Sentences with phrase «women as priests»

The Philadelphia Enquirer: A church celebrates with women as priests Several months ago, Kathy Schuck's 15 - year - old daughter posed a question that seemed innocuous but that became a call to action.

Dalit cult had both men and women as priests and priestess to mediate with the Deity and to officiate at the sacrifices.

Until his retirement, you've been under the Bishop of London, who doesn't ordain women as priests.

Sorry, but neither Jesus nor the apostles said a word about women as priests (nor did Jesus ordain anyone as a priest * since he was not consciously founding a new religion *).

While the pope appeared to open one door Monday, he dismissed the possibility of ordaining women as priests.

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

Not exact matches

Almost two years after racy photos exposed his relationship with a woman and prompted the end of his tenure as a Roman Catholic priest and media star, Albert Cutie on Monday said celibacy is not necessary or particularly healthy for those aiming to heed God's call.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Bevilacqua?)

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

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.

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

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

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce and alimony payments for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, B16?)

25 The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar; 26 and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

Appeal to authority on questions such as birth control, divorce and women priests «did not satisfy an educated people who wanted to be convinced with arguments».

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

Catholics insistence that women are just not as fitting as men to be priests because Jesus had a penis.

Coll's extensive research leads her to conclude that while women can not be ordained priests, as part of this authentic development, the Church could «ordain» women as deacons.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

The Bible NEVER mentions abortion, but apparently gives instructions on how to cause one: (Numbers 5:26 - 27) «The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.

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.

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.

You could choose a female priest... no but wait, no allowed as although women have evolved in our modern world, they have not being allowed to do so in your house of god.

Frankly, the argument over women versus men serving as priests is trite, silly and nothing to do with a belief in God.

Why does Rome appoint as bishops only those who have never publicly questioned Humanae vitae, the celibacy of priests and the ordination of women?

Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

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.

How these positions are more absolutist and doctrinaire than his own commitment to the approval of homosexuality, women priests, and married priests is, as per usual, not made clear.

There actually were women in priest positions centuries ago, even as high as bishop.

The point is that, as heterosexual men are attracted to young women, homosexual men are attracted to young men, and homosexual priests have more opportunities to act on their attractions.

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

Moreover, I argued on theological grounds that women should demand ordination as bishops rather than just as deacons and priests.

There's always a feeling of admiration when I meet women who were among the first to be ordained as priests in the Church of England.

1992 Women training in Anglican theological colleges are permitted to become priests as well as deacons.

I don't believe the outsider feeling came so much from being a woman in an overwhelmingly male environment as it did from being a layperson surrounded by future priests.

Going to be forced to worship some glorified priest - fantasy from the days of superstltious idiots who thought women were worthless except as birth - machines to produce male heirs?

25 Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, shall wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar; 26 and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedop - hiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, imams, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for mur - der («Kings David and Henry VIII).

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized / «stoned» as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, archbishop Brady) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

I think a lot of people expected him to be more liberal than he has been, but he sees his role as keeping the church together when it divides on controversial issues like women priests and gay clergy.

@Pontifex #AskPontifex Your Holiness, can you please tell us why women aren't allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests?

Stimpson writes as a modern woman who sees things are they really are: hence, on the subject of clothing she makes the point that a priest in a clerical collar is saying «Hey, world, I'm a priest», and a policeman in uniform is saying «Hey, world, I'm a cop».

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedo - philiacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Cardinal Bevilacqua?

If you really want to «get it,» i.e., as in «understand,» I commend you to Peter Kreeft's discussion given many years ago — just Google Peter Kreeft and «women priests» and you can listen to the audio.

Too much about Catholicism I could no longer tolerate — pedophile priests, and a refusal by the hierarchy to recognize women as anything but servants top my list.

So the washing clean of original sin in Baptism is irrelevant and SacredOrders need not exclude women since the priest no longer acts in the person of Christ as an atoning sacrifice (p147).

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Since 1960 the Catholic population has grown from 40 to 60 million, but the number of priests and women religious has declined to 45,000 and 90,000 respectively as a result of resignations, retirements and thinning ranks of new recruits.

Whether or not the trend is irreversible, as Schoenherr argues, it has begun to transform the relationship between priests, women religious, the new pastoral administrators, permanent deacons and lay ministers.