Sentence examples for make celibacy from inspiring English sources

In recent decades the Vatican has come under pressure to make celibacy optional and allow priests to marry, with supporters saying that this would help ease the acute shortage of priests in many areas.

VATICAN CITY, May 19 (Reuters) - Twenty-six whoen who say they are in love with Roman Catholic priests have written to Pope Francis urging him to make celibacy optional.

For years, reform groups in the Catholic Church like CORPUS: the National Association for a Married Priesthood, and Call to Action have called upon the hierarchy to make celibacy optional for diocesan priests.

Many sexually healthy men make celibacy work, but the requirement to be celibate eliminates many men (and all women! -- see "Sex and the City of God, Part 1") from the pool of those who would be ordained, while creating a de facto haven for sexually maladjusted men in search of comfort, and perhaps even a cure.

"It is only poverty which makes celibacy contemptible," Emma Gwyneth Paltroww) patiently explains to her friend Harriet (Toni Collette), who therefore will be needing a husband.

Eventually Mr. Joseph's interest in girls made celibacy a nonstarter, but his interest in good and evil, in sin and redemption, found powerful expression in his calling as a playwright.

Although celibacy was practiced by a small Gentile ascetic movement and by a few small Jewish groups mainstream Judaism did not promote celibacy, because of the biblical mandate, "Be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1 28)—it was the passages from Paul and Matthew that made celibacy a major issue in Western and especially Christian history.

Emma has vowed never to marry, and when she and her protegé, the cuddly Harriet Smith, who falls in love all the time, talk of the possibility of Emma's being an old maid Emma quiets Harriet's fears with this: "It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public.

If permanent abstinence (i.e. involuntary celibacy) is recommended by your doctor, or if a medical condition has made involuntary celibacy required, chances are you and your partner will need long-term support.[11] Consider seeing a sex therapist in order to develop a plan for how to deal.[12].[12]

More than 500,000 Austrian Catholics signed the so called "church referendum", a grassroots petition for radical church reforms including making priestly celibacy voluntary and ordaining women.

However, he doesn't think making clerical celibacy optional in order to attract more young men to the priesthood is the way forward.