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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Priests"”.
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Vocational Satisfaction Among Roman Catholic Priests
… that environment. A sample of Roman Catholic priests rated the concepts, self, ideal-self and the Church on an adapted semantic differential scale. Difference scores were cal-culated for each subject for three concept pairs: self-ideal-self, self-church, and ideal-self-church. In addition the …
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Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21
… British forces. It has looked at the attitude of priests to the use of political violence during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. Drawing from archival and printed sources, the thesis has constructed a picture of the clergy's response. Priests denounced the I.R.A. campaign in public …
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Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale
… the <em>Tale</em> and abbreviated discussions of priests effectively conceal the potential heresy in the Parson’s presentation of penance. Building on prior scholarship identifying Chaucer’s orthodox and heterodox sources and cataloging manuscript witnesses of the <em>Parson’s Tale</em>, this …
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Child sexual molestation by priests and reactions of Catholic parishioners: A comparative study
This sociological study explores the effects an incident of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest has on Catholic parishioners. An interpretation of a comparative analysis was done between a parish in which an incident of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest occurred and a demographically similar …
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Polish Catholic Priests in Canada and Ireland: Migration, Leadership, and the Mobility of Strangers
… on 30 in-depth interviews with Polish Catholic priests in Canada and Ireland, ethnographic research, and content analysis of Catholic Church documents in order to investigate the experiences and narratives of clerics in terms of their own personal migrations and the role they took on in their …
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The terms used for the priests and other clergy in the Anglo-Saxon period
Although the priests and other clergy of the Anglo-Saxon Church have received far less attention from modern scholars than the institutions which they staffed, attention is now turning again to these personnel, and especially to the ordained clergy below the rank of bishop. As yet, however, no new …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
This paper seeks to demonstrate how anti-Catholicism, like other domestic issues such as race, economics, and politics, influenced U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church, and monarchism/despotism were all seen …
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The use of referrals for therapeutic counseling by Catholic parish priests and the implications for clinical social workers
… project focused on the question: How do parish priests deal with people who are in need of therapeutic counseling? Central to this study was the hypothesis, that priests refer people to professionals, when there is no conflict expected between values and morals of the church and the values and …
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The use of referrals for therapeutic counseling by Catholic parish priests and the implications for clinical social workers
… project focused on the question: How do parish priests deal with people who are in need of therapeutic counseling? Central to this study was the hypothesis, that priests refer people to professionals, when there is no conflict expected between values and morals of the church and the values and …
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Towards a framework of creating coping strategies for newly ordained Roman Catholic priests engaged with major transitions in their lives
… This thesis will explore how newly ordained priests cope with these transitions to assist with creating a new framework for coping strategies for priests engaged with this major transition. When he is ordained, the new priest leaves the seminary which has been his home for the previous six or …
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The understanding and acceptance of children’s rights amongst those in formation (or recently ordained) to become Catholic priests in Ireland: an exploratory study
… rights of those training to be Catholic priests.<br/><br/>Given the concurrent focus on the individual seminarian or ordained priest and the influence of the wider contexts in which they are situated, two theoretical frameworks have been chosen to reflect this dual nature of the Holy See. …
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Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision
Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.
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Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision
Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.
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