Sentence examples for celibacy on from inspiring English sources

A reformer, Isaac tightened clerical discipline and enforced celibacy on Armenian bishops.

A variant theory even suggested that, by imposing celibacy on Buddhist monks, Laozi intended the foreigners' extinction.

Many of his acts were deeply selfish: he did not consult his wife before imposing his vow of celibacy on her.

It describes the destructive effects of celibacy on a priest of weak character and the dangers of fanaticism in a provincial Portuguese town.

Always hostile to religion, he railed against the Catholic Church for imposing celibacy on some of its most gifted representatives over the centuries.

Pope Gregory VII in the 11th century imposed celibacy on Catholic priests, forcing them to choose between the church and the family.

People here blame the shortage of priests not on celibacy but on a society warped by materialistic, self-gratifying values, an absence of commitment shown, they say, in everything from the dissolution of half the nation's marriages to Alex Rodriguez's cash-dependent attachment to the Yankees.

Nicetas criticized Western doctrine on the manner of relating the Holy Spirit to the divinity, on the claims of papal supremacy, on mandatory clerical celibacy, and on the use of unleavened bread in Roman eucharistic worship.

True to the conservative African church, Tumi supports Vatican doctrine on celibacy for priests and artificial birth contol.

Had the Jedi council not insisted on celibacy for its padawan, the future Sith Lord might have avoided the path of betrayal that eventually led to him joining Palpatine.

He told the BBC that the next pope should consider dropping the celibacy rule, on account of how isolated clergymen can be.