A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest who engages part-time in ordinary secular work.
（罗马天主教会或英格兰圣公会中从事兼职平凡世俗工作的）工人教士，工人司铎
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But Pope Pius XII stopped the worker priest movement, and Pope John Paul II closed the base communities.
After the war, Goss attached himself to a group of worker priests in an industrial section of Paris.
Some argued that the spiritual lives and sacramental function of worker priests suffered because of their political engagements.
There are other ‘unspoken’ trade-offs with a worker priest arrangement in a mission.
The pope thought that the worker priest was no longer a spiritual person and ordered it to stop.
It is clear that the aspirations of the first worker priests were not realised, and that a great gulf remains between the world of work and the priest's calling as presently understood.
Thus the worker priests had to be crushed - by Pope Pius XII.
He was a worker priest who, like Tom Dooley, had to die before we could celebrate the totality of his humanness.
Such courses were common 60 years ago when the nation had hundreds of worker priests, whose mission was to help laborers.
As well with the worker priests as in the Liberation Theology this practice has a clear political accent.
Definition of worker priest in US English:
worker priest
nounˈwərkər prēst
A Roman Catholic priest, especially in postwar France, or an Anglican priest who engages part-time in ordinary secular work.
（罗马天主教会或英格兰圣公会中从事兼职平凡世俗工作的）工人教士，工人司铎
Example sentencesExamples
He was a worker priest who, like Tom Dooley, had to die before we could celebrate the totality of his humanness.
There are other ‘unspoken’ trade-offs with a worker priest arrangement in a mission.
After the war, Goss attached himself to a group of worker priests in an industrial section of Paris.
Such courses were common 60 years ago when the nation had hundreds of worker priests, whose mission was to help laborers.
But Pope Pius XII stopped the worker priest movement, and Pope John Paul II closed the base communities.
Some argued that the spiritual lives and sacramental function of worker priests suffered because of their political engagements.
As well with the worker priests as in the Liberation Theology this practice has a clear political accent.
It is clear that the aspirations of the first worker priests were not realised, and that a great gulf remains between the world of work and the priest's calling as presently understood.
Thus the worker priests had to be crushed - by Pope Pius XII.
The pope thought that the worker priest was no longer a spiritual person and ordered it to stop.