shortage of priests; for there might well be priests who would be suitable for such a Church of faith and have authority, even though they would be received into the clergy as mature men after a quite differently conceived training.

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.

The upshot, as best we can make out, is that a large number of priests who seek help in this connection have, in the course of their lives.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

They live in a world organized in a radically different way, and the suggestion, for instance, that women are biologically incapable of being priests strikes them as quaint at best, ludicrous at worst.

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.

Recently, three outstanding crime novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as well as in spirit, priests.

Nuns have been abusing for years, as well as, priests.