Sentence examples for priest work from inspiring English sources

If you fancy becoming a cardinal, you could always enrol in a theology course, enter a seminary, get ordained as a priest, work your way up to bishop, and then try to bring yourself to the notice – in a good way – of the pope.

He leaves the Passionist order and becomes a "cowboy priest" working among Indians in New Mexico.

While there he became acquainted with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a charismatic Roman Catholic priest working in the slums.

At the time, Father Shanley was a highly publicized "street priest," working with runaways and youthful drug addicts.

Its subject is a young priest working his way through a full litany of unpriestly behaviour, including encouraging his girlfriend to get an abortion.

In canon law a priest working with or in place of the pastor of a parish is called a vicar, or curate.

One pastor for whom the priest worked was not told of letters of complaint, psychological evaluations and a recommendation that he be closely watched.

"We're upset and we're worried," Father Alejandro Solalinde, an activist priest working with Central American migrants in Oaxaca, told the online news outlet Sin Embargo.

Just two weeks earlier, the parishioners learned that a priest working with their church's youth groups had been barred from being around children unsupervised — a restriction that he accepted to avoid retrial on a sexual abuse charge.

Benedict not only served as the archbishop of the diocese where the priest worked, but also later as the cardinal in charge of reviewing sexual abuse cases for the Vatican.

It was famous primarily for Mother Teresa, and through Dominique Lapierre's book, City of Joy (about a real-life-inspired Polish priest working in a slum), and the film, starring Patrick Swayze, of the same name.