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Although the Torcaso decision dismissed enforcement of religious requirements for office as unconstitutional in the United States, antiquated provisions barring atheists from occupying political offices were not immediately stricken from state legislation. As a result, a number of lawsuits were initiated after 1961 to secure the right to hold ...
Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried. Clerical celibacy also requires abstention from deliberately indulging in sexual thoughts and behavior outside of marriage, because these impulses are regarded as sinful. [1]
A Christian church in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit this week after its pastor was charged with violating city ordinances when he opened up the sanctuary around the clock for homeless people and ...
Samuel C. Fessenden – U.S. Congressman, pastor; Washington Gladden – leading American Congregational church pastor leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio city council; Derek Jones – first Mayor of Gaborone, Botswana 1966–68
“We are unable to offer a path to separation from the United Methodist Church for local churches,” the office of United Methodist bishop Rev. David Graves, the newly appointed bishop for the ...
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[3] [4] [5] Some clergy have been allowed to retain their clerical status after violating their vows of celibacy, and even after secretly marrying women. [6] [7] [8] Prefect for the Congregation for Clergy Cardinal Beniamino Stella also acknowledged that child support and transfer have been two common ways for such clergy to maintain their ...
The city notified Avell on Nov. 3 2023, that people were not allowed to live there, granting the church 10 days to stop housing people, a zoning administrator wrote in a November 2023 memo.