How to Use priesthood in a Sentence

priesthood

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  • What is the influence of the priesthood in today's society?
  • To some members of the AI priesthood, that calls for a new approach.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • The Tabernacle was built, and, in the Book of Leviticus, the laws of the priesthood and Torah ethics are given.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 24 June 2019
  • My life is going to be very rich and full because of the priesthood.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • And what if the Roman Catholic Church were to do away with the all-male, celibate priesthood?
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2017
  • The church lifted its ban on Black men holding the priesthood in 1978.
    — Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Forty-one years of priesthood ... and this has happened?
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Saint Patrick had a vision, one that led him to study priesthood.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • As a boy, he was enraptured by the church and priesthood.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • These were, after all, the basis of the electrode caps worn by the cult priesthood.
    — David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, WIRED, 1 July 1996
  • Malone emphasized the importance of the priesthood to the life of the church.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
  • His father thought he was cut out for a quiet life in the priesthood.
    — Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to [Christ]!
    — Paul Schemm, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
  • In the church’s early days, under founder Joseph Smith, a few Black men were ordained to the priesthood.
    — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Melchizedek priesthood can be obtained when a man turns 18.
    — CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But Aymond asked the congregation not to judge the church or the priesthood by the actions of a few priests.
    — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The next year, the church defrocked Father Geoghan and removed him from the priesthood.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • The church celebrates the end of the priesthood/temple ban in a joyous and soulful gala.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Two priests have the answers on their podcast about priesthood.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Celibacy reveals the very essence of the Christian priesthood.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • More than 100 of the priests are dead, and many others are retired or have been dismissed from the priesthood or put on leave.
    — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Until 1978, the church had a ban on Black men in its lay priesthood that was rooted in the belief that black skin was a curse.
    — Brady McCombs, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • For him, the priesthood is about caring deeply for people who are hurting in any kind of way.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Brennan resolved to go to heaven, and the priesthood seemed like a sure way of getting there.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Randy Merrell walks to a priesthood meeting at his church.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Forced to choose, McLoughlin left the priesthood in 1948, making headlines across the country.
    — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2020
  • This piece asks the question—and explores the answer through the eyes of women who say they’re called to the priesthood, no matter the Church’s doctrine.
    — Fortune, 22 June 2021
  • So he was allowed to use his priesthood publicly again.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • These spectacles feed a misconception that debate is alien to science, and consensus emerges from some arcane priesthood in lab coats.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • The Italian-language version of the book was released this week and brought to public attention Pope Francis' reaffirmation of male-exclusive priesthood.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023

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