Sentence examples for church calling from inspiring English sources

While other Catholics have criticized the church, calling for the resignation of high officials and withholding donations, many Hispanics have offered unwavering support.

BEIJING — More than a dozen Christian leaders in China have thrown their support behind an embattled underground church, calling for the government to end its persecution and for broader religious freedoms as well.

He made great efforts to organize the laity, first in Italy and then throughout the whole church, calling for "specialized movements" and particularly encouraging Catholic Action (the "Jocists"), a Christian youth organization for the working classes.

With their bright livery and bells, the fire trucks feel like the priests of this anniversary, swooping up and down the aisles of a giant church, calling the grateful to prayer.

The question is: What are we doing collectively as a community to respond?" The Day of the Dead ceremony began at dusk, when the dance group exited the church, calling on frantic Hurricane Sandy relief volunteers to pause and join them in a procession around the neighborhood.

As Pope Francis convened a closed meeting on Tuesday with eight cardinals he appointed to overhaul the Vatican, he used his second revealing interview in two weeks to make a barbed indictment of the failings of the Roman Catholic Church, calling it overly clerical and insular, interested in temporal power and often led by "narcissists".

"Erotic vagrancy," the church called it.

THE Catholic church calls it "morally unacceptable".

We have a chance to form a new kind of church, called a church without walls.

The church called the legislation "a dramatically and morally unacceptable change to Irish law".

I soon joined a fast-growing church called Our Lady of the Decoupaged Trinket Box.