Sentence examples for for refusing to baptize from inspiring English sources

He chided priests last year for refusing to baptize children of single mothers.

Although many drug traffickers consider themselves devout Catholics, priests have reportedly been killed for denouncing criminality, or even for refusing to baptize the children of narcos.

The stories of the new Pope cleaning the feet of AIDS patients in his native Argentina and disparaging fellow clerics for refusing to baptize the children of unmarried mothers show just how much the energies of the Vatican bully pulpit could be redirected.

Robertson had some stiff competition for the title, managing to beat out notorious homophobe Niall Ferguson; Rev. George Gebauer, who came under fire for refusing to baptize a lesbian couple; Scott Lively, who has single-handily taken credit for inspiring Russia's anti-gay laws, and outspoken anti-gay adoption politician Winston McKenzie.

In Buenos Aires, the cardinal showed real compassion for HIV victims, and he sternly rebuked priests who refused to baptize children born out of wedlock.

It's hard not to be impressed by someone who ferociously rebukes those priests who refuse to baptize the children of single mothers.

He simply refused to baptize the native people of Hispaniola.

Divorced and remarried outside the Catholic Church, she left it behind when priests refused to baptize her children.

The church refuses to baptize anyone planning on undergoing sex-reassignment surgery and will not ordain transgender people to the priesthood.

Can they be fired for refusing to?

In 1492 he persuaded the Catholic Monarchs to expel all Jews who refused to be baptized.