The fact is, that it is morally impossible for a secular priest to keep his vows of celibacy, except by a miracle of the grace of God.
The oblate who studies his book of rules, his only gospel, must have his mind filled with the idea of his superior holiness, not only over the poor sinful, secular priest, but over everyone else.
It is because I know them too well, that I have not dared to be a secular priest, a single day.
What is the difference between a Jesuit father, and a secular priest?
The matter is not mended, or the difficulty removed, by having the book written by a secular priest; it is so much the worse.
The Strasburg professor may succeed in imposing upon those who know not the difference between a secular priestand a Jesuit.
This was Doctor Carlos Bermudez Gonzalez de Castro, a secular priest, a native of Puebla, Mexico, and a prominent ecclesiastic at Nueva Espana.
The padre was a secular priest, the son of Don Sánchez de Molina, who for forty-eight years had been corregidor of Malagon.
Borghesi sought an education by entering the priesthood and was ordained a secular priest in Salzburg.
All this was devised and brought to light by the author, Francesco Borghesi of Anauni, a secular priest of Trent, A.
This complicated mechanism, which performs a multitude of functions, was designed by Father Francesco Borghesi, a secular priest in Venezia Tridentina.
There were two Augustinian Recollects, and one Franciscan Recollect, and a secular priest.
It is worthy of remark that the fathers of the Society had a private and special commissary, who was always a secular priest.
It is under the charge of a secular priest, and has a very small church, built of bamboo and thatched with straw.
Leaving the three men whom he brought with him as a guard, he in person going to the Franciscan convent, which was near by, to summon a confessor, met a secular priest on the way, who had left his house at the disturbance.
He was probably a secular priest, for in the following year the bishop was authorized by Propaganda to send out some religious.
Yet in some of its phases the religious life differs essentially from that of a secular priest.
In fact he did make this journey, accompanied by a secular priest, who, yielding to a thoughtless zeal, baptized a hundred savages without having sufficiently instructed and tested them.
Some records are still available of agreements to teach between the prior of a monastery and a secular priest.
The need for the instruction of the novices was reiterated by the General Benedictine Statutes of 1334, which provided that a secular priest was to be appointed to teach grammar when a monk was not available for the purpose.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secular priest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
