Sentence examples for In priesthood from inspiring English sources

"Women in priesthood, women in diaconate are important issues, but they are not the only issues".

Another area in which Bishop Egan was very successful, and where there is a high interest in seeing a continuation, is in priesthood vocations.

The solutions of institutionalizing poverty in priesthood and monasticism, while rationalizing poverty as poverty of the spirit and material wealth as God's provision for ministry, formed the basis for medieval care of the poor.

Joaquín Navarro-Valls, the pope's spokesman, is ill advised in his attempt to blame homosexuals for the pedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church ("Homosexuality in Priesthood Is Under Increasing Scrutiny," front page, April 19).

Such struggles are not uncommon in priesthood.

His marriage just before his elevation to the archbishopric is fair proof that he expected no such career in the priesthood, in which a necessarily unacknowledged wife would be nothing but an embarrassment.

But didn't it occur to anyone that in the priesthood, as in prison, a rule of celibacy might be very, very hard for young men to observe?

But that was a catastrophic mistake for them because then the question became, what about homosexuals in the priesthood and in the hierarchy?

A majority of Catholics also said they did not believe that there were more gays in the priesthood than in other walks of life.

"In marriage as in the priesthood, things have gotten confused.

For the past 16 months, I've served in a priesthood leadership role in my local Mormon congregation as my authentic self -- an openly gay man.