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Ads by Google clerical celibacy anti clericalism Clerical fiction clerical fascism clerical marriages clerical tonsure      Sample Chapter for Jaffe, R.: Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism. Clerics were obliged to observe the precept that prohibited sexual relations for all ordained clerics. The Japanese Buddhist clergy are unique among Buddhist clerics in that the vast majority are married, but they continue to undergo clerical ordination and are considered members of the sangha ( sogya) by both the Buddhist establishment and parishioners alike. Although these clerics held radically different positions from Tanaka with regard to clerical marriage, they shared his focus on creating a Buddhist discourse on the family that melded Protestant-style valorization of the conjugal family, Confucian virtues emphasized in such didactic texts as Onna daigaku by Kaibara Ekken, and Buddhist ethics. http://www.pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s7171.html      Ordination of Married Men in the Eastern Church The marriage of clerics was practiced from the days of the primitive church. Marriage is allowed for deacons and priests but only before ordination. His hypothesis was used by the Jesuit, Christian Cochini (1981) and the Ukrainian Catholic priest, Roman Cholij, (1989) in their books supporting the thesis that celibacy for unmarried clerics and continence for married clerics was purportedly obligatory in the Church from earliest days. http://www.byzantines.net/epiphany/ordination.htm      [No title] By no means a stable institution, spiritual marriage stands revealed in this book as a construct shifting in relation to early Christian, secular roman and germanic, and then high and later medieval social realities, and changing in response to perpetually changing ideologies of marriage and clerical celibacy. Weston, 'Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock', Bryn Mawr Medieval Review 9410 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmmr/bmmr-9410-weston-spiritual @@@@94.10.1, Elliott, Spiritual Marriage Dyan Elliott, *Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock*. Further complicating discussion of marriage, and especially of women's autonomy within marriage, Elliott argues, is the movement of the church from periphery to center, and a concomitant change in its earlier egalitarian rhetoric. http://www.infomotions.com/serials/bmmr/bmmr-9410-weston-spiritual.txt      The reasons for celibacy The-Tidings.com Clerical marriage and concubinage were prevalent, and church lands and properties were being lost through inheritance to the children of clergy. Paul also commended celibacy over marriage, but only because he believed that the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ were imminent (1 Corinthians 7:29-31). It was no surprise, therefore, when Pope Gregory VII (1073-85), who had himself been a monk, prohibited clerical marriages and dissolved those that already existed. http://www.the-tidings.com/2002/0913/essays.htm      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bigamy (In Canon Law) There is, therefore, no real bigamy (a) if either or both marriages are invalid, (b) if either or both have not been consummated, (c) if either or both women have not been virgins, (d) if one of the two ceremonies was a valid, consummated marriage, and the other a mere betrothal followed by carnal union. Similar bigamy is twofold: (1) When a religious who has been solemnly professed in a religious order approved by the Church marries a virgin and carnally knows her as such. It is certain, however, that religious, not in Sacred orders, with simple vows, who contract and consummate marriage with a virgin or with a renegade nun who has broken her solemn vows, is neither a bigamist nor irregular. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02561a.htm      HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH* Clerical marriages are probably the most happy as a rule, and have given birth to a larger number of useful and distinguished men and women than those of any other class of society. He expressly classes the prohibition of marriage (including its consequences) among the doctrines of demons or evil spirits that control the heathen religions, and among the signs of the apostacy of the latter days. The ancient church, on the contrary, held to the divine institution of property and marriage, and was content to recommend the voluntary renunciation of these intrinsically lawful pleasures to the few elect, as means of attaining Christian perfection. http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/2_ch09.htm      Church Registers in Norway There were nine sections in the new form: Births, stillborn, confirmations, marriages, deaths, immigration, emigration, new members of the State Church, and ceased members of the State Church. Dissenters should be registered on the last pages with their births, deaths, and marriages; as well as additional notes on which community they belonged to, and who had given the information. If it was a different local parish, but in the same parish district, it was not necessary with a full recording in the church register of the home local parish, but a short summary and reference to the church register in the local parish where the actual event took place. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/churchregister.htm      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celibacy of the Clergy The more holy and exalted we represent the state of marriage to be, the more we justify the married priest in giving the first place in his thoughts to his wife and family and only the second to his work. But the account of Socrates at the same time shows that marriage on the part of those who were already bishops or priests was not contemplated; in fact, that it was assumed to be contrary to the tradition of the Church. Turning now to the Oriental Churches in communion with the Holy See, we may note that as a general principle married clerics are not ineligible for the subdiaconate, diaconate, and priesthood. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03481a.htm      Seven Ecumenical Councils - Nicene & Post-Nicene, Series 2 - Writing of the Early Church Fathers on SearchGodsWord.org This argument ex silentio is evidently insufficient to prove that the anecdote about Paphnutius must be rejected as false, seeing that it is in perfect harmony with the practice of the ancient Church, and especially of the Greek Church, on the subject of clerical marriages. Therefore, whilst the Latin Church exacted of those presenting themselves for ordination, even as subdeacons, that they should not continue to live with their wives if they were married, the Greek Church gave no such prohibition; but if the wife of an ordained clergyman died, the Greek Church allowed no second marriage. The Greek Church did not, however, adopt this rigour in reference to priests, deacons, and subdeacons, but by degrees it came to be required of bishops and of the higher order of clergy in general, that they should live in celibacy. http://spanish.searchgodsword.org/his/ad/ecf/pos/sevenecumenicalcouncils/view.cgi?file=npnf2-14-26.htm      SISTER FIDELMA MYSTERIES - FIDELMA'S WORLD Unlike the Roman Church, the Irish Church did not have a system of "confessors" where "sins" had to be confessed to clerics who then had the authority to absolve those sins in Christ's name. While there were always ascetics in the Churches who sublimated physical love in a dedication to the deity, it was not until the Council of Nicea in AD 325 that clerical marriages were condemned but not banned in the Western Church. By the fifth century, Rome had forbidden its clerics from the rank of abbot and bishop to sleep with their wives and, shortly after, even to marry at all. http://www.sisterfidelma.com/fidelma.html      A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes Clerical immorality: it had been, from very early times indeed, the rule in the Latin church (though not in the East) that no married man could receive Holy Orders, and that no man in Holy Orders could marry, i.e., no subdeacon, deacon, priest. The two most flagrant, universally visible evils that afflicted religious life as these new-style popes began their great task were simony and clerical immorality. And it had come to be, by long practice, a matter of course that it was the king who actually chose, with finality, who should be bishop or abbot--and, by long abuse, how much the cleric should pay for the favour. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/coun10.html      Priests May Marry – Part 2 Well, the reason for prohibiting clerical marriage, i.e., 'to spread purity', cannot validly ground any prohibition, as the sexual act cannot possibly render a validly married priest 'impure' and therefore 'polluted' and unfit to officiate at the altar. If fact, if I remember correctly, it was commonly believed in the latin church before that time that the married clergy of the east were sinners, whore mongers etc. The saintly pope ruled in favour of clerical marriage in the east, to the horror of many latin catholics. In view of all of the above, it can only be said with truth and justice that the 'triumph' of compulsory clerical celibacy in the latin church for the last 400 years is the result of a fundamental and radical failure in its spirituality. http://www.trosch.org/the/married2.html      [No title] After a man slept with his wife, he may not enter a church until he had purged himself by penance and washing, for his will remains evil. Writing to St Augustine in England: "Sexual desire is absolutely impossible without fault" - needs penance. 1930: In Casti connubi (on Christian Marriage - its excellence - the Pauline privilege) contrary to tradition, says that sex can be good and holy in itself! http://members.lycos.co.uk/jloughnan/bbosj2.htm      Introduction, Celebacy However, it could be argued that he connected sexuality and grace by building "a holiness pyramid" with sex as its base: sex with Temple prostitutes is unholy; the marriage of Christians is holy; virginity and celibacy are holiest. Therefore, the practice of taking Nazarite vows was not linked to marriage in any way. Although we know that Nazarites existed at the time of Jesus (Matthew 15:5; Mark 7:11), there is no evidence that they were either celibate or sexually inactive and no evidence that celibacy was mandated for Nazarites. http://www.ejhs.org/volume2/walsh/walsh1.htm      The Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood  --  John MacArthur Marriage is far worse to them than sexual sin, because it threatens the church's power and property. It existed in some other pagan religions; that is to say not being married, being single for devotion to your deity. This practice began to change in the 12th century when at the Lateran Councils the church declared all clerical marriages invalid and prohibited clerical concubinage." So you could have a sex mistress for a while, and then they prohibited it. http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/catholicscandal.htm      TABLE OF CONTENTS With the diminution of clerical goods went a decline in the independence of the clergy and a corresponding increase in the authority of territorial Princes ; and it was by the prospect of reducing his Bishops and priests to subjection that sovereigns like Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg were induced to adopt the Lutheran cause. The changes introduced during the ecclesiastical visitations of Lutheran Germany in 1526-7 were at least as much concessions to secular dislike of clerical privilege as to religious antipathy to Catholic doctrine. The confiscation of monastic property enriched parish churches and schools, and in Hesse facilitated the foundation of the University of Marburg, but it also swelled the State exchequer ; and the marriage of priests tended to destroy their privileges as a caste and merge them in the mass of their fellow-citizens. http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh206.html      [No title] Marriage, no matter what your religious belief, is a sacred act. I said to them, `I am willing to join with you in reaffirming the definition of marriage, tho I am a gay man. All I ask in return is that you remove the `meanness, prejudice, and hatred' surrounding this issue.' I went further. Accordingly, tho I am a gay man in a 13-year relationship, I was fully prepared to reach out to my colleagues in reaffirming the institution of marriage as we know and understand it. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/scotts/bulgarians/doma/debate_jul12.txt      SBC - The Ecumenical Councils of the Roman Catholic Church It reformed discipline and condemned the heresies of: 1) ALBIGENSIANISM (NEO-MANICHEANISM), which opposed marriage and all sacraments and belief in the resurrection of the body; 2) WALDENSIANISM (anti-clerical heresy), which claimed that laymen living an apostolic life could forgive sins, while a priest in the state of sin could not absolve. It was decided that once ordained, a priest may not marry in either Latin or Eastern Rites. CERULARIUS (about 200 years later) closed the churches of the Latins in Constantinople, had the Blessed Sacrament cast out and trodden underfoot as invalid, and persisted in refusing to see the three delegates sent by Pope Leo IX (1049 - 1054). http://www.catholicism.org/pages/ecumenic.htm      The Benedictine Network: Source Document I (Addendum) Some have noted that one mark of the Church of Rome's cultural identity is to cover-up its own failings under the guise that revelation of errors will produce scandel among the Faithful. Chief reason for maintaining celibacy discipline: a celibate priest owed total allegiance not to wife and children but to the institution. Dissolved marriages between Christians and non-Christians against a 200 year decision by the Holy Office that the pope could not do this (Petrine Privilege) http://www.whiterobedmonks.org/netsor1a.html      Muslim Rishte - MuslimRishte.comThe Leading Matrimonial website for Muslim Community And marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what has already happened (of that nature) in the past. It is very important for every Muslim that he knows what are the relationship that is prohibited in Islam for Marriage Muslim Rishte enlightens the prohibited Marriage Partners in Islam. http://www.muslimrishte.com/ProhibitedPartners.asp      OSCN Found Document:Endorsement and Return of Marriage License Provided that all marriages solemnized among the society called Friends, or Quakers, the spiritual assembly of the Baha'Is, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in the form heretofore practiced and in use in their meetings shall be good and valid. Such person shall be chosen by the society, church or assembly for this purpose. One person chosen by such society, church or assembly shall be responsible for completing the certification of marriage pursuant to this title in the same manner as a minister or other person authorized to perform marriages. http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeID=71794      Tamil matrimonial - free matrimonials - Shaadi.com India I am 28, Hindu: Brahmin, Clerical Official, from India I am 26, Hindu: Iyer Brahmin, Not working, from India I am 26, Hindu: Iyer, Not working, from India http://www.shaadi.com/partner_search/matrimonial_search/searchresults.php?gender=Female&maritalstatusarray[0]=Divorced&maritalstatusarray[1]=Widowed&maritalstatusarray[2]=Separated&mothertongue=Tamil      The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida Many Americans tend to believe casually that, from the time of Christ, marriages in an unbroken line have been performed by religious authorities. For religious reasons they left England and traveled first to Holland. This was largely because the first Pilgrims opposed the English practice of clerical marriages as unscriptural. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040413/NEWS/404130315/1037/EDIT04      Institute for Islamic Studies - Publications - Basic features of Islamic criminal law The Sharia covers the whole spectrum of Islamic jurisprudence: laws regulating religious practice (the daily ritual prayers, fasting in Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca, the ceremonies at religious feast days, and more), marriage, family and inheritance law, property laws, the criminal code and laws covering religious foundations. The relevant legal texts have been interpreted by renowned theologians, among whom the lawyers of the early centuries of Islam are regarded as particularly authoritative. Modern jurisprudence in Muslim countries tends to be a composite of Koranic commandments, elements of Islamic traditions, customary law, vestiges of pre-Islamic Persian or Roman codes and elements of European legal provisions let over from the colonial period. http://www.islaminstitut.de/english/publications/sharia.htm      Biographical sources for Anglican clergy Crockford’s Clerical Directory: a directory of the clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Ireland, (London, 1858-). It should, however, be noted that diocesan boundaries have been subject to many changes, especially at the Reformation and during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, Clerical directory http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/holdings/Guides/clergyman.html      Registration Service Introduction This ceremony is for any married couple that wish to celebrate renewing their marriage vows in a unique and personal ceremony. It is a highly personal tribute created by the executor or family in consultation with a professional Celebrant. Cornwall County Council has licensed over 70 approved venues ranging from town and country hotels, stately homes, a napoleonic fort, castles, a 16th century farmhouse, and even a tin mine. http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/registration/about.htm      A Brief History of Celibacy - FutureChurch Ulrich, a holy bishop, argued from scripture and common sense that the only way to purify the church from the worst excesses of celibacy was to permit priests to marry. Fact: Priests and even popes still continued to marry and have children for several hundred years after that date. Fact: A 1983 survey of Protestant churches shows a surplus of clergy; the Catholic church alone has a shortage. http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/history.htm      [No title] overdo scheduler triangles lightly dear nd absurd clerical attempted. Continue directly religion Med told travellers concept names Twofold triangles lightly nd ductile pipeline addition clerical cheating dusky Within. http://johlan.trejd.nu/Nobel      Reclaiming Reformation Convictions Married to please his father, who liked the idea of grandchildren; to spite the pope, who forbade clerical marriages; and to witness to his convictions before he was martyred. God can make nothing out of him...Affliction is the best book in my library. Luther dubbed her "the morning star of Wittenberg," as her day began at 4:00. http://www.grace4u.org/Topical/luther.htm      theIndependent.com News: Creech convicted, defrocked 11/18/99 Creech asked the four-woman, nine-man panel to refuse to return a verdict, sending a message to church leaders who instituted the ban on same-sex marriages. The United Methodist Church stripped Jimmy Creech of his clerical credentials Wednesday after convicting him of violating church laws forbidding homosexual marriages. Jimmy Creech pauses while speaking during a press conference after being found guilty of violating the "order and discipline" of the United Methodist Church for performing a same-sex union ceremony. http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111899/new_defrocked18.html      February 2001 Newsletter Additions and corrections to this list are not only welcome, but requested. [Randolph County had a courthouse fire in 1897, but the birth, death, marriage, wills, deeds, etc., were in a vault and saved. There are other quirks, such as the fact that many people who died in state institutions, whether tuberculosis sanitariums, hospitals or prisons, did not have their deaths recorded by the county or the state. http://www.wvculture.org/history/0201news.html      Number of the Beast 666 Here's a man that sets himself up as equal with God and dares tamper with God's law. Ency., VIII, p 426), and was so callous toward God's laws concerning marriage, that he declared valid the fourth marriage of Leo VI, Greek Emperor (Cath. He changes the calandar, he changes the ten commandments, he changes the Lord's supper, he changes baptism, he changes marriage etc. But God has said, http://www.4thewordofgod.com/chapter13.htm      Sources [ S229 ] Marriage Records of Frelsberg, Tx Catholic Church Marriage Records, Book Seven, Mar. 1900 to Oct. 1903, Howell County, Missouri I am told by Juanita McConathy of Whitney TX. http://www.erikson.us/Ged2Html-F/sources.html      Winchcombe This may not be due to the War: it may simply mean that the vicar - an Independent minister named Carnshew Helme, who described himself as "preacher of the gospel of this place" - had no enthusiasm for such routine clerical duties as keeping an accurate record of births, marriages and deaths' Please be imaginative when searching for 16th and early 17th marriages - some names were preceded by 'a' or 'ap', especially if of Welsh origin and indeed I would suggest you take a look at the letter 'U' for Unknown. I have not checked these against the originals, and therefore it is doubly important that, should you find an entry of interest, you must check the original Parish Registers, which are held at Gloucestershire Record Office. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/winchcombe/phillmar.html      Witch Weddings Rosemary Kooiman, of Lanham MD, applied to Fairfax County Circuit Court for permission to officiate at marriages in her pagan religion - Wicca. Witch denied license to perform weddings at pagan ceremonies http://www.holysmoke.org/wicca/wicca_wedding.htm      Sex Scandal in Roman Catholic Church Due to Ignoring Scriptures By GREGORY J. RUMMO Mandatory celibacy came into being at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 when Pope Innocent the Second pronounced all clerical marriages invalid and the children of such marriages bastards. http://www.geocities.com/gregoryjrummo/Rome.htm      NEVADA REVISED STATUTES: CHAPTER 122 The minister whom he temporarily replaces shall provide him with a written authorization which states the period during which it is effective.  In the solemnization of marriage, no particular form is required except that the parties shall declare, in the presence of the justice, judge, minister, justice of the peace, commissioner of civil marriages or deputy commissioner of civil marriages, and the attending witness, that they take each other as husband and wife.  A county clerk may authorize a licensed or ordained minister whose congregation is in another state to perform marriages in the county if the county clerk satisfies himself that the minister is in good standing with his denomination or church. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-122.html      Russia - Chapter IV Besides this, he must arrange the matter before the young man takes orders, because, by the rules of the Church, the marriage cannot take place after the ceremony of ordination. The peasants have gathered in their harvest, and can give of their abundance. When the affair is arranged before the charge becomes vacant, the old priest can die with the pleasant consciousness that his family is provided for." http://www.worldwideschool.com/library/books/hst/russian/Russia/chap5.html      Pope Urban II Biography At the outset he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful antipope Clement III in Rome; but a series of well-attended synods held in Rome, Amalfi, Benevento, and Troia supported him in renewed declarations against simony, lay investiture, and clerical marriages, and a continued opposition to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. In accordance with this last policy, the marriage of the countess Matilda of Tuscany with Guelph of Bavaria was promoted, Prince Conrad was helped in his rebellion against his father and crowned King of the Romans at Milan in 1093, and the empress (Adelaide or Praxedes) encouraged in her charges against her husband. He frankly took up the policy of his great predecessor, but while pursuing it with equal determination showed greater flexibility and diplomatic finesse. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Urban_II_Pope.html      NUNEATON It was the site of the Priory of St.Mary the Virgin, and the ruins remain. St.Mary Christenings: 1879-1965 Marriages: 1878-1970 Burials: 1878-1964 Banns 1775-1857. The book should be read by anyone interested in the area. http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/nuneaton.html      SF mayor moves to grant marriage licenses to gay couples In addition to the language contained in its family code, California is one of 38 states with specific laws barring marriage between people of the same sex. State law explicitly defines marriage as an act between a man and a woman, a prerequisite Newsom considers "codified discrimination," said Peter Ragone, Newsom's spokesman. In 2000, 61 percent of voters approved a ballot measure that prohibits California from granting marital rights to same-sex couples who are legally married in another state. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/10/state2025EST0139.DTL      Tankersley History Before the conquest [of William the Conqueror who conquered England on October 14, 1066] clerical marriages were common and many children of such unions were names Priest, Deacon, Rector and Vicar after the calling of their father. It is not all that long afterwards, in 1708, that Richard and George TANKERSLEY, sons of Rueben TANKERSLEY and his wife Sarah Ann Beverly, landed in Virginia and settled at Port Royal, King George County, Virginia. It is likely that they came from an influential and still wealthy family, for they acquired large estates, partly by Crown Grant, and later by marriage and purchase. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/5193/      National Statistic Office Region 7 Insofar as applicable, Rule 6 shall be observed also by the CG and D/CR. However, with regard to the change of first name or nickname in the birth certificate, the privilege shall be availed of only once subject to Rule 12 hereunder. The PRCR shall also collect the filing fee from the migrant petitioner, which shall be in the form of postal money order or other form of payment which shall be payable to and transmitted to the RKCR, together with the petition and supporting documents. http://www.cvis.net.ph/nso7/mainwhatRA9048.htm      Dundee City Council Scotland Services - Registration of Births, Deaths & Marriages The registration staff also deal with changes of name, marriages abroad, re-registration of births and declarations of paternity. Local Authorities in Scotland have a statutory duty to provide a service for the registration of births, still-births, deaths and marriages in each of their registration districts. Select the topic that interests you to find out more: http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/registrars/main.htm      Manell Family Tree and Branches - aqwn20 - Generated by Ancestral Quest Found none with Brita Larsdotter, but there is one to a Margita Larsdotter from Sör Mockfjärd. That marriage date was 26 Dec 1740. MARRIAGE: Film# 206522 Gagnef E:2 1733 (#11 from the end) Clerical Survey: Gagnef AI:1 1738-1757 SörBiörka #8 p. http://gmanell.tripod.com/manell/aqwn20.htm      Pope Victor II In June 1055 Victor met the emperor at Florence, and held a council, which anew condemned clerical marriages, simony, and the alienation of the property of the church. His nomination to the Papacy by Henry at Mainz, in September 1054, was made at the instance of a Roman deputation headed by Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII, whose policy doubtless was to detach from the imperial interest one of its ablest supporters. http://www.fact-index.com/p/po/pope_victor_ii.html      Volunteers for research extracts from the birth, marriage, and death records for 1860-1920 http://www.longstrom.com/volunteers_for_research.htm

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