A reason for this has been sought in the supremacy of the sacerdotal caste. |
The resulting properly pious disposition serves the earthly church by providing it with members who do not challenge sacerdotal authority. |
They implored prelates to observe vigilantly all sacerdotal activities in order to secure the subservience of priests and to rout out rebels and rogues. |
He was alive in his sacerdotal vestments, with his golden censer in his hand. |
The man is in fact respected in the family precisely because of the sacerdotal function that he fulfils. |
That is the training we seek to give our seminarians and the true sacerdotal upbringing we hope to give them. |