Sentences with phrase «which celibacy»

Presbyterorum ordinis lists the many ways in which celibacy is «in harmony with» and «so appropriate to» the priesthood.

We would expect to see greater levels of abuse amongst groups in which celibacy is a normal way of life (such as Catholic priests), and by extension lower levels of abuse in groups in which celibacy is unusual.

Not exact matches

The distinctness of the sacerdotal role gets reinforced by the discipline of celibacy, which is intuitively (and rightly) interpreted as a rejection of the world's rules for human flourishing.

For the young priest and later pope, even celibacy is understood in the light of matrimony, the sacrament by which the Creator revealed to humankind the communio of His own nature.

In a culture like our own, which exalts sex and disparages celibacy, it is little surprise that many fail when they attempt celibacy without much support from the church, without clear models, and without practical advice in facing the challenges they face.

Far more inspiring during seminary years was listening to Edward Holloway who linked priestly celibacy directly to Jesus Christ and to priestly loving, making it emerge clearly that celibacy is not something a priest grits his teeth and does, but is more a continual state of being, in relationship to Christ, which has its own specific way of giving and receiving love.

Holloway prefers «vowed chastity» to «celibacy» which he points out is the natural vocation of all the unmarried (TPL p. 5).

He was to put aside things which were not in any way bad in themselves, but indeed good in themselves, so as to be completely dedicated to God in prayer and pastoral ministry (The Case for Clerical Celibacy, p. 99).

I will respond simply to two of his points which touch the central point of the original article: first, whether or not vowed chastity (or «celibacy») can enable a fuller living - out of the loving of Christ the priest and second, whether the Council Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis intended more than simply defending celibacy in the Latin rite as a «useful discipline».

Eamonn Duffy was on hand to suggest that this Pope had an «iron will» which he used in this relationship to avoid breaking his promise of celibacy.

It can constitute a ground for the notion that celibacy must form part of the ideal Christian life: the «evangelical life» which the Church of the fourth and later centuries identified with monasticism.

Next week, we will examine Part 1 of Washed and Waiting, in which Wesley explains why his convictions related to Scripture and the example of Christ have led him to pursue celibacy within the Christian community.

Celibacy is not simply the absence of sex but a spiritual discipline, by which we learn to place God, sex, and Christian community in the right perspective and understand the value of controlling sexual desires.

Jesus commends those who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19: 12).20 Christian celibacy is dedication to a pattern of life in which one fruitful and natural kind of experience is renounced for the sake of service to God and neighbour.

His essay on celibacy was written in 1828 in response to a petition called the Denkschrift, which was produced in Baden, Germany, and called for an end to priestly celibacy.

Thus in the modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

A more substantive rebuttal is Scanzoni and Mollenkott's assertion following Thielicke that only with the gift of celibacy freely chosen can abstinence be a creative alternative for fulfilling one's God - intended humanity (here is the exception clause under which Jesus» and Paul's humanity can be viewed).

And I agree that celibacy is most definitely not inherrently harmful when freely choosen, though I may disagree that most celibate gay christians are in fact «freely choosing» that path as opposed to feeling pressured into it and thus struggling with it in a less than beneficial fasion (which is not to say that there isn't a level of struggle inherent in the Christian life which can in fact be benificial).

Personally, I feel I have no buisness to say anything to anyone whose position is «I feel God leading me to celibacy» (which is something straight people do too).

However, if they truly want to bridge the gap, I would suggest that they remain neutral (which, considering their view of scripture, would mean remain silent) on the issue of celibacy vs. gay marriage.

There would be no intention of ever «splipping up» which would mean running from temptation to such an extent that we would likely not be able to form a sufficiently intimate plutonic relationship that would compensate for the celibacy.

'' «Our pastoral practice of demanding life - long «celibacy,» by which we meant that for the rest of your life you would not engage your sexual orientation in any way, was causing obvious harm and has not led to human flourishing,» the letter said.

He envisions an end to priestly celibacy and the beginning of lay - led Christian communities in which, under certain circumstances, lay leaders can celebrate the Mass. (Rahner was always one to encase his revisionism within elaborate qualifications.)

One of the common criticisms of a traditionally Christian sexual ethic is that it forces a lot of gay people into involuntary celibacy, which some find very lonely, painful, frustrating.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

Wesley identifies six streams of this narrative that give him a context in which he can see how his commitment to celibacy makes sense.

Wesley runs through several options, including same - sex relationships (which he believes are a violation of God's design), mixed orientation marriages (which he believes may work in some cases, but probably not his own), and celibacy.

Celibacy, he suggested, was a form of affective anorexia which creates an equally disordered bulimic type reaction that has directly contributed to cases of child abuse.

What I was trying to argue in my article was this: the celibacy to which some are called by special vocation and the chastity to which all are called by baptism are not two distinct things.

They have done this by retaining the very clear connection between celibacy and monastic life which is simply the life of all the baptized lived to its radical conclusion.

Today we look at what is perhaps the most controversial and intriguing chapter in the book — Chapter 3, in which Matthew argues that Scripture does not support mandatory celibacy for gay and lesbian Christians.

... Next week, we'll look at just a single chapter from God and the Gay Christian, which addresses celibacy.

The fact that marriage is an «honorable estate, instituted of God» is of itself a sufficient answer to the Roman Catholic view that celibacy is a higher state to which priests, monks, and nuns are called.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

With the phrase «fidelity in marriage and celibacy in singleness» we have only constructed an artificial stage on which we now comfortably assume that we can honestly (faithfully) play out life's dramas.

About a dozen Italian women have posted an open letter to the pope on the internet in which they claim to have had intimate relationships with priests and urge the church to abolish celibacy for Catholic clergy.

Dr. Adam Clarke, speaking of this remarkable proceeding says: — «God caused the animals to pass before Adam to show him that no creature yet formed could make him a suitable companion; that Adam was convinced that none of these animals could be a suitable companion for him, and that therefore he must continue in a state that was not good (celibacy) unless he became a further debtor to the bounty of his maker, for among all the animals which he had formed, there was not a helpmeet for Adam.»

In a personal dissent, which no other member of the court joined, the Russian judge, Dmitry Dedov, argued that mandatory priestly celibacy was itself a human rights violation the court should not tolerate.

It is only with an understanding of vocation and the question of sexual vocation other than marriage and celibacy that a responsible Christian sexual ethic can be elaborated which is neither reactionary nor soft - headed, neither simply orthodox nor simply enlightened, but a genuine application of Christian moral insight to the contemporary setting.

In fact such a view misunderstands the character of celibacy as vocation, which is never to be confused with mere abstinence nor founded upon some «natural» inclination.

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.

Many Chinese resented Buddhism as a foreign religion and detested some of its social practice such as self - mutilation and cremation as well as celibacy of the monks which were felt to threaten the family continuity and violate ancestral traditions.

[28] Celibacy is far from a rejection of the deep meaning of sexuality, but a living of human sexuality which is even fuller, more profound and complimentary to the extent that it explains the married vocation.

However, several societies of clergy bound by rules which include vows of celibacy (usually not formally lifelong, but taken for a period with the expectation of renewal), have been founded, such as the Oblates of Mount Calvary in America, associated with the Order of the Holy Cross, and the recently organized Company of Mission Priests in England.21

Following a period of promiscuity in which he «chased everything in sight,» the Mayor says, he took a vow of celibacy in 1985.

Asexuality (or nonsexuality) is not the same as celibacy, which is the willful decision to not act on sexual feelings.

Asexuality or nonsexuality is not the same as celibacy, which is the willful decision to not act on sexual feelings.

As with Berg's film and HBO's television documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012), which explore similar cases in Northern California and Wisconsin, Spotlight raises questions about Church - run «treatment centres» and the role of wider celibacy issues on its attitude to self - preservation.

While celibacy is clearly not advocated, neither is sleeping around or even dating, both of which are depicted as depressing and immature.

Medusa broke her vow of celibacy and married the god Poseidon, for which, as punishment, the goddess Athena turned her golden locks into a morass of snakes.