It was akin to taking holy orders, but the school St.

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It is often hard for them to imagine a life outside holy orders, which could be their fate if they alienated the bishop who has a hold over their salary, pension and private life.

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Perhaps in the next few years, in the grand tradition of his own order, the Jesuits, Pope Francis will inspire a new generation of seminarians to go into the sciences before they take their Holy Orders.

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The Labour member for Rhondda has other strings in abundance, as an author, having written biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson, as a BBC executive and as an Anglican priest - he resigned his holy orders in order to fight the seat of Wycombe in 1997.

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One well-known sadhu, Parbat Giri, from Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat, said the Mela was important because of the sense of community it gave holy men from different orders.

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The assembled holy men or sadhus represented various religious orders but the dreadlocked, naked Naga sadhus were the most visible.

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Throughout Sunday, millions of pilgrims and holy men (sadhus) belonging to various Hindu monastic orders bathed at Sangam.

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