Sentences with phrase «women religious who»

Hundreds of these parishes are administered by women religious who act, in effect, as pastors without portfolio.

While McNamara recounts a history of repeated efforts on the part of the Church hierarchy to cloister women both from the world and male clerics, thus preventing any participation in sacramental or authoritative roles, her account also tells the story of countless women religious who endured, thrived, and often achieved renown despite such restrictive efforts.

Not exact matches

Jayda Fransen, who posted the videos, has previously been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment after shouting at a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, and she has recently been charged with inciting religious hatred.

Contrast it with those women (or men) who go out of their way to let everyone know everything: their political stance, their religious beliefs, their sexual identity, their relationship status, their childhood, how they believe the company should be run, and more.

The women who started the movement agreed that when it came to being a victim of rape, there was no distinction between religion or ethnicity: If a man came into a roomful of women with the intention to rape, he would not discriminate among his victims based on religious or ethnic grounds.

These were zealous, energetic, Evangelical Protestants, men and women who were motivated almost entirely by their religious commitments.

Your little «on second thought» dig clearly insinuated something about my own religious commitments; your sarcasm was too weak to warrant recognition; and your choice to decry me as «emotional» is a really tired tactic which mean who don't respect women use against women when they've been cornered.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

We're dealing with one candidate who advocates a religious test for welcoming refugees (and potentially citzenship) and who, at the very least, has a history of mysogony and objectifying women.

The Feb. 20 attacks against the two religious properties forced the apostolic vicar of Benghazi, the rest of his Franciscan community, and the religious men and women who lived and worked in the diocese to be evacuated to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Believe it or not, most men and women who take vows to be religious, do so in good faith and after years of prayer.

It appears it would be understood that the religious leaders were the ones who acted like the servant who got drunk, stole food and beat up men and women.

Francis» enigmatic comments came during a meeting Sunday with CLAR, the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women, who head Catholic communities of priests, sisters and monks.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

Rather, men or women join religious life because they have perceived the call from One who transcends all earthly things to serve him, and through him, his people.

In ancient Greece there was a religious sect of women who would go to parties and orally pleasure the guests... They saw it as a religious duty.

I can futher give other religious teachings that say that we are not judges (ok, Judge Judy is), but we stand as imperfect creatures who do not have the right to judge nor condem our fellow man (and woman) if their beliefs do not align themselves with ours.

In this far - rightist religious regime, it is the women who must keep silent in the state, though it menaces all.

The New York Times: Musicians on Trial Over Crude Anti-Putin Song in Moscow Cathedral At the opening of their trial on charges of inciting religious hatred, three young women who performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior said on Monday that they were prepared to take responsibility for «an ethical mistake.»

There would be apostolic visitations of seminaries and houses of religious formation, led by seminary rectors and religious men and women from living and growing communities, who would recommend needed changes; the trustee agency would then mandate their implementation.

As a study of the religious perspectives of the men (and women) who went on Crusade, this primarily administrative history is perhaps the best book I have read Neither of these volumes, however, reflects the broadening of perspective that has internationalized the idea of the Crusades.

The only religious individual to capture his attention is his second - grade teacher Zelda, a remarkable woman who was the object of his first crush and who opened his mind to literature and language.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

Sandra Fluke, the student who was at the center of a firestorm over contraception rules at her religious university, applauded the decision, saying in a statement, «I am very pleased that under these policies all women, regardless of what school they attend or where they work, will soon have affordable access to contraception.»

Indeed, those who belong to the same religious group can be fierce in their disagreements, even though they have a great deal in common, as has been shown by the recent arguments in the churches about whether women should be ordained.

One thinks not only of the personnel that the Jesuits and other religious institutes devoted to teaching young men but also of the teaching congregations of religious women, such as the Ursulines, who educated young women in virtue and learning.

And of course there are tons of women and a lot of men who quietly just go about being celibate, or just decide against sex for a period of time for a wide range of reasons... health, a loss of a partner, not found someone they want to engage with yet, religious preferences.

Interesting that the Pope has so much tolerance for the males in his priesthood who are gay, but so LITTLE tolerance for the women in religious orders who just want to serve in the way they feel called.

You ignorant person, don't you know the bible and other religious works are written by men from a long time ago who hated women except to procreate with them and have them serve them as their slaves?

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

The good news here is that these two brave women stand in a long tradition of women who have challenged male religious and political authority in the name of freedom.

Islam found its way into the African continent through three channels: through the merchants who came from Egypt, the Maghrib, and Zanzibar in the east; through followers of Sufi orders and graduates of the Islamic schools of Fez, Zaitouna, and Cairo; and through the intermarriage of Muslim merchants and religious leaders with African women.

Some shallow - minded individual thought they he or she was being smart and showed their true disdain for women who are religious and therefore deserve everything they get.

Women who obtain abortion represent every religious affiliation.

Not to say that it couldn't be seen as damning of women who are religious — obviously from your reaction it could be.

Why do Western liberal academics and EU technocrats object so stridently to the mild illiberalism of the Fidesz parliamentary party in Hungary, while saying little or nothing about Saudi Arabia and other monarchical or authoritarian nations, nominal allies of the West, who routinely control, punish, and dominate women, gays, and religious dissenters?

Whatever legal and public policy solutions are reached in the coming years, Christians need to find a social, political and religious way to secure the well - being of women and children, involve fathers in the lives of their children, and support gays and lesbians who want to establish committed relationships and receive the benefits and blessings that go with this commitment.

To elaborate a feminist theological analysis with women who brought to this discourse quite different religious experiences and institutional analyses proved crucial for articulating the theological paradigm shift in which we were engaged.

The women who founded religious congregations were considered radical in their day.

The important point to win now is that it is reasonable for everyone — religious or not — to think marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and that anyone who thinks that and acts that way shouldn't face government penalties and discrimination.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

Just like we don't hang around with women who are caught in the act of adultery, we don't hang around with Samaritans, we don't hang around with powerless children, we don't hang around with women who have a bad reputation, we don't hang around with beggars or the poor or the oppressed or the criminal or the possessed or the socially marginalized or the ones who aren't allowed to come to temple with the good religious people, good gracious!

Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.

The major characters in the history he recounts are «liberators» — men and women of the left — and «zealots» who are religious and conservative.

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

We could also look at the religious subjugation of women in Saudi, at the case of the Indian woman who died in Ireland because a Catholic hospital refused to abort her non-viable fetus, at the Magdalene Laundries, at women being arrested at Jerusalem's wailing Wall — religion has been a driving force in pinning women to inferior or powerless positions for millennia.

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

In Jesus» teaching, the last who shall be first are people who, by virtue of life circumstance, have very little social or spiritual status according to traditional religious practice — women, children, and eunuchs.

The congressional bans on abortion funding impose a particular religious or moral viewpoint on those women who rely on government - funded health care.