celibacy

How To Use celibacy In A Sentence

• As if there is any alternative to "institutionalised" celibacy in a religious institution besides married and/or unchaste priests. . . The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
• Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy.
• My main point, as some people have brought up, is that this is not a "pedophile crisis" it's not an "ephebophile crisis" it's not a "gay crisis"...it's a crisis with priests breaking celibacy in general. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
• Such unintentional romances signal the "unnaturalness" of celibacy, for the priest cannot resist the call of love and desire once exposed to the right woman. The Little Professor:
• His attachment to the vow of celibacy takes overriding precedence over everything else, including the public weal.
• If you are struggling with celibacy like this, maybe active ministry isn't where you should be?
• As with the women, however, the fear of becoming reinfected and compromising their health as well as the fear of infecting others were commonly cited explanations for celibacy.
• Gregory VII did more than any previous Pope to enforce clerical celibacy.
• So it was a husband's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy.
• One might say that celibacy has become the last sexual perversion in America.