Catholic priests and celibacy: a flashpoint in sexual abuse crisisThe No. 2 at the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, appearedTuesday to ease the church's...Catholic Priests and Celibacy: A Flashpoint in Sexual Abuse CrisisMarquand, Robert...
Celibacy of the Clergy is the renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the...
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Again, Protestant time lines of “Catholic inventions” assign “mandatory priestly celibacy” to this or that year in Church history, as if prior to this requirement the Church could not have been Catholic. These Protestants are often surprised to learn that even today celibacy is not the rule...
: of, relating to, or being a Christian church having a hierarchy of priests and bishops under the pope, a liturgy centered in the Mass, veneration of the Virgin Mary and saints, clerical celibacy, and a body of dogma including transubstantiation and papal infallibility Examples of Roman ...
We should honor Richard M. Bennett for his great courage, his dedication, and his hard work in exposing (and doing so in love) both the unbiblical doctrines and practices of Roman Catholicism (e.g., Purgatory, Transubstantiation, mandatory clerical celibacy, and indulgences, etc.), and also...
Eastern Rite Catholics and Anglican married clergy who subsequently convert to Catholicism are allowed to have married priests. Clergy, celibacy The majority of Protestants do not require celibacy as a condition of election to the clergy. Clergy, celibacy Priests and deacons may marry before ordinati...
: of, relating to, or being a Christian church having a hierarchy of priests and bishops under the pope, a liturgy centered in the Mass, veneration of the Virgin Mary and saints, clerical celibacy, and a body of dogma including transubstantiation and papal infallibility Examples of Roman ...
celibacy the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. — celibate, n., adj. chrism 1. a sacramental oil.2. a sacramental anointing; unction.3. Eastern Christianity. the rite of confirmation. clericalism 1. an undue influence of the...
5. As a rule, the priest who has been dispensed from priestly celibacy, and, all the more so, a priest who has married, ought to stay away from places where his previous status is known. Nevertheless, the Ordinary of the place where the petitioner is staying, after he has listened, in...