Priestly Celibacy Today - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Priestly Celibacy Today write by Thomas McGovern. This book was released on 1998. Priestly Celibacy Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains chapters on the developme nt of celibacy in the churches of the east and west, scriptu ral foundations and the theological arguments. Special atten tion is given to the spousal dimension of celibacy. '
Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest
Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest write by Fr. Carter Griffin. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The Church today demands a profound renewal of celibate priesthood and the fatherhood to which it is ordered.” Priestly celibacy, some say, is an outdated relic from another age. Others see it as a lonely way of life. But as Fr. Carter Griffin argues in Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, the ancient practice of celibacy, when lived well, helps a priest exercise his spiritual fatherhood joyfully and fruitfully. Along the way, Griffin explores: the question of optional celibacy some pitfalls of celibate paternity the selection and formation of candidates for celibate priesthood why biological fathers are also called to spiritual fatherhood the powerful impact of celibacy on the Church and the wider culture In a critical moment for the Catholic priesthood, Fr. Griffin brings light and hope with a new perspective on the Church’s perennial wisdom on celibacy.
Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy
Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy write by Christian Cochini. This book was released on 2002-04. Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fr Christian Cochini has made a thorough examination, based on years of extensive research, of the topic of clerical celibacy in the first seven centuries of the Church's history. ...." [from back cover]
Priestly Celibacy
Priestly Celibacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Priestly Celibacy write by Gary Selin. This book was released on 2016-03-11. Priestly Celibacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pope Francis has called mandatory priestly celibacy a "gift for the Church," but added "since it is not a dogma, the door is always open" to change. As this Church discipline continues to be debated, it is important for Catholics to delve into the theological and not merely pragmatic reasons behind its continuation. Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations, therefore, fills a critical gap in the current theological literature on this important topic of ecclesial ministry and life, and also helps to contribute to the advancement of the rather underdeveloped theology of priestly celibacy.
From the Depths of Our Hearts
From the Depths of Our Hearts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Depths of Our Hearts write by Pope Benedict XVI. This book was released on 2020-03-12. From the Depths of Our Hearts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The priesthood is going through a dark time", according to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. "Wounded by the revelation of so many scandals, disconcerted by the constant questioning of their consecrated celibacy, many priests are tempted by the thought of giving up and abandoning everything." In this book, the pope emeritus and the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments give their brother priests, and the whole Church, a message of hope. They honestly address the spiritual challenges faced by priests today, while pointing to deeper conversion to Jesus Christ as the key to faithful and fruitful priestly ministry and genuine reform. Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah "fraternally offer these reflections to the people of God and, of course, in a spirit of filial obedience, to Pope Francis", who has said, "I think that celibacy is a gift for the Church. . . . I don't agree with allowing optional celibacy, no." Responding to calls for refashioning the priesthood, including proposals from participants in the Amazonian Synod, two wise, spiritually astute pastors explain the importance of priestly celibacy for the good of the whole Church. Drawing on Vatican II, they present celibacy as not just "a mere precept of ecclesiastical law", but as a sharing in Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross and his identity as Bridegroom of the Church. of his collaboration with Benedict XVI in writing From the Depths of Our Hearts.
