Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those in religious orders (female or male) adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage, sexual relationships including masturbation and "impure thoughts" (such as sexual visualisation and fantasies). Clerical celibacy - Background. In some Christian churches, priests and/or bishops must remain unmarried, while in others, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests but may not typically remarry after th ...

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• Clerical celibacy - Background
• Clerical celibacy - Rules
• Clerical celibacy - Celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
• Clerical celibacy - Celibacy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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In some Christian churches, priests and/or bishops must remain unmarried, while in others, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests but may not typically remarry after the death of their wife. In conjunction with Christian views prohibiting sex outside of marriage, this implies a life of sexual abstinence, and, essentially, abstinence from sexual or romantic relationships, including dating. In some cases it also discourages social contact with members of the ...

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Celibacy may refer either to being unmarried or to sexual abstinence. An oath of celibacy is a promise not to enter into marriage. Some writers prefer this usage of "celibacy", while others use it interchangeably as a synonym for abstinence. Some writers on sexuality draw a distinction between abstinence and celibacy, stating that celibacy means refraining from any sexual activity with a partner. They argue that this can be empowering, as it still allows that person to be "sexual" (through, for example, masturbation). This would not, however, be refered to as chaste celibacy, ...

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The Catholic Church's stated reasons for clerical celibacy in are both theological and practical. Foremost in the theological realm are the desire to follow the teachings of Jesus with regard to chastity and the sacrifice of married life for the "sake of the Kingdom" (Luke 18:28-30, Matthew 19:27-30; Mark 10:20-21), and to follow the example of Jesus Christ in being "married" to the Church, viewed by Catholicism and many Christian traditions as the "Bride of Christ". Also of import are the teachings of St. Paul that chastity is the superior ...

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Clerical marriage is the practice, followed in most Protestant churches, of allowing clergy to marry and have a family. This is in opposition to the doctrine of clerical celibacy currently followed in the Roman Catholic Church, where priests are not allowed to marry, on the principle that this leaves them free to devote their lives fully to the service of the Church and God. However, married priests have occasionally been allowed to transfer from other denominations - for example when a number of priests left the Church of England when it admitted women to the priesthood, ...

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Synod of Elvira, an ecclesiastical synod held in Spain, the date of which cannot be determined with exactness. The solution of the question hinges upon the interpretation of the canons, that is, upon whether they are to be taken as reflecting a recent, or as pointing to an imminent, persecution. Thus some argue for a date between 300 and 303, i.e. before the Diocletian persecution; others for a date between 303 and 314, after the persecution; but before the synod of Arles; still others for a date between the synod of Arles and ...

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia. This particular council of Constantinople, held in 692 under Justinian II, is generally known as the Council in Trullo, because it was held in the same domed hall where the Sixth General Council had met. Both the Fifth and the Sixth General Councils had omitted to draw up disciplinary canons, and as this council was intended to complete both in this respect, it also took the name of Quinisext (Latin:Concilium Quinisextum, Koine Greek:Euno ...

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The Councils of Orange (or the Synods of Orange) comprised two synods held at Orange, France. The first took place on November 8, AD 441, under the presidency of Hilary of Arles, with Eucherius of Lyons also being present. Seventeen bishops attended the meeting. Thirty canons (or judgements) were passed, dealing with unction, the Permission of penance, the right of asylum; recommending caution to bishops in the ordination of foreign clergy, the consecration of churches outside of their own jurisdictions, and other matters; impo ...

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Chastity, in many religious and cultural contexts, is a virtue concerning the state of the mind and body. Due to prohibitions of sexual intimacy in Abrahamic religions deriving from the Decalogue and Mosaic law, the term has become closely associated with premarital sexual abstinence in Western culture; however, in the context of religion, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance. Chastity - Classical origin. In a ...

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Brian Merriman (1749 – July 27, 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000 line long Cúirt An Mheán Óiche (The Midnight Court), is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the language. Brian Merriman - Merriman's life. Merriman appears to have been born in Ennistymon, County Clare. His mother was a woman called Quilkeen and his father, whose identity remains unknown, may have been a priest. Shortly after his birth, his mother marri ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Chu ...

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• Holy Orders - Other concepts of ordination
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A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. Priests have been known since the earliest times and in the simplest societies (see shaman and oracle). There are priests in some branches of Christianity, Shintoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many others, though each culture has a local denomination for the priestly office. Priests are generally regarded as having good contact with the deities of the religion ...

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Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. The term comes from Greek κληρος (a lot, that which is assigned by lot (allotment) or metaphorically, heritage). Depending on the religion, clergy usually take care of the ritual aspects of the religious life, teach or otherwise help in spreading the religion's doctrine and practices. They often deal with life-cycle events such as childbirth, circumcision, coming of age ceremonies, marriage, and death. Clergy of most faiths work both inside and outside formal houses of worship, and can be found working in hos ...

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In the late 20th century, and especially at the turn of the 21st, the Catholic Church in several countries was confronted with a series of allegations concerning sexual abuse of children under the legal age of consent ¹ by Catholic clergy and religious. The controversy was at its most famous when it hit the United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, several countries, including Canada, had already faced similar controversies with high-profile cases such as the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal in the province of ...

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• Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - Celibacy and the scandal
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• Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - Bankruptcy
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A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. The word comes from the Greek monachos (μοναχός), commonly translated as a solitary person, and by convention almost always refers to men (while the term nun is more commonly used to refer to female monastics), a ...

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Clerical Celibacy The Third Conclusion, sorrowful to hear, is: That the law of continence annexed to priesthood, that in prejudice of women was first ordained, induces sodomy in Holy Church; but we excuse us by the Bible, for the suspect decree that says we should not name it. Reason and experience prove this conclusion. For delicious meats and drinks of men of Holy Church will have needful purgation or worse. Experience for the privy assay of such men is that they like not women. The corollary of this conclusion is that the private religions. beginners of this sin, were most worthy to be ...

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Rowland's troubles with ecclesiastical authorities first blossomed in 1553 when he was arrested on July 25th, just six days after the new Queen Mary I ascended the throne. Aside from the fact that Taylor probably supported Lady Jane Grey, Mary's rival, he was also charged with probable heresy from having preached a sermon in Bury St. Edmunds. Taylor did not support the Roman Catholic position of clerical celibacy, which stated that a Priest must be unmarried. Remaining unmarried was part of a Priest's holy orders according to Roman Catholic teaching and tradition. Taylor, an Anglican, not a Roman Catholi ...

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On 22 October 2005 a government-commissioned report compiled by a former Irish Supreme Court judge delivered a damning indictment of the handling of clerical sex abuse in the Irish diocese of Ferns. The report revealed over 100 cases of child sex abuse in the small diocese, involving a number of clergymen, including Monsignor Micheál Ledwidth, the former head of the National Catholic seminary, Maynooth College. Among the facts revealed were the "inexplicable" failure of Bishop Donal Herlihy to exclude clearly unsuitable ...

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