Sentence examples for celibate from inspiring English sources

He is at peace, content, single, "and celibate; it's easier".

The urge to prey on children is not confined to the supposedly celibate clergy and exists in all walks of life.

Somehow Ms Kusama, a celibate, became a proponent of the sexual-liberation movement.

Karen King of Harvard University presented a translation at a conference in Rome on September 18th.Churches that believe their priests must be celibate in order to be like Jesus are not about to change their rules, though.

The church cannot solve any of its deep-seated problems without a bruising debate about one of its fundamental traditions: that the best point of contact between man and God is a celibate male priesthood.

The church he loved was celibate, hostile to women priests and set against gays; if Catholics were only faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium, he wrote, all would be well.

It is like being sexually active but having a celibate marriage.

But Mr Weigel dreams of something quite different: a reinvigorated celibate priesthood, and reinvigorated religious orders, in which men and women freely commit themselves to a life of abstinence and service to God as a riposte to the self-worship which, in his view, defines modern times.

He stayed celibate, rarely went to sea himself and was not a navigator.

It is not career-threatening for two of the country's hottest young actors to star in a sincere, affectionate (and, to British eyes, excruciating) movie-comedy, "Keeping the Faith", in which a trendy young rabbi and priest in New York end up affirming the principle of priestly celibacy.But finding real-life priests who are willing to be celibate, let alone trendy, is another matter.

Trainers, believing sexual activity weakened a man, insisted that their charges remain celibate while training for a big fight.