Sentence examples for celibacy from from inspiring English sources

"I think a lot of women come to celibacy from a position of anger -- maybe 50percentt of the women I talk to," she said.

(A highlight of the debate occurred when Peter Bottomley, M.P. for Worthing West, said, "Most of us have a naked body, and very few of us inherited celibacy from our parents").

His reference was to a 1991 policy paper, "Issues in Human Sexuality," that permitted members of the congregation to pursue faithful homosexual relationships but demanded celibacy from gay priests.

Both are leading candidates to succeed Benedict and are on opposite sides in a vital debate: whether the church's sex-abuse woes stem chiefly from structural problems in the church, such as (implicitly) priestly celibacy, or from sinfulness (which is Benedict's position).While that smoulders at the top, another row is flaring at the grassroots.

In the11th century, the demand for clerical celibacy came from below, as communities sought to establish that their priest was a disinterested party they could trust, and not someone who would put the interests of his children and grandchildren ahead of the common good.

As celibacy changed from one of the highest ideals into a counterrevolutionary act, this new "morality" even involved the raping of resistant Tibetan nuns.

Ranging from celibacy, vegetarianism and physical isolation from society to radical asceticism, starvation and martyrdom, self-sacrifice became an integral aspect of the Christian religion at its advent.

Asexuality is distinct from abstention from sexual activity and from celibacy, which are behavioral and generally motivated by factors such as an individual's personal or religious beliefs.

The Vatican has made it easier for bishops to dismiss from the priesthood and release from celibacy rules those priests who have been living with women, abandoned their ministry or engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior, the Catholic News Service has reported.

The following year, the Vatican formally and pointedly released him both from celibacy and the "clerical state" and effectively barred him from teaching unless the local bishop decided otherwise.

He became an adherent of Ramakrishna's Advaita Vedanta Hinduism, which advocated celibacy for those seeking enlightenment, and detachment from human responsibilities such as family.