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Do secular priests who work in a parish church take the vow of poverty?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes, especially in Religious Orders.
The meaning of "Poverty" is flexible within the church. For instance, there are monasteries that only rely on donations that "happen" to appear at their doorstep, there are monasteries who only operate on what they need for a few days and donate the rest to the poor, or ranging to the Dominicans who just have community supplies of what they need.
Diocesan priests are expected to live in the socio-economic state in which their congregation, on average, lives. For instance, a priest in an old, poor area of a city will not live across town in a large, stone, gated house. However, a priest whose congregation would be congressmen, let's say, would live in the state in which most congressmen live in. This vow of poverty means that their lives are not extravagant past what they need to do God's will.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 10y agoNo, Catholic priests do not take a vow of poverty. Monks take vows of obedience, converso morum (conversion of manners) and stability - the first includes poverty and chastity; other Catholic religious (friars, etc.) take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. So Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, etc. all take vows of poverty, if they are later ordained to the priesthood, then they would end up as a priest with a vow of poverty, but the vow is from their religious profession, not from their ordination.
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∙ 12y agoNo, a parish priest takes vows of chastity and obedience only.
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∙ 8y agoNo.
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Where do priests live?
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What was the medieval church divided into?
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What is the stick that priests use in an orthodox church called?
A pole. Actually, it is called a staff. As a priest is a shepherd to his flock. It is not used by parish priests in the Orthodox Church , only by Bishops or other hierarchy.
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The local bishop assigns all priests and the parish has little, if any, say so in the decision.
What is the meaning of a parish church?
A parish is either an administrative area of an ecclesiastical community, or an administrative area of secular/civil local government. The Parish Church would be the only church of a particular denomination in that religious group's particular parish. If there is more than one predominant religion in the area, there could be two or more Parish Churches, one for each denomination. See Related Links below this box for more information.
What did the parish priests do in middle ages?
"Parish priest" is a job.
How does a priest get his parish?
Catholic priests are assigned a parish by the bishop of the diocese.
The parish priest is appointed and financed by who?
Parish priests are appointed by a bishop and supported by the local parish of the priest.
