Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winter and Spring 1964: Bills that would have repealed the act authorizing the underpasses' construction or delayed construction are defeated. Opponents vow to continue fight...
...Celibacy is possible; no serious psychologist pretends otherwise," states Hermand. Having himself entered the seminary at 13, Hermand makes the point that many candidates for the priesthood take the vow of chastity while their manhood is still dormant...
...received a hundred in one week. Who wrote most? Country priests-those men who live the loneliest of lonely lives. They understood my book; they encouraged me." Then, with an almost apologetic smile. Hermand opened a briefcase and took out a piece of paper, his official release from holy vows. "I am completely free," said Hermand, "except from the vow of chastity." On Catholicism's theory of once-a-priest-always-a-priest, Hermand must even now remain celibate or suffer excommunication...
From the first, Zwingli found celibacy difficult. In 1515, nine years after his ordination, he took a private vow of chastity-which he kept for only a year and a day. But in the casual atmosphere of the Swiss Church, Zwingli's sin was no bar to advancement, and in 1519 the canons of Zurich Minster appointed him preacher of the cathedral; his chief rival for the post was a German priest who admitted to fathering six children...
...Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, 42, is married and has two children. He is the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take holy orders without a vow of celibacy...