Sentence examples for act of church from inspiring English sources

Out of this act of church appeasement grew an entirely different Sunday schedule with many fewer trains – in Scotland, where Sabbatarianism was especially strong, hardly any ran at all.

The establishment of a hierarchy and the division of the Church into bishoprics and other acts of Church government are also done by authority of the lay ruler.

"We have witnessed the last act not of church life, but of the hierarchal church's life," said Eugene Kennedy, a psychologist and former priest who is the author of "The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality".

In these institutions, the penitent acknowledges his or her sin to a priest and is absolved, or washed clean, by the act of the church.

The town is also home to a number of churches which act as important landmarks as a result of their unique architectural styles and sometimes their locations at key road junctions.

It would be seen as "an act of a dying church".

Meanwhile Rosie Harper of Oxford said a no vote would be seen as "an act of a dying church".

"It will inevitably be seen as the act of a dying church, more wedded to the past than committed to hope for the future," she said.

"Secondly, it will inevitably be seen as the act of a dying Church more wedded to the past than committed to hope for the future".

In fact, it is often difficult to separate the threads of social life from the community's religious life, making the act of opposing the church a life-altering decision.

MICHELLE DANIEL CHADWICK Dallas, Nov. 10, 2008 • You never directly state what should be made clear: "Corpus Christi," a play written by a baptized Catholic, based in some loose way upon his experience growing up gay within the Roman Catholic Church, is an act of dissent from within the church and not an attack on it.