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The decision to ordain me to the priesthood was made because they needed a priest for West Point.
The next hurricane will follow the path that the forces of nature ordain for it regardless of what we do or don't do.
And, of course, there were those who said they would split away from the church when they decided to ordain women.
He was often at odds with the more liberal wing of the church, having opposed the decision to ordain women bishops.
Proponents argued that no presbytery would be forced to ordain gays, that it was a local option.
Over the last ten years I think they've been very well received in dioceses that have started to ordain women to the priesthood.
It belongs to the Cardinal Dean to ordain the elected Roman Pontiff a Bishop, if he is not already ordained.
And no religious denomination should be forced to ordain gays or women as priests, right?
Until 1978 the Church of latter-day saints would not ordain men of African descent into the priesthood.
If the state makes a law that the church has to ordain women and a church does not observe the law, it can be sued.
Among other things, Weiss had the beautiful chutzpah to ordain Orthodox women.
For instance, if there were people you had denied ordination, have they taken you to the courts to force you to ordain them?
It includes letters testimonial, notices of intention to ordain, letters dimissory, certificates of baptism, presentations, resignations, and subscriptions, among others.
Stephen Jung: It's because the law did not require the church to ordain women.
He may so ordain that His Divinity as Love may be manifest in the flesh and be among us as God incarnate.
And ordain for us that which is good, in this life and in the Hereafter: for we have turned unto Thee.
While only a few dioceses ordain women to the priesthood, there are more that ordain women to the diaconate.
I hereby ordain that everything established with the present Motu Proprio shall have full and lasting value, anything to the contrary notwithstanding, even though it may be deserving of special mention.
In 1784, when there was a shortage of ordained ministers in America after the Revolution, the Bishop of London refused to ordain a Methodist for the United States.
Faure said he only reluctantly become a bishop in case Williamson died in an accident, which would leave the group without the means to ordain priests.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Did not the providence of the world ordain that not a few should go unmarried?
They were forbidden to ordain their own priests or practise their own peculiar customs.
We have learned that what was actually intended at this time was, not to ordain, but only to induct our schoolmasters.
My heart submitted to whatever it should please God to ordain.
She no longer had any question for that which he chose to ordain.
Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain to the condemnation.
Such fearful turmoil of men and horses did Jove on that day ordain round the body of Patroclus.
Since baptism is the root of ministry I suggest that we not ordain anyone for a while, maybe 100 years, until ordination loses its current content.
But if, without carrying him into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
It also automatically excommunicates heretics, schismatics, priests who break the seal of confession, and bishops who ordain other bishops without Vatican permission.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
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