Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried. Clerical celibacy also requires abstention...

Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood in the Latin...

Restoration. In Japan, celibacy was an ideal among Buddhist clerics for hundreds of years. But violations of clerical celibacy were so common for so long...

Christian communities. The Latin Catholic Church as a rule requires clerical celibacy for the priesthood since the Gregorian Reform in the late 11th century...

beginnings, the idea of clerical celibacy has been contested in canon courts, in theology, and in religious practices. Celibacy for Roman Catholic priests...

(although not as bishops to the episcopacy), in contrast to the stricter clerical celibacy of Latin Church. Additionally, Eastern Catholics who seek marriage...

into the Catholic priesthood, a practice known as clerical celibacy. In modern parlance, celibacy has come to be associated with the very specific practice...

championship of compulsory celibacy among the clergy and his attack on simony. Gregory VII did not introduce the celibacy of the priesthood into the church...

celibacy and incidents of child abuse by Catholic clergy. A 2005 article in the conservative Irish weekly the Western People proposed that clerical celibacy...

that celibacy was the most significant deterrent keeping men from entering the priesthood in the Latin Church (although highly praised, celibacy is not...

the rights of the clerical state. It also terminates all obligations of the clerical state, except for the obligation of celibacy. Dispensation from...

10, 2009, at the end of his tenure as archbishop, Egan stated that clerical celibacy in the Latin Church could be open to discussion. He added, "I think...

distinction drawn between chastity and celibacy. Celibacy is the state of not being married, so a promise of celibacy is a promise not to enter into marriage...

of antecryst.") The third conclusion asserts that the practice of clerical celibacy has encouraged sodomy among the clergy. Churchmen need purgation or...

the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth". Regarding clerical celibacy, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: All the ordained ministers...

O'Brien said he was open to the possibility of removing the requirement of celibacy in the priesthood. In May 2007 O'Brien urged Roman Catholics to reject...

focused, rather than one of deprivation or severe asceticism. However, celibacy is a fundamental part of this form of monastic discipline. Monasticism...

he changed doctrine or discipline in areas such as the Eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of images in places of worship, and the veneration of saints...

first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass, and the imposition of compulsory English in church services...

Clerical celibacy was reinforced through the prohibition of clerical marriage; ecclesiastical courts were granted exclusive jurisdiction over clerics...

the offspring of ordained Catholic priests who have taken a vow of clerical celibacy. The children are a "result of affairs involving priests and laywomen...

with their wives. Despite consistently upholding the doctrine of clerical celibacy, over the following centuries the Church experienced many difficulties...

Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Helen Parish (2016). Clerical Celibacy in the West: C.1100-1700. Taylor and Francis. pp. 49–51. ISBN 9781317165163...

sexuality Buddhism and Hinduism Tantric sex Christian demonology Clerical celibacy Buddhist monasticism Catholic Church Hindu monasticism Jain monasticism...

Catholic Churches and the Anglican ordinariate), while maintaining clerical celibacy as normative. On 22 March 2019, Schönborn revealed that he was suffering...

said that "even though celibacy is part of Catholic history and culture, the Church could review this question, because celibacy is not a dogma but a disciplinary...

the Doctrine of the Faith, the curial body responsible for dealing with clerical sexual abuse cases on minors around the world. Scicluna was born to Maltese...

the author of six books about Catholicism, clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy. Born in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, Sipe was...

Paap (transl. sin) is a 2003 Indian crime thriller film, directed by Pooja Bhatt in her directorial debut, and features John Abraham, Udita Goswami, Gulshan...

liturgy being celebrated. Clerical celibacy is optional. It allows its priests to marry, rejecting mandatory clerical celibacy while committing to marital...