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Gay UK. com reports that the Scottish Episcopal Church said today it saw nothing wrong in ordaining actively gay priests and admitted it had blessed gay unions.

03/23/2005 2005

I requested the main Chinese ordaining bhikshus to organize an international sangha meeting, but they were unable to do this.

A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Four: Day Three and Final Comments by His Holiness 2007

Timothy and Titus, as superintendents or overseers (so bishop subsequently meant), were to exercise the same power in ordaining elders at Ephesus which the apostle had exercised in his general supervision of all the Gentile churches.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Two things he must have an eye to in ordaining ministers: -- Their fidelity or integrity ( "Commit them to faithful men, who will sincerely aim at the glory of God, the honour of Christ, the welfare of souls, and the advancement of the kingdom of the Redeemer among men"), and also their ministerial ability.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Now, readers are "ordaining" -- or disdaining -- their own variations from Scientology Barbie to Ann Coulter Barbie.

Religion News: Religious News and Headlines 2010

Now, readers are "ordaining" -- or disdaining -- their own variations from Scientology Barbie to Ann Coulter Barbie.

Religion News: Religious News and Headlines 2010

As more Catholics become accustomed to the idea of ordaining women, the Church will need to adjust itself to accommodate its followers, if it wants to keep those followers.

Debate Over Ordaining Women in the Catholic Church Heats Up « Gender Across Borders 2009

Now there is some new talk of allowing priests to marry, even the occasional radical suggestion that the notion of ordaining women might be revisited.

Patent Leather, Impure Thoughts 2007

In this sense of the word, God has prepared himself from all eternity by predestination, preconceiving the idea of ordaining some to eternal life.

Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

God had assured David of the continuance of his family, which is called his ordaining a lamp for his anointed; and this cannot but appear a great thing, now that we have read of the utter extirpation of so many royal families, one after another.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721