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Priesthood
Definition:
(n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
(n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francis said nothing that would appear to counter that, although some observers said his remarks set him apart from Benedict, who said that men with deep-seated tendencies should not enter the priesthood.
(2) The older man was drunk and was ranting about men who left the priesthood.
(3) It is a decision you make, and although it is not exactly like joining the priesthood, it is something that may or may not be useful to society and is a philosophical path.
(4) Today there was careful assessment of whether people were medically and psychologically fit to join the priesthood, he said.
(5) Finn will get to keep his paycheck, his priesthood and even his bishop’s title .
(6) When the writer Dennis Potter was asked about television for The New Priesthood (1970) , a volume on television Joan Bakewell co-edited, he told her: “The main criticism with television is that it just seems an endlessly grinding thing – a burning monk, an advertisement, and Harold Wilson, and a pop show, and Jimmy Savile, all seem the same sort of experience.” But on the other hand, compared with the “middle-class privilege of the theatre, only television is classless, multiple, and, of course, people will switch on and people will choose.
(7) Lenny gave up his priesthood when O'Brien was promoted to be his bishop.
(8) Rejected as a candidate for the priesthood, the English author Frederick Rolfe wrote, under the pseudonym “Baron Corvo”, a novel, Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which a failed priest is later made pope by a repentant Vatican.
(9) After Cardinal O'Brien resigned over the allegations against him , one of the men who had made them talked about his own decision to leave the priesthood: he said it had been presumed he did so to get married, but this was not the case.
(10) I have not approved or participated in these very serious and dishonest acts … I reiterate together with the entire church that there is no room in the priesthood for those who commit these abuses.” Peter Saunders, a British abuse survivor who sits on a new papal commission to protect children, credits Pope Francis for being vocal about the abuse scandals.
(11) Advocates of a female priesthood reject the church’s view, saying that Jesus was acting according to the norms of his times.
(12) Unfortunately, this is not a lesson that the global financial priesthood seems keen to learn.
(13) In 2007 a senior official was suspended from the congregation, or department, for the priesthood, after he was filmed in a "sting" organised by an Italian television programme while apparently making sexual overtures to a younger man.
(14) Martin entered the priesthood as a novice in 1988 after a 10-year career as a stockbroker in the City of London, the Daily Mail reported.
(15) The service marked a final and decisive break with the tradition of an all-male priesthood.
(16) After an early run-in with the law as a gang member, Moore briefly entertained the idea of entering the priesthood, but then devoted himself to a life as an activist, as director of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice.
(17) Church of England bishops are being cowed by a small group of “super-conservative puritans” who believe homosexuality is a sin, leaving most too scared to speak out in support of gay and lesbian clergy and parishioners, according a leading gay vicar who is quitting the priesthood.
(18) For a while Bob, an altar boy, considered the priesthood, but he succumbed to art and, after graduating from Blair academy, New Jersey, in 1948, he departed for California.
(19) On her return from India she worked on Merseyside before training to became a deaconess – then the closest a woman could come to the priesthood – in 1982.
(20) After entering the priesthood he became an activist in the Sunday School movement, which was launched to revive Christian religious education.