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Definition of worker priest in English: worker priestnoun A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest who engages part-time in ordinary secular work. Example sentencesExamples - But Pope Pius XII stopped the worker priest movement, and Pope John Paul II closed the base communities.
- After the war, Goss attached himself to a group of worker priests in an industrial section of Paris.
- Some argued that the spiritual lives and sacramental function of worker priests suffered because of their political engagements.
- There are other ‘unspoken’ trade-offs with a worker priest arrangement in a mission.
- The pope thought that the worker priest was no longer a spiritual person and ordered it to stop.
- It is clear that the aspirations of the first worker priests were not realised, and that a great gulf remains between the world of work and the priest's calling as presently understood.
- Thus the worker priests had to be crushed - by Pope Pius XII.
- He was a worker priest who, like Tom Dooley, had to die before we could celebrate the totality of his humanness.
- Such courses were common 60 years ago when the nation had hundreds of worker priests, whose mission was to help laborers.
- As well with the worker priests as in the Liberation Theology this practice has a clear political accent.
Definition of worker priest in US English: worker priestnounˈwərkər prēst A Roman Catholic priest, especially in postwar France, or an Anglican priest who engages part-time in ordinary secular work. Example sentencesExamples - He was a worker priest who, like Tom Dooley, had to die before we could celebrate the totality of his humanness.
- There are other ‘unspoken’ trade-offs with a worker priest arrangement in a mission.
- After the war, Goss attached himself to a group of worker priests in an industrial section of Paris.
- Such courses were common 60 years ago when the nation had hundreds of worker priests, whose mission was to help laborers.
- But Pope Pius XII stopped the worker priest movement, and Pope John Paul II closed the base communities.
- Some argued that the spiritual lives and sacramental function of worker priests suffered because of their political engagements.
- As well with the worker priests as in the Liberation Theology this practice has a clear political accent.
- It is clear that the aspirations of the first worker priests were not realised, and that a great gulf remains between the world of work and the priest's calling as presently understood.
- Thus the worker priests had to be crushed - by Pope Pius XII.
- The pope thought that the worker priest was no longer a spiritual person and ordered it to stop.
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