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"priesthood" Definitions
  1. the priesthood [singular] the job or position of being a priest
  2. all the priests of a particular religion or country

377 Sentences With "priesthood"

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One man will be ordained into the priesthood in June.
He trained for the priesthood before discovering girls and politics.
VICE: Do you see a generational gap within the priesthood?
DeShan left the priesthood four years later, according to NJ.com.
The picture of Poland's priesthood only goes downhill from there.
How have so many pedophiles been allowed into the priesthood?
Gerety, born in Shelton, Connecticut, was ordained to priesthood in 1939.
They studied the training methods of the Austrians, Alpine skiing's priesthood.
Some also theorize that the all-male priesthood is a factor.
"There's something countercultural about going into the priesthood," Mr. Hamaty said.
Earlier this year, the church finally expelled him from the priesthood.
Without the introduction of women into the priesthood, abuses will continue.
Troubled by the celibacy requirement, he left the priesthood in 1975.
Laicization is a process that removes a priest from the priesthood.
He studied for the priesthood in Beirut and was ordained in 2010.
If you get into the priesthood at the age of 236, point.
A former seminarian, Diaz turned down the priesthood to join the Army.
Do you see the perception of the church or the priesthood changing?
Two, the church must abandon the mandate of celibacy for the priesthood.
We asked him [the archbishop] to remove the priest from the priesthood.
Thomas is transgender, which rules him out of consideration for the priesthood.
It was not long before he entertained doubts about entering the priesthood.
Mr. Feit left the priesthood in the 1970s, married and had three children.
The priesthood was a path to personal advancement which attracted many dubious types.
Francis accepted seven of the resignations and dismissed two others from the priesthood.
He was ordained to the priesthood almost a decade later, in December 1969.
That's one of the reasons I entered seminary and thought about the priesthood.
In 1995 Father Palladino was readmitted to the priesthood, serving in Oregon parishes.
Within the Roman Catholic Church, only men are allowed access to the priesthood.
Mr. Schippers briefly studied for the priesthood before deciding to become a lawyer.
If there ever was a time to expand the priesthood, it is now.
Critics say it would "undermine the distinctive character of the priesthood," per WSJ.
Some argued that priestly celibacy was dissuading young men from joining the priesthood.
After only four years, he walked away from the priesthood, forlorn and distressed.
He pursued his path to the priesthood at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.
"He left the priesthood in 1975 and was laicized in 1977," he continued.
The KGB infiltrated the priesthood, informing on clergy and promoting Soviet interests abroad.
Making it a condition for priesthood, even for those not called to it, results in a priesthood that does not represent the church at large and results in the many evils we have seen brought to light in recent years.
That's when I decided not to consecrate myself to the priesthood but to cooking.
Feit later left the priesthood and moved to Arizona, where he started a family.
It is sinful for a priesthood holder to derive pleasure from the sex act.
DeShan left the priesthood around 1994 and became a Cinnaminson school teacher in 1996.
Later the same year, it reaffirmed its policy excluding women from entering the priesthood.
St. Paul "recommends" celibacy, but never said it should be required for the priesthood.
His father suggested he start with law; he could always join the priesthood later.
And Jews were always religiously innovative, contesting the centralized authority of priesthood and orthodoxy.
After the film's release, he filed a request to be removed from the priesthood.
It was the first time an American cardinal has been removed from the priesthood.
Still, Thomas said he does not think he will enter the priesthood anytime soon.
In the Bible, and in subsequent centuries, it was not a condition for priesthood.
"Finally I can send my thoughts on the priesthood," read a letter dated Oct.
The next year, the church defrocked Father Geoghan and removed him from the priesthood.
But the priesthood, with its hard calling of celibacy, is in freefall in many places.
In 2014, he said the "door is always open" to discussing celibacy in the priesthood.
Take, for example, the Phineas Priesthood, a Christian Identity doctrine followed by lone-wolf terrorists.
Deacons, like priests, are ordained ministers, and, as in the priesthood, they must be men.
It is a problem involving a subculture of secrecy surrounding gay men in the priesthood.
The family is Brahmin, members of Hinduism's highest caste, which was long associated with priesthood.
Four of the about 40 men trained by Karadima for the priesthood later became bishops.
Mr. Geoghan preyed on and raped children like these for the duration of his priesthood.
More accusations subsequently surfaced that he had sexually abused minors beginning early in his priesthood.
The Roman Catholic priesthood, though, with its mandatory celibacy, discourages any close contact with women.
It is also the first time an American cardinal has been removed from the priesthood.
Wellems belonged to the Claretians Roman Catholic order and resigned from the priesthood early last year.
The Catholic Church retains the priesthood for men, arguing that Christ and his apostles were male.
As illustrated in wall reliefs and artifacts, the regalia of the Egyptian priesthood was highly specific.
Conservatives are also opposed to women deacons, saying the deaconate is linked with the male priesthood.
Opponents said it was a radical departure from church tradition and an abasement of the priesthood.
He is considered an "apostate," someone who turned his back on his prophet and the priesthood.
Feit, now 83, left the priesthood in 1972 and later married and had children and grandchildren.
His mentors in the priesthood had also urged him to be wary of friendly American faces.
Adamson, who faced accusations of years of abuse and was removed from the priesthood, died recently.
He will now face a canonical trial, which could lead to his removal from the priesthood.
Michele studied for the priesthood at a seminary for seven years before going to New York.
Eventually, the priesthood was even opened up to non-castrated citizen men, changing its nature entirely.
Church doctrine does not allow women to be ordained into the priesthood or hold top leadership positions.
He says they are looking at new ways to reach men who may be thinking about priesthood.
The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, saying Christ chose only men as his 12 apostles.
In 2013, he declared that "the door is closed" on discussion of ordaining women into the priesthood.
Throughout my priesthood, I was always criticized for being too attentive to what the pope was saying.
It asks these men to consider: For them, is the priesthood a closet, a refuge or both?
The letter comes days after Pope Francis defrocked ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, expelling him from the priesthood.
His parents wondered if he was considering the priesthood, but he said he was seeking something else.
Ciolek, who became a lawyer in New Jersey after leaving the priesthood, shared the letter with CNN.
McCarrick was expelled from the priesthood after being found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults.
Celibacy and the exclusion of women from the priesthood are the true root causes of this sickness.
She is also a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Brennan resolved to go to heaven, and the priesthood seemed like a sure way of getting there.
But as a woman I find the reasoning behind the arguments for celibacy in the priesthood specious.
For those political activities, Pope John Paul II sanctioned Cardenal in 1984, expelling him from the priesthood.
Normally, the maximum penalty for sexual abuse of a minor is laicization, or removal from the priesthood.
Pope Francis approved Poulson's "dispensation from all the obligations attached to holy orders (priesthood)," the Diocese says.
Of the 33, six have died, eight have left the priesthood, and one had left the order.
Seventy-four seminarians studying for the priesthood also abused minors and 81% of them were not ordained.
It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men.
Mr. Gallegos ditched the priesthood and adopted the stage name "Romantico" to pursue a life in rap.
The world of the priesthood as I have observed it is, curiously, a male, even a macho one.
The document called for a greater role for women in the Church, which bars them from the priesthood.
For the crime of involvement with women priesthood, people employed by the Catholic Church often lose their jobs.
Still, his life now is less about high priesthood than it is staying calm while stuck in traffic.
Seriously, the guy's being so hounded I think he'll either enter the priesthood or poison the entire household.
The files make it clear that the Phineas Priesthood has been on the FBI's radar for two decades.
Though the top priesthood leaders did not mention homosexuality, Facebook users quickly interpreted their messages through this lens.
He was an accomplished pianist who once considered a career as a musician before ultimately joining the priesthood.
VICE: Do you think people coming into religious orders and the priesthood are different than their older counterparts?
Carlo Alberto Capella, would now face a canonical trial, which could lead to his removal from the priesthood.
Leaving the priesthood isn't socially acceptable, so it can be hard for an ex-priest to build relationships.
These rules are intricately bound up with the misogyny behind the historical denial of the priesthood to women.
Until the church allows women and married men into the priesthood, it's just not going to work. Period.
The pope also shows a lack of mercy for women who are called to the priesthood, Brown said.
When I made the announcement to join the priesthood, my family and I did not speak for six years.
The AP reported last year that Wellems has remained executive director even after leaving the priesthood over the abuse.
"I was being courted by priests because families used to offer their oldest boy to the priesthood," said Auchettl.
Indeed, these dissident movements had already challenged the papacy and the priesthood, transubstantiation, indulgences, relics, icons, and clerical celibacy.
From 5003 to 1982, he also led a program in which Episcopal priests, some married, joined the Catholic priesthood.
He was defamed, slandered ... even by his own brothers in the priesthood and the episcopate, Francis said in 2015.
For many years, Mr. Ciolek, who became a lawyer after leaving the priesthood, told no one about his experiences.
Around the same time, they also each began the process of discerning ordination to priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
He began studying for the priesthood at San Alberto Magno Seminary in Matanzas and completed his studies in Quebec.
Francis was referring to a 1994 document by Pope John Paul that closed the door on a female priesthood.
Church leaders know full well that the priesthood would be decimated if closeted gay men were exposed and expelled.
"I feel a few bad apples can't spoil the whole crop," she said, referring to abusers in the priesthood.
Its devotees, too, rail against a discredited priesthood and its vices—in this case, central bankers and quantitative easing (QE).
There are other, less benign ones, which a man contemplating the priesthood may not even himself consciously recognize at ordination.
The punishment made him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to be expelled from the priesthood over the sex abuse crisis.
"UNSUB" is an abbreviation for "unknown subject" and refers to so-called Colorado and Wyoming cells of the Phineas Priesthood.
"It is better that they leave the priesthood or the consecrated life rather than live a double life," he said.
Childhood: The son of a gas station manager, Mr. Pence was an altar boy and once considered entering the priesthood.
Depending on how it's defined, clericalism is often taken to mean an excessive deference to the church's all-male priesthood.
But he became the first in his family to go past high school, attending seminary before deciding against the priesthood.
At one point, he studied for the priesthood, but lost interest amid a political awakening that steered him decidedly leftward.
I grew up in a very Roman Catholic atmosphere in western Kansas and had always been drawn to the priesthood.
We became friends, and by the time I left the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1989 we were in a relationship.
And, with luck, the priesthood has not yet become so sprawling that it has lost a sense of its values.
" He said the guidelines requested that the father leave the priesthood, but another official said that was "impossible to impose.
He set his sights on the priesthood while serving as an altar boy there in St. Francis de Sales parish.
Father Perdue said encouraging more men to enter the priesthood was part of his motivation for reviving the Flying Fathers.
It is believed to be the first time a cardinal has ever been expelled from the priesthood for such offenses.
The church's teaching that gay sex is sinful has clearly coexisted with and encouraged powerful gay subcultures in the priesthood.
Silicon Valley's emphasis on work-life balance may be evolving, but its priesthood still values a very particular kind of grit.
The isolation experienced by elderly clerics, especially in wealthy, liberal societies, is one symptom of a crisis in the Catholic priesthood.
Some said the prospect of ordaining married men to the priesthood in the area would present challenges for the region's women.
Vocations to the priesthood have fallen to a trickle, and the social power wielded by religious orders is a fading memory.
And while the Catholic priesthood remains open solely to men, two major figures in the worship of Santa Muerte are women.
Opponents say ordaining women to the deaconate would signal the start of a slippery slope toward ordaining women to the priesthood.
I see some great blessings in that, because they come with so much experience and wisdom from many years of priesthood.
On a visit home, he told his father that he was thinking of either joining the priesthood or attending law school.
By now, 41 ACE alumni have gone "into formation," as Catholic lexicon puts it, for the priesthood or a religious order.
Those who did not write such a letter would face suspension from the priesthood, the pope told them at the time.
After graduating from LaSalle Academy in Providence and studying for the priesthood in Massachusetts, he was ordained a priest in 1959.
FOR the European Union's high priesthood in Brussels, the right of people to live and work anywhere in Europe is sacred.
Discussions by this "priesthood" conflate national security and manliness with sexualized jargon about vertical erector launchers and thrust-to-weight ratios.
Roman Catholic laity have been betrayed by the church's leadership and their cover-up of massive mortal sinning by the priesthood.
Mr. Pintauro's plays addressed a broad range of topical subjects, including the AIDS crisis, pederasty in the priesthood and suburban sprawl.
In addition, a papal commission should be formed immediately to study priestly celibacy and women's ordination to the diaconate and priesthood.
But although as a young acolyte he rejected a suggestion from his parish priest to enter the priesthood, the question lingered.
Diminishing ordinations to the priesthood, young Catholics leaving the church in large numbers and clerical sexual abuse will, I fear, continue.
Last year, Francis called homosexuality "fashionable" and recommended that men with "this deep-seated tendency" not be accepted into the priesthood.
He was recalled, kept in detention in the Vatican and dismissed from the priesthood, but died in 2015 before his trial.
Calvinism translated Martin Luther's famous slogan for the Reformation, "a priesthood of all believers" into a prescription for round-the-clock productivity.
But this appears to be the first time that a cardinal has been expelled from the priesthood specifically because of sexual abuse.
The one that lights them up the most, however, is their love of the priesthood, something every priest I know feels deeply.
Pope Francis ordered the 87-year-old cardinal&aposs removal pending further action that could end in his expulsion from the priesthood.
Berzosa, who took her vows in 1964, said she supports a female priesthood, a position not very common among nuns her age.
It expelled former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults.
The most compelling was Sebeok's plan for a nuclear priesthood, which would pass on information to future generations through myths and rituals.
But in 1976, the Episcopal Church conference voted that "no one shall be denied access" to the priesthood on account of sex.
He was ordained in 21974 by Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman of New York and remained in the priesthood until the late 21976s.
This logic is flawed, as Jesus also chose Jews, and you don't see a lot of them being invited into the priesthood.
Both parents died early, and he was coerced by his guardian into a monastery and later into taking the vows of priesthood.
The curtain rose, Mr. Richie heard the sound of young women screaming in delight, and there went his interest in the priesthood.
Teachings holding homosexuality to be immoral, bans on sexual intercourse outside male-female marriages, and an all-male priesthood would remain unaltered.
Leaving the priesthood in 1970, he married Marianne Benkert, a former nun who was doing her residency in psychiatry at the institute.
Desmond Cahill, the report's lead author, said its findings pointed to an urgent need to rethink the priesthood in the 21st century.
According to prosecutors, just one year into his priesthood he began abusing a student at St. James Catholic School in Savannah, Georgia.
Some say the recent scandals are cause for the church to rethink its stance on the all-male and mostly unmarried priesthood.
" Another asks about "any sins or misdeeds in your life that should have been resolved with priesthood authorities but have not been.
What becomes clear is that the application of celibacy in the priesthood did not derive in a vacuum, nor from a single moment.
Walesa, 75, suggested the Church could carry out psychological tests of men wishing to enter priesthood in a bid to guard against abusers.
The document said that some bishops in the synod thought the issue of a married priesthood should be discussed on a universal basis.
A sticking point has been that a candidate to the priesthood must have male genitalia (or at least have been born with them).
One, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, has said it is a waste of time and energy to consider any changes to the celibate male priesthood.
Following the shooting, we filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI for everything the bureau had on the Phineas Priesthood.
This is not a time for culture wars in the church but for a priesthood that serves the mission of the church today.
Although celibacy is not intrinsic to priesthood, the celibate man is an authentic sign of transcendence, pointing to something beyond the material world.
Op-Ed Contributor MANILA — Flaviano Villanueva, 47, entered the priesthood in his 30s after leading a fast life fueled by drugs and alcohol.
Then allegations surfaced that he had sexually abused minors himself beginning early in his priesthood and continuing until he became archbishop of Melbourne.
But, unlike those clergy, the Mormon priesthood is occupied by part-time lay people with little formal training in pastoral work or counseling.
He was raised in Lebanon, Pa. An Eagle Scout who mingled with boys of other faiths, William decided on the priesthood early on.
After leaving the priesthood in 21990, he explored religious themes in novels like "Tight White Collar" (123), the story of a disillusioned priest.
But the issue of a married priesthood for the Amazon region was by far the most contentious item in the 120-paragraph final document.
I added events which only fire when a character restores the Jewish High Priesthood: The Sanhedrin restores the punishment of known murderers and adulterers.
It expelled former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the Roman Catholic priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults.
He also became a deacon of the Church of England and was on the path towards priesthood before he decided it wasn't for him.
" Gisotti said the document "requests" that the father leave priesthood to "assume his responsibilities as a parent by devoting himself exclusively to the child.
Evangelicals obey no canon law; each denomination is responsible for itself, an outgrowth of the Protestant belief in the individual priesthood of every believer.
Scicluna said the McCarrick decision "will raise a number of questions" about the screening process for candidates for the priesthood and to become bishops.
Then allegations surfaced that he had himself been involved in abuse beginning early in his priesthood and continuing until he became archbishop of Melbourne.
He has refused to consider any possibility of women's ordination to the priesthood, consigning us to second-class status, thus ensuring the status quo.
" While he personally considered celibacy a "great gift" for the priesthood, he added, that "does not mean it should be perhaps the only way.
Mr. Williams himself then left the priesthood in disgrace when it emerged that he had broken his vows of celibacy and fathered a son.
Bishops are drawn from the church's lay priesthood, are all men, and serve for several years while maintaining jobs, families, and any other personal commitments.
Brexit is also a grave blow for the EU. The high-priesthood in Brussels has lost touch with ordinary citizens—and not just in Britain.
In March, Malone released a list of 42 priests in the Buffalo diocese who had left the priesthood after facing accusations of sexually abusing minors.
While he acknowledged the church's policy barring women from the priesthood, Archbishop Gerety urged that more women be named to leadership roles in local parishes.
Raymond Lombardy said that, as far as he was aware, his father made his living through chess after leaving the priesthood — mostly through giving lessons.
Then there are more selfish reasons: These stories, even though they represent a fraction of the priesthood, cast every Catholic priest in the darkest light.
The church has been a meeting place for Black Panthers and was the site of the first-ever ordination of women into the Episcopal priesthood.
Sixth, if a predator's conduct becomes known to the community, don't remove him from the priesthood to ensure that no more children will be victimized.
When Hellinger returned to Europe in 683, at the age of forty-four, he studied psychotherapy in Vienna and eventually left the priesthood and married.
Catch up: The Vatican announced over the weekend that Pope Francis had expelled Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, from the priesthood.
"This includes the work of outside legal counsel, who are interviewing priesthood leaders, family members, law enforcement officials and others with knowledge of these incidents."
It explains why so many gay men entered the priesthood, especially decades ago: They didn't feel safe or comfortable in a society that ostracized them.
" He said the guideline "requests" that the father leave the priesthood to "assume his responsibilities as a parent by devoting himself exclusively to the child.
McCarrick, who resigned as cardinal last year when the accusations first surfaced and were deemed credible by U.S. Church investigators, was dismissed from the priesthood.
On Monday, the BBC reported that he had asked for a leave of absence from the priesthood and isn't living at the house any longer.
But many in the United States knew of his habit of using his authority to coerce adult seminarians studying for the priesthood to sleep with him.
From the mid-1800s until 1978, it did not ordain black men to its priesthood or allow black men or women to participate in important rituals.
It is the first time a grouping of bishops convened by a pope has endorsed such a historic change to the tradition of a celibate priesthood.
She said the Church's ban on a female priesthood had "locked women out of any significant role in the Church's leadership, doctrinal development and authority structure".
The archdiocese has removed 27 living priests from the ministry because of sexual abuse allegations, including some who were forced out of the priesthood, Carlson said.
Per the AP, Pope Francis has expressed an openness to examining the possibility that married men in remote communities might be allowed to join the priesthood.
"Professors used to be a bit of a priesthood," Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist who has written extensively about campus unrest over recent years, told me.
To the extent that the House of Government facilitated a transition, it was the metamorphosis of a sect of ascetics into a priesthood of pampered élites.
It is easy to wonder, in the context of the rest of Murray's life, if she joined the priesthood chiefly because she was told she couldn't.
Priests and ex-priests have said McCarrick abused his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
The priesthood is one of them, because I do feel like, in some ways, being an actor, especially in the theater, is living a monastic life.
By the mid-20133s Mr. Pintauro was growing restless in the priesthood and asked his bishop for permission to seek a job in the secular world.
Herbert D'Argenio, a priest at St. Theresa's in the Bronx who was known for encouraging young men to join the priesthood, and who died in 1996.
Then, in 2017, allegations surfaced that he had himself been involved in abuse beginning early in his priesthood and continuing until he became archbishop of Melbourne.
In reaction, The Women's Ordination Conference (WOC), a group that promotes a female priesthood, said in a statement that "Patriarchy Will Not Have the Last Word".
The former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, was expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults.
He studied for the priesthood at seminaries in New York State and was ordained in 1959, then served as the pastor for several North Carolina parishes.
Les Costello, who won a Stanley Cup with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1948 at age 20 before retiring two years later to enter the priesthood.
Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was expelled from the priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Vatican said in February.
Only in 1978 did leaders of the church open the priesthood to black people, and admit black people to the supremely sacred religious rituals known as ordinances.
Australia's recent prime ministers have included Tony Abbott who once trained for the priesthood, and Kevin Rudd who was of Catholic background but became a keen Anglican.
In 22010, Maciel, then just 22006, established a religious institute, known as the Legion of Christ, made up of young priests and seminarians studying for the priesthood.
As in many countries, the collapse in the prestige of the priesthood and of religious orders has been much more dramatic than the decline of belief itself.
Former Manchester United youth prospect Phil Mulryne, who went on to make more than 150 appearances for Norwich City, began training for the Catholic priesthood in 2009.
Inside McQuilliams's rented van, officers found a copy of the book Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood, written by white supremacist Richard Kelly Hoskins.
Because for every meeting Francis has with an openly gay person and his husband, there's a signed document that bars openly gay men from entering the priesthood.
No one can be overly surprised a priest may have had relationships before entering the priesthood and Lenny's letters — what we hear of them — sound very sweet.
Three, it's long past time for the church to end outright discrimination, to stop treating women like second-class citizens, and to welcome women to the priesthood.
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, the "musical priesthood" formed by Tei Blow and Sean McElroy, finds mystical absurdity in modern life by splicing found media and ancient ritual.
ROME — Pope Francis on Saturday expelled from the priesthood two retired Chilean bishops accused of abusing minors, and made it clear they had no possibility of appeal.
Mr. Lombardy eventually left the priesthood, his son said, because he had lost faith in the Catholic Church, which he believed was too concerned with amassing wealth.
Some defenders of the church argue that the priesthood has been unfairly targeted and that the problem of sexual abuse is just as common in other institutions.
As a bishop, he took pride in his success at recruiting young men to the priesthood — including one he met in an airport, according to his colleagues.
Her father came to the United States six months short of being ordained for the priesthood in Italy; instead he became an organizer for the longshoremen's union.
After Mr. Aristide became president in 1990, having left the priesthood, he appointed Mr. Préval as his prime minister, placing him in charge of the government's operations.
Pope Francis, however, has said that the door to a female priesthood was closed by his predecessor Pope John Paul, and that he would not open it.
"Am I going to leave the priesthood because I'm sick of that accusation?" asked Father Michael Shanahan, a Chicago priest who came out publicly three years ago.
"He talks all the time about mercy, and he has no mercy on woman called to the priesthood," Pat Brown from Catholic Women's Ordination told VICE News.
He was not however, expelled from the priesthood and was allowed to keep the title of bishop, something which advocates for victims of abuse said they found shocking.
Although the Catholic Church currently only ordains unmarried men to the priesthood, some converts, from Anglicanism for example, can become Catholic priests even if they are already married.
It's even worse for teens who were raised using Rulon Jeffs's "Keep Sweet" training, which taught children that, as "priesthood people," they did not fight, disagree, or resist.
He will likely be dismissed from the priesthood, which would make him the highest profile Roman Catholic figure to be defrocked in modern times, according to Vatican sources.
Monson was present in 1978 when the church's then president, Spencer Kimball, declared that under a new revelation from God, black men would be admitted to the priesthood.
He added that the "bishop's assistant," Ben Johnson, "is of no priesthood and needs go far away on repenting labor" and is barred from communicating with other members.
For example we never consult the state about the ordination of a particular person into episcope or into priesthood or moving a person from one position to another.
Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after an investigation found sex abuse allegations against him were credible, the Vatican said Saturday.
He attended St. Columb's College, a boys' grammar school in Londonderry, before the diocese sent him to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome to prepare for the priesthood.
Wasn't I bothered to learn earlier this month that Pope Francis signed off on an explicit ban of gay men and LGBTQ-affirming individuals from entering the priesthood?
One of the sources said that if he is defrocked, McCarrick will be the highest profile Roman Catholic figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
Just as De Niro learned to box for "Raging Bull," they familiarized themselves with the rites and disciplines of the Jesuit priesthood to bring authenticity to their performances.
Father Lott was his mentor as he joined the priesthood, and also his family priest, officiating over the marriages of his siblings and the funerals of his grandmothers.
He asked Mr. Ciolek, who had left the priesthood in 22008 to marry a woman, if he planned to sue the diocese, and then mentioned Archbishop McCarrick's name.
Teaching standards of morality to youth and helping them follow those standards -- including in interviews with priesthood leaders -- is an important responsibility of parents and of the Church.
The Vatican eventually instructed Father Tosi's bishop to admonish him and remind him of his responsibilities as a father, but did not demand his removal from the priesthood.
And yet the Roman Catholic Church, my church, excludes more than half its members from full participation by barring women, for reasons of gender alone, from the priesthood.
He seems broken, his assumptions shattered; when he's approached to hear a confession years after he leaves the priesthood, he refuses, unwilling to put the supplicant in danger.
This allowed Father D. to develop a more realistic approach to whatever intimacy needs he had while remaining within the bounds of a celibate priesthood if he so chose.
McCarrick was expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood a year ago after a Vatican investigation found him guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults and abuse of power.
Earlier this year, the church held a celebration it called "Be One," which commemorated a 1978 policy change allowing men of African descent to hold the religion's lay priesthood.
He and other victims said bishops who had covered up abuse should be dismissed from the priesthood, known as laicization, just like those who had committed the abuse itself.
The Women's Ordination Conference, which advocates for a female priesthood in Catholicism, said it was encouraged by the fact that the group was gender-balanced and included lay people.
He has long felt drawn to the priesthood; the two masses he has composed and his book on devotional readings, "The Bible as Prayer", are commentaries on his belief.
I was drawn to thought on evil as a seminarian trying to make sense of the intractable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that framed my formation for the priesthood.
It is what connects Murnane's flinty Catholic upbringing—which culminated in a brief flirtation with the priesthood as a young man—with the monkish, otherworldly concerns of his books.
The pontiff seemed open to the possibility of ordaining women to the rank of deacon: in other words to a form, at least in the loose sense, of priesthood.
In July, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, resigned amid numerous allegations that he had sexually abused altar boys and young men in line for the priesthood.
Three of those clerics are dead, two are in prison, one was defrocked, one has agreed to leave the priesthood, and one is still in active ministry, in Rome.
Mr. Abbott has more personal ties to the church than most prime ministers: As a young man, he briefly trained at a seminary in Manly to enter the priesthood.
Huge decisions have been made based on Mormon presidents' prophecies, according to church leaders, including ending the practice of polygamy and opening the priesthood to men of African descent.
"This is a secret that has been sitting in front of us in open sources for decades, that's what drives me personally nuts," said Wall, who left the priesthood.
In a preemptive move in March, Malone released a list of 42 priests in the Buffalo diocese who had left the priesthood after facing accusations of sexually abusing minors.
Over the weekend: Pope Francis expelled a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington from the priesthood after the church found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians.
All else aside, the book speaks to the enormous and seemingly growing tension between a church that frequently vilifies and marginalizes gay men and a priesthood dense with them.
One of the topics of discussion at that meeting is expected to be the possibility of ordaining older married men to the priesthood, in cases of exceptional pastoral necessity.
He heads a priesthood with a high proportion of gay men who, whether or not they obey the command to be celibate, dare not speak openly about their orientation.
Benedict, an 89-year-old German, stood without a cane for part of a ceremony in a Vatican hall to mark the 65th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
The Vatican considers female ordination a serious crime; they issued an order to say that anyone who participates in the ordination of a woman to the priesthood automatically excommunicates themselves.
The players were removed from the team after wearing black armbands in protest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints policy of denying priesthood to black men.
In the 1980s, a schism in the FLDS priesthood council — which advises and enacts the will of the prophet — led to the expulsion of several men, along with their families.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media reported on Thursday.
If, for example, a priest would want to be a deputy of the state Duma, he would have to renounce priesthood and only after this he can take this position.
And now, here I am waiting six hours to see a protégé of Jesus, a man who was studying for the priesthood before he left to work as a healer.
At this point, scientists have proposed everything from a nuclear priesthood to radioactive cats as ways of conveying the idea of danger about the nuclear repository sites to future generation.
Long before 2016, the fault line was there, rumbling with every papal pronouncement affirming the male-only priesthood or claiming to speak with moral authority on issues of human sexuality.
He could face further punishment by the Vatican, including being ordered to spend the rest of his life in prayer and penance, or could be dismissed from the priesthood entirely.
The energy of young people on the side of the Francis Effect can and should be harnessed by a movement to allow women to fulfill their vocation to the priesthood.
Born and raised Roman Catholic, I left the church in 1988 because of its laws on annulment, its refusal to ordain women to the priesthood and its frequent intellectual intolerance.
A working-class kid from Romford whose prospects had been either the priesthood or a job in the Dagenham car plant, like his dad, had the world at his feet.
He was the first person who had held such high rank in the Catholic Church to be removed from the priesthood because of the sexual abuse scandals of recent years.
In the Netherlands this week, a group of gay priests made public a letter sent to Francis late last year calling out the church's stance on homosexuality in the priesthood.
He went on to what was then Woodstock College in Maryland, outside Baltimore, the first Jesuit seminary in the United States, where he was ordained into the priesthood in 1966.
The reported allegations against Mr. Capparelli took place while he was still in the priesthood, but they continued to emerge in the years after he left the ministry in 1992.
The move means that Pell, who maintains his innocence and plans to appeal the verdict, could be dismissed from the priesthood if the Vatican's doctrinal department also finds him guilty.
Separately, several priests and ex-priests have come forward alleging McCarrick used his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
Up to the moment it becomes known, it is a balancing act between the priesthood and a relationship, or series of relationships, which they come to believe they cannot live without.
Difficulties in finding a sponsor led him to pledge himself to the priesthood full time in 2013, and to retire from foreign competition in order to focus on his new profession.
Leonardo Boff, the left-wing Brazilian theologian who left the priesthood in 1992 and then married, has described as "catastrophic" a situation where 18,000 priests in his country serve 140m Catholics.
Conservative opponents called it a threat to the tradition of the priesthood, another troubling sign Francis was willing to dilute the faith to pursue a more inclusive, but less pure, church.
Establishment of the United Order created a highly stratified and hierarchical society of elites, regular priesthood holders, people "on restoral" who are trying to earn their way back in, and apostates.
In the late 19th century, Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and dropout from the priesthood, found his life's goal: to create a sporting culture that existed separate from political concerns.
The pain of self-understanding (that he wasn't suited for the priesthood) passed seamlessly into self-critique, and, ultimately, into a form of confession that remains unique in Buddhist teaching today.
We take every morally supple situation and we hand it over to the legal priesthood, which by necessity is a system of technocratic rationalism, strained slippery-slope analogies and implied coercion.
Should celibacy be rethought, he admits, the logic of female exclusion would grow weaker, as would the traditional conception of the priesthood and, with it, the traditional conception of the church.
Last week, the pope expelled Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, from the priesthood after the church found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians.
How Pope Francis brought me back to the Catholic Church If this experience leads to a decision to leave the priesthood and marry, as it often does, there is no psychological problem.
"He repeated that I needed to 'support and sustain the priesthood' and that my husband's career would be at risk if I didn't move with him to support him," the woman recalled.
Proponents of a female priesthood, like 32-year-old Kate McElwee, who organised the protest on the synod's opening day, say Jesus was merely acting according to the norms of his times.
In a 2005 document, released under Francis's predecessor Pope Benedict, the Vatican said the Church could admit into the priesthood those who had clearly overcome homosexual tendencies for at least three years.
The Archdiocese found that allegation "credible and substantiated," and turned it over to the Vatican, which eventually expelled McCarrick from the priesthood; he's the first cardinal to be defrocked over sex abuse.
" In a separate statement, Connolly said the Supreme Court "is not some mystical priesthood" and that in the digital age "it strains credulity that this modest effort at transparency would prove impossible.
For Pell to be dismissed from the priesthood, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would have to find him guilty following a separate canonical trial or a shorter process.
A former prime minister, Tony Abbott, who once studied for the Catholic priesthood and whose sister is gay and wants to marry, proposed in August 2015 that a public vote be held.
VATICAN CITY, May 24 (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media reported on Thursday.
If the community became aware of a priest's abuse, the priest was simply moved to another location where people were not aware of his past, instead of being removed from the priesthood.
Just by closing this door, they are telling us quite loudly that (in my opinion) women are not worthy of the priesthood and that they are not able to fulfill the obligations.
I think that they know that homosexuality is not related to child abuse, that it is neither a choice nor a perversion, and that it should not be disqualifying for the priesthood.
Mr. Doyle, who once studied for the priesthood and has sought to cooperate with church leaders, played a role in developing them, said Martin Long, a spokesman for the Irish Bishops' Conference.
It wasn't enough in 2012, when it was revealed that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York had essentially paid off men to leave the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
But he had a sheltered upbringing, and given the era he grew up in, he interpreted his disinterest as a calling to join the priesthood, like many young men who felt similarly.
Although tutored by Catholics who recognized his intellectual prowess, he had to study for the priesthood at a papal university in Rome because no seminary in the United States would take him.
This is more typical of what is seen in treatment centers: men who yield to their passions but are unable or unwilling to leave the priesthood they love and on which they depend.
The 89-year-old, once a power-broker as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2006, is the highest profile Church figure to have been dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
When we last left the people of West Covina, Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III) ditched his seaside wedding to Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) in order to follow his just-discovered "dream" of joining the priesthood.
If we want to change Kavekana, to fix the Penitents and everything else without armed revolt, the priesthood needs a surplus--something to wean us off investments in bone oil and necromantic earths.
It was the most direct mention ever in a Vatican document of the possibility of a married priesthood, albeit limited, and a greater ministerial role for women in one area of the world.
An estimated 150,000 men have left the priesthood, largely in part because they're banned from getting married—but the figure could still be much higher since the Catholic Church can under-report departures.
According to the Times, McCarrick, a superstar within the Church, was so charismatic and convincing that he once apparently persuaded a man to enter the priesthood after talking to him in an airport.
Tradition dictates that after a Dalai Lama dies, the high priesthood of Tibetan Lamaism searches for his reincarnation using a series of portents that lead them to his reborn soul in a child.
In May, he announced an inquiry of his own—into the possibility of ordaining women as deacons (a lower rank than that of priest which, unlike the priesthood, is open to married men).
Pope Francis has dismissed ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the priesthood after an investigation found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over a decades-long period, the Vatican said Saturday.
It's likely the first time a cardinal has been expelled from the priesthood specifically because of sexual abuse, but comes too late for McCarrick's victims to pursue criminal charges against their alleged abuser.
Many explanations have been offered: the all-male priesthood and the celibacy imposed on Catholic priests; the elitism, careerism and clericalism of the church hierarchy; the lack of transparency or accountability among bishops.
He helped out at his family-run pub in Ballarat, the Cattleyards, and after high school, he signed a contract with a professional Australian Rules Football club before leaving to join the priesthood.
You have to learn how to be a "we" rather than a "me" — the celibate priesthood is kind of honing you to be individualistic, yet also an overly generous servant of the church.
Now, some Mormons are left wondering how fast God's mind -- or that of church leadership -- might change on other policies considered archaic in some circles, including the exclusion of women from the priesthood.
He gave the bishops a detailed outline of what exactly they were supposed to do when confronted with abuse cases and said that candidates for the priesthood needed to undergo more rigorous screening.
Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood last February after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, including forcing seminarians to sleep with him.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Vatican said on Saturday.
Yet what stands out for this most recent toleration of at least some suicides is the lack of autonomy; to be legitimate, it seems, suicide must be sanctioned by that new priesthood, medical authority.
Poland is still the most religiously-inclined state in Europe - though even there, a once-fervent Roman Catholicism is declining and the priesthood was sharply criticized in a recent much-viewed film, "Kler" ("Clergy").
They are the proud custodians of an internally logical set of rules, developed over years, that do not seem to be producing good results and cannot easily be communicated to anyone outside the priesthood.
The details section on this page clearly shows that the bureau views Phineas Priesthood members as domestic terrorists, and believes some members were responsible for bombings and bank robberies in Spokane, Washington, in 1996.
But this often leads to "body shaming," says Kate Kelly, the founder of Ordain Women who was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2014 for advocating female entry into the all-male Mormon priesthood.
In 1730, the family's habit of pushing the second son into the priesthood, so as not to split the estate, paid off when a Corsini was elected pope and chose the name Clement XII.
That stance puts Francis in line with his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who issued a document in 2005 stating that men with "deeply rooted homosexual tendencies" shouldn't be allowed to study for the priesthood.
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said.
When the last of the Anglican ecclesiastical refugees dies, if no change has been made in the meantime, the Catholic priesthood of the Western or Latin rite will go back to being entirely celibate.
" The church takes its name from the Bible ("ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people") and, according to its website, is "positioned for the end-time harvest.
Included on that list was Theodore E. McCarrick, the former cardinal who was one of the highest-profile leaders in the church to be accused of abuse and was recently expelled from the priesthood.
" Though he said of himself, "I am not a believer [in God]," he told his students that "the career of painter is a true Priesthood," and famously declared that paint is, "The language of God!
The Vatican defrocked McCarrick in February after finding him guilty of sexually abusing children and adults, making him one of the most high-profile Church figures to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
Thomas said that his spiritual directors over the years — all of whom know he is transgender, and some of whom have assessed candidates for the priesthood — have privately affirmed his desire to enter religious life.
Mr. Hendricks has been living in the Philippines for 37 years, mostly in the same area, working first as a Franciscan brother before he was ordained into the priesthood, according to people who knew him.
To be dismissed from the priesthood, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would have to find him guilty following a separate canonical trial or a shortened procedure, known as an "administrative process".
Progressives said it was high time the church recognized reality and the demands of the faithful; conservatives called the idea a threat to the priesthood, and warned that married priests would follow everywhere, including Europe.
The decision, one of the most significant of his papacy, appeared a victory for conservative senior clergy, who had feared a slippery slope towards a married priesthood throughout the Church if the recommendation was approved.
Just over a year later, in December 2013, the organization published an essay called Race and the Priesthood, which details its history of not allowing Blacks to be priests or full members of the church.
The idea is to allow older married men with grown children and a strong standing in the Church - "viri probati" or proven men - to join the priesthood and help fill a gap in their communities.
If defrocked, Pell would be the highest profile figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times and only the second Roman Catholic prelate to lose the title of cardinal in nearly 100 years.
The accusations that Mr. McCarrick, as an archbishop, had abused his seminary students and young priests — and not only children — caused some Catholic conservatives to call for the expulsion of gay men from the priesthood.
The highest-profile prelate to be implicated was former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, who was expelled from the priesthood in February after the church found him guilty of abusing children and adult seminarians.

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