1. Vatican Document Codifies Guidelines for Sexual Abuse Cases Equating Abuse and Women's Ordinations
(About us/News)

Office of the Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches "The July 15th release of Vatican revisions to the internal church laws regarding discipline of pedophilic priests, will hopefully speed the judicial ...

2. MCC Reach December 2008
(About us/News)

... collective power will renew their lives and fulfill wishes for the coming year. At the end of the festival, priests read aloud the names of every person living in their area. Then they attach the list ...

3. Israel's Holiness Code. (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13)
(Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?)

... note 2.) Consider one specific example. Historians tell us that many Canaanites and Egyptians worshipped a goddess of love and fertility called Astarte or Ishtar. Within her temples were special priests ...

4. MCC Global Justice News and Updates
(About us/News)

... we were met by Rev. Michael Kimindu and Rev. James Mutunga, both Kenyan Anglican priests, who seemingly have had it with the Anglican stance on homosexuality and all things exclusive! Rev Michael kindly ...

5. The Revelation to John
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... (6) and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. (7) Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including ...

6. The Letter to the Hebrews
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... hope, through which we draw near to God. (20) Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath (21) (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him ...

7. The Acts of the Apostles
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... you from your wickedness."   Acts Chapter 4 (1) As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, (2) being upset because they taught the ...

8. The Good News According to John
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... bosom of the Father, he has declared him. (19) This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" (20) He declared, and didn't ...

9. The Good News According to Luke
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... and those who were with him; (4) how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?" ...

10. The Good News According to Mark
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" (27) He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. (28) Therefore the Son of ...

11. The Good News According to Matthew
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))

... east, and have come to worship him." (3) When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. (4) Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them ...

12. Jeremiah's Letter
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... on display, they make crowns for the heads of their gods. (10) Sometimes also the priests steal gold and silver from their gods and bestow it upon themselves. (11) Yes, they will give from it to the common ...

13. The Book of Baruch
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... man's ability, (7) and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joachim the high priest, the son of Hilkiah, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people who were with him at Jerusalem, (8) at the same ...

14. The Book of Judith
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... prayers and looked upon their afflictions; for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty. (14) And Joacim the high priest, and all the priests who ...

15. The Book of Tobit
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... with the first-shorn sheep, and these I gave at the altar to the priests, the children of Aaron. (7) The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem; another ...

16. Malachi
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your ...

17. Zechariah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... to entreat Yahweh's favor, (3) and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these ...

18. Haggai
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying, (11) "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, (12) 'If someone carries ...

19. Zephaniah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, (5) those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, ...

20. Micah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. (10) They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. (11) Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, ...

21. Joel
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn. (10) The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine ...

22. Hosea
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.   Hosea Chapter 5 (1) "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against ...

23. Daniel (Greek Septuagint)
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... exalt him above all for ever. (84) Priests of the Lord, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all for ever. (85) Servants of the Lord, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all for ever. (86) ...

24. Ezekiel
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst. (26) Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy ...

25. Lamentations
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. (5) Her adversaries are become the ...

26. Jeremiah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

  Jeremiah Chapter 1 (1) The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: (2) to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of ...

27. Job
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... a belt. (19) He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. (20) He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. (21) He pours contempt on princes, ...

28. Neremiah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. (17) Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem ...

29. Ezra
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.'" (5) Then the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and ...

30. The Second Book of Chronicles
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... in them; such things as belonged to the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. (7) He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; ...

31. The First Book of Chronicles
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. (3) In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh: (4) Uthai ...

32. The Second Book of Kings
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. (12) He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he ...

33. The First Book of Kings
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... recorder; (4) and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; (5) and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, ...

34. The Second Book of Samuel
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... recorder; (17) and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; (18) and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites and the Pelethites; ...

35. The First Book of Samuel
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. (4) When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he ...

36. Judges
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. (31) So they set them up Micah's ...

37. Joshua
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... (3) and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it. (4) ...

38. Deuteronomy
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... place which Yahweh your God shall choose; (9) and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of ...

39. Numbers
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... (2) These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. (3) These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister ...

40. Leviticus
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... for him. (5) He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (6) He shall ...

41. Exodus
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))

... then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; (6) and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak ...

42. MCC Marriage Equality Newsletter
(About us/News)

... Demonstration in Marin County Don't Amend.com Actions Around the Country Priests Challenge Vatican on Gays and Same-Sex Marriage Wedding Taxes and Equality Protest As mentioned before, we can ...

43. MCC Marriage Equality Newsletter
(Resources/Same Sex Marriages)

... Demonstration in Marin County Don't Amend.com Actions Around the Country Priests Challenge Vatican on Gays and Same-Sex Marriage Wedding Taxes and Equality Protest As mentioned before, we can ...

44. Revelation
(Bible/New Testament (King James Version))

... loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, (6) And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (7) Behold, he cometh with ...

45. Hebrews
(Bible/New Testament (King James Version))

... he was made priest: (21) (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of ...

46. Acts
(Bible/New Testament (King James Version))

... unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, (2) Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. ...

47. John
(Bible/New Testament (King James Version))

... him. (19) And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? (20) And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (21) ...