Sentence examples for compulsory celibacy from inspiring English sources

He did not manage to damp down the rebellions against compulsory celibacy in the priesthood, which have shaken the church in German-speaking countries.

What do faithful celibate priests of the Roman Obedience think about seeing their new colleagues happily allowed to bypass compulsory celibacy?

Maureen Dowd's scathing rebuke of Rome's inability to take a strong moral stand on the evil of priestly abuse of parishioners' children raises a question: If only priests who are "notorious" or "serial" pederasts are to be sanctioned, is not compulsory celibacy obviated?

Cardinal Carlo Montini, the former archbishop of Milan, a Jesuit and seen by many as the best candidate to succeed John Paul II as pope in 2005, expressed a preference for voluntary, rather than compulsory, celibacy for the clergy The situation in supposedly Catholic Latin America will be especially influenced by the recent decision.

7. End compulsory celibacy.

Is the child abuse scandal plaguing the Roman Catholic Church a result of compulsory celibacy for priests?

They touch on pastoral issues like lifting the ban on remarried Catholics taking Communion, creating a greater role for women in the Church and reopening the debate on compulsory clerical celibacy.

On 5 August, when the German delegates sent a letter to the king regarding three items that particularly worried them (compulsory clerical celibacy, the withholding of the chalice from the laity, and the maintenance of private masses for the dead), Tunstall was able to intervene for the king and to influence the decision.

It was not until the 11th century that a "revolution from above," the "Gregorian Reform" started by Pope Gregory VII, left us with the three enduring features of the Roman system: a centralist-absolutist papacy, compulsory clericalism and the obligation of celibacy for priests and other secular clergy.

Lifelong celibacy was not required either.

It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass and the imposition of compulsory services in English.