"optional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The modest resolution asked that a study be made with a view to considering optional celibacy as a possible element in the life of the Roman Catholic Church.
- The women's ordination movements and the priests who ask for optional celibacy will certainly not be muffled as a result of the papal tour.
- In addition he said the Imani Temple would permit "optional celibacy, which means our priests will be able to decide whether or not they want to marry."
- Because the Vatican continues to cauterize the feminine dimension by refusing women in the fullness of ministry or by granting optional celibacy, the church is suffering.
- Second, return to optional celibacy for priests.
- Conservatives and liberals alike should acknowledge that sexual secrecy is destroying the church, and one way to save it would be to make celibacy optional.
- The delegates want a revival of what they call "the biblical tradition of optional celibacy, which existed in the first 12 centuries of church life."
- They cited several surveys indicating that most American Catholics support the ordination of women and optional celibacy among priests.
- The movement stems from a letter sent in August by 163 priests in the Milwaukee diocese urging the nation's bishops to make celibacy optional.
- The group generally favors optional celibacy for diocesan priests, and not for priests in religious orders.
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