take vows
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Professed Knights, from which the Grand Masters are chosen, take vows of poverty and chastity as well as obedience to the pope.
From Reuters ● May 3, 2023
Bishops and priests take vows to live celibate lives, and Scout leaders take an oath “ … to help other people at all times.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
In Kerala, it is not uncommon for families to have one or two daughters take vows as nuns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
It’s true that the Vatican prohibits women from ordination into the clerical hierarchy—though nuns take vows, they are not ordained, and so they are laypeople, not clerics.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2018
“Do you wish to pursue the cloistered life and take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
