Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintained that if our clergy must marry they should marry money or be men of private means. The funds of the church are for pastoral, work. They will never suffice to maintain the social position women expect, or for the expensive education of our children. The celibacy of the priesthood is a matter of discipline, not of doctrine or theology...
Committee of Cardinals. Civiltà Cattolica's article gave new impetus to Vatican rumors that the Pope is planning an important realignment and expansion of the Holy See's diplomatic machinery. Having spent almost his entire priesthood in the diplomatic service (nine years of it as Secretary of State), Pius XII now serves as his own Secretary of State and is reputed to have accomplished some of the most skillful diplomatic egg-walking of modern times. But before long, Vatican observers report, the Pope may turn the job of directing the enlarged diplomatic service over to a committee...
...Roman Catholic schoolboy in Burgundy, Roger Buliard dreamed of an adventurous life in the service of Christ. The dream became a dedication. Roger Buliard entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness...
...they originated before the Reformation, or with it, like the Anabaptists. They were small, fervent groups of men & women who tried seriously to return to the simplicity of primitive Christianity. They drew a sharp line between the church and the world, emphasized the mystical, unmediated approach to God, the "priesthood of all believers" and the strict separation of church & state. Sometimes, as with the Baptists and Quakers, the sects themselves surged to sudden brief popularity. But in Europe, their influence was greatest in liberalizing the Protestant state churches on whose sufferance they lived...
Caffé avoids the serious aspects of priesthood: "I only like to paint a priest when he is a human being-as when he is pedaling along with his flowing black gown or wrapped in wonder at the sight of a high-flying kite." He thinks the paintings have a nostalgic appeal: "The public looking at my paintings finds a little thread of a tale of the past. Fashions change, everything changes, but the priest always has the same appearance and represents an unchangeable personality...