Sentence examples for future priesthood from inspiring English sources

I went to an all-boys boarding school run by Trappist monks, where my whole focus was on my future priesthood.

It also funds the Temple Institute, whose head, Chaim Richman, organises religious Jewish tours of the sanctuary (and is seeking a red heifer to purify a future temple priesthood).

On Monday evening, after a vespers service at St. Joseph's chapel in which Archbishop Dolan addressed the seminarians as "the future of the priesthood I love," many of them stood around gaping with what seemed a mixture of curiosity and awe as he held court in a scrum of television cameras and sound booms, answering questions from reporters.

Amid such worldly excesses, only Moore knew how deeply attracted he was to a future life in the priesthood.

** Amid such worldly excesses, only Moore knew how deeply attracted he was to a future life in the priesthood.

If he had been scratched — the privileged son and grandson of Episcopal millionaires — while growing up in Convent Station, near Morristown, New Jersey, where he was born in 1919, few would have found anything to suggest that his future lay in the priesthood, of his Church or any other.

And celibacy will surely become a rediscovered value of a far stronger priesthood in the future.

NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey -- who famously announced he was "a gay American" when he resigned in 2004 -- will not be ordained into the Episcopal Church priesthood in the near future.

A13 Catholics Split on Gay Priests Grappling with the implications of a Vatican directive issued last week that would bar most gay men from seminaries, Roman Catholics at parishes around the country offered contrasting interpretations of its impact on the priesthood, on the potential for future sexual abuse by clergy members and on the church itself.

A1 Bishops' Proposal on Abuse A Roman Catholic bishops committee proposed mandatory procedures that would obligate American bishops to remove from the priesthood anyone who abuses a minor in the future, but would allow leeway in old cases involving a single incident.

Removing from the priesthood anyone who abuses a minor in the future while allowing for leeway in old cases where there is a single instance of abuse is an inconsistency that demeans all victims of abuse, who carry for life the terrible harm done to them.