Sentence examples for men being ordained from inspiring English sources

So, without a trustworthy clergy, where will people turn?" The number of young men being ordained for a three-month period—a centuries-old rite of adolescence has fallen precipitously in the past five years.

Improper screening of candidates for seminaries led to some psychologically sick men being ordained as priests.

One thing usually used as a reason why only men are ordained is that Jesus called only men as apostles.

This explained the abundance of the clergy in a small city like Quito; often men were ordained not because of a vocation but because it solved their economic problems and improved their community standing.

In the New York Archdiocese, for example, where only one man was ordained into the priesthood this year, about 25 men over age 75 are still working as priests, and several are older than 85.

In De prima philosophia, Vives writes: "human inquiry comes to conjectural conclusions, for we do not deserve certain knowledge (scientia), stained by sin as we are and hence burdened with the great weight of the body; nor do we need it, for we see that man is ordained lord and master of everything in the sublunary world" (III, 188).

The leaders of official Catholicism maintain and practice the belief that at the moment a man is ordained he becomes ontologically superior to laypeople.

It may not, however, be the kind of book read by those dwindling numbers of men now being ordained.

Indeed, African-American men were barred from being ordained into the church's all-male lay priesthood until 1978, when a "revelation" from God to the Mormon president finally ended that policy.

It states that anyone who objects to being ordained by a woman bishop can make a written request for it to be carried out by a man.

Anyone who objects to being ordained by a woman can make a written request for it to be carried out by a man.