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Since the priests served a unique role of service amongst the nation of Israel, e.g. service in the Holy Temple and consumption of the Holy Terumah, so the Torah required them to follow unique rules of ritual purity, in order to protect them against ritual defilement . Some of these rules are still maintained today in Orthodox Judaism.
List of disqualifications for the Jewish priesthood; List of high priests of Israel; M. Maaleh Ashan; P. Presumption of priestly descent; Priestly Blessing;
Previously clergy were disqualified to sit in the House of Commons due to the House of Commons (Clergy Disqualification) Act 1801 and section 10 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975. The Bill was a reaction to the selection of David Cairns , a laicised Catholic priest, as the Labour candidate for the safe seat of Greenock and ...
John VIII, archbishop of Ravenna, was excommunicated by Pope Nicholas I for various crimes, including the forging of documents to support claims against the Roman See, making unjust demands on suffragan bishops for money, illegally imprisoning priests and maltreating papal legates. He later submitted to the Pope at the Roman synod in 861.
Feb. 20—An archdiocese-maintained list of Catholic clergy members who have been deemed "credibly accused" of sexual abuse in Northern New Mexico parishes should also include others named by ...
This is a list, in chronological order, of present and past offences to which the Catholic Church has attached the penalty of excommunication; the list is not exhaustive. In most cases these were " automatic excommunications", wherein the violator who knowingly breaks the rule is considered automatically excommunicated from the church ...
While the ritual removal of the vestments no longer exists, canon law still prohibits the wear of a clerical collar by laicized priests. [4] In the Catholic Church, a bishop, priest, or deacon may be dismissed from the clerical state as a penalty for certain grave offences, or by a papal decree granted for grave reasons.
Apr. 10—The Diocese of Manchester has added three names to its online list of dozens of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse going back to 1950, church officials announced this week.