#priesthood

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ↗

— Giovannino Guareschi

#don-camillo #humour #italy #priesthood #catholicism

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#block #canon #church #emancipation #greatest

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#culture #done #foreign #glories #human

And I was very interested in the priesthood. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#interested #priesthood #very

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#child #children #church #father #himself

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #conditioned #convenient #form #himself