#priests

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#catholics #everyone #i #like #priests

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops. ↗

— Hans Kung

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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

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In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

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