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...

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

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

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...

(although not as bishops to the episcopacy), in contrast to the stricter clerical celibacy of Latin Church. Both Latin and Eastern Catholics may freely attend...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

historians. Pope Joan Antipope John XXIII Antipope Felix V History of clerical celibacy in the Christian Church This allegation is disputed by some modern...

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...

Protestants portrayed Catholic practices such as confession to priests, clerical celibacy, and requirements to fast and keep vows as burdensome and spiritually...

Austria. Bishop Iby is convinced the Catholic church should drop its celibacy requirement for priests. It should be up to priests to decide whether they...

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...