Concept

Priesthood in the Catholic Church

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main ordination status in the Catholic Church

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In this as in all other cases, the priesthood depends for its authority on carrying with it the mass of the people--those who, possessing no accumulations, live on the wages of daily labour; popularly but incorrectly termed the working classes, and by French writers, in their Roman law phraseology, proletaires. These, therefore, who are not allowed the smallest political rights, are incorporated into the Spiritual…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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The priests are persons established under the authority of the sovereign to direct these prayers and all religious worship. A numerous Church could not exist without ecclesiastics; but these ecclesiastics are not the Church.
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Each member must have surrendered his means to the order, but he received them again on retiring, and in the probationary period silence was enjoined (_ἐχεμυθία_).[36]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Part of Deism.