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Example sentences for: priesthood

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It attributes the plummet in the number of men entering the priesthood to pedophilia scandals, disillusionment with celibacy, and "the increasingly secular nature of American life."
For John Paul II, as for Paul VI, the male monopoly on priesthood is required by "theological anthropology."
Also, legal language endures to “unite the priesthood,’ that the “discipline [may] not be made common among the vulgar.
Suggesting, as it did, the remote look of both the unworldly priesthood and the potent monastic orders, black garb was often the anti-fashion choice of dandies and intellectuals, of Hamlet the anxious prince, Byron the smoldering poet, and Baudelaire the austere, afflicted critic.
But who can resist a smirk when a female network broadcaster observes that with respect to celibacy in the priesthood, “the pontiff remains firm.”