Sentence examples for priesthood from from inspiring English sources

■ Why were black men excluded from the priesthood from the mid-1800s until 1978?

"For all purposes, his life in the diocese was over," Mr. Brown said, adding that his continued membership in the priesthood from 1978 to 1987 had been mischaracterized.

Born to working-class parents, Annie and John, in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, Ken felt called to the priesthood from an early age.

The Priesthood From the Beginning, Accusations of Abuse Two weeks after he was ordained in 1960, Paul Shanley was named an assistant pastor at St . Patricks Church in Stoneham, a working-class suburb north of Boston.

But a Father Conway took me aside and said, 'I don't think you should go.' Whether he was saving me from the priesthood, or the priesthood from me, I don't know.

"Whether he was saving me from the priesthood or saving the priesthood from me, I don't know.

(Blacks were excluded from the priesthood and from temple ceremonies).

Yet it is only common sense to see a connection between the scandals and the requirement of priestly celibacy — and, for that matter, between the scandals and the exclusion of women not only from the priesthood but from all positions of official power within the Church.

Shortly after his promotion at the University of Würzburg, Brentano withdrew from the priesthood and from his position as professor.

Yet, the arguments for the dominant view remain rather undeveloped, as is illustrated by William Galston's remarks: "While we may regret the exclusion of women from the Catholic priesthood and from the rabbinate of Orthodox Judaism, I take it that we would agree that otherwise binding antidiscrimination laws should not be invoked to end these practices….

Presumably, the Roman Catholic Church's concern about gays in the priesthood stems from a desire to protect children from sexual abuse by priests.