1. Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy.

2. He took a vow of chastity and celibacy.

3. Why not drop the discipline of mandatory celibacy?

4. Celibacy is perfectly acceptable, although rare.

5. Had he not taken a vow of celibacy?

6. Celibacy, or Bramacharya, is encountered frequently in Hindu lore and life.

7. The celibacy that is accepted in the New Testament is one that comes as the result of a spiritual gift.

8. Christians believe not only in celibacy outside marriage, but chastity, or faithfulness, within it.

9. The virtue of celibacy has been extended into the vowed life of monasticism and the single priesthood.

10. Celibacy in the priesthood was to be obligatory for all.

11. In its earliest impulses celibacy was egalitarian and even subversive of patriarchal family relationships.

12. The long struggle by popes and bishops for celibacy among the clergy was not over by Innocent's pontificate.

13. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates 

14. Celibacy is, at best, the lesser evil; by no means is it regarded as a panacea.

15. Purists argued that celibacy and spinsterhood were positive acts of self-determination, in contrast to the illusory freedom of libertarianism.

16. People in some religious orders take a vow of celibacy.

17. So it was a husband's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy.

18. The exact date was etched in memory because it was Day Five of my aborted Month of Celibacy.

19. We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy.

20. Oddly, it was men who'd left the active priesthood to marry who were most eloquent about celibacy.

21. Each peahen is on a treadmill and dare not jump off lest she condemn her sons to celibacy.

22. However, they are less and less willing either to hide or to lead lives of celibacy.

23. Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy.

24. Although members of the community dressed alike, the women in black robes, they were not bound to celibacy.

25. Neither rejection, protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays.

26. I had always wondered why the Catholic Church insists on celibacy vows for its clergy.

27. If it is lived in that world(http://), the vow of celibacy witnesses to other women and indeed to men.

28. Most men in highly polygamous societies are condemned to celibacy.

29. Just because Comrade Andrew was what he was, did that mean he had taken a vow of celibacy?

30. Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy.

31. This has, indeed, been advanced as an official reason for the enforcement of celibacy among priests.

32. This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.

33. My profession condemns me to celibacy.

34. Is celibacy a spiritual gift?

35. Particularly in the contemporary, because of the sex scandals of priests and the lack of priests(http:///celibacy.html), Sacerdotal Celibacy becomes a hot topic again.

36. Did the teaching of Paul on celibacy a command or an opinion?

37. It includes mint, which signifies suspicion, hydrangea which means heartlessness, and cornflowers, which stand for celibacy.

38. Knowing this truth, one should observe the vow of celibacy in thought, speech and action wholeheartedly.

39. The Roman Catholic Church has always condemned homosexuality because of its supposed unnaturalness - but it has long idealized celibacy, which, some might argue, is equally unnatural.

40. But I want to say it: Celibacy is the crime. Homosexuality is only a symptom.

41. How does Paul's teaching differ from that of the ascetics about celibacy?

42. A friend asks him: " Don't you regret for your celibacy? "

43. Seven married priests who were expelled from the Catholic Church for failing to obey the law of celibacy have been ordained in the Kenyan city of Kisumu.

44. Gregory VII did more than any previous Pope to enforce clerical celibacy.

45. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.

46. The concept of celibacy carries connotations of asceticism and religious fervor.

47. Bertone's comment that "many" psychologists and psychiatrists had demonstrated a link between paedophilia and homosexuality, but not the vow of celibacy, drew official ire from France.

48. How am I supposed to get in your pants if you took a vow of celibacy?

49. He asserted the supremacy of the Holy Writ over church dogma, attacked the worship of images, relics, and saints, and denounced the sacramental view of the Eucharist and enforced celibacy as well.

50. The abrogation of compulsory celibacy showed the utter instability and lack of moral foundation of the sect.

51. Both Mithraism and early Christianity considered abstinence, celibacy, and self- controltobe among their highest virtues.