Sentence examples for church divisions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Anderson, who is involved in suits against church divisions around the country, said he based his claims on a review of church financial statements.

Claire Noonan, who works in Chicago as an organizer for Call to Action, a progressive Catholic organization, said she was struck by the consensus across church divisions that a crossroads has been reached.

The next dramatic church division took place during the Reformation in the West in the 16th century.

Such amenities are typically paid for by the congregation with three-year capital campaigns, on top of the church's operating budget, which is often financed with tithes, said Malcolm P. Graham, president of Cargill Associates' church division, a fund-raising consultant.

Because the church's divisions often mirrored the country's, a politician who captured the typical Catholic voter was probably well on his way to victory, and so would-be leaders of both parties had every incentive to frame their positions in Catholic-friendly terms.

In their view, the possibility that Francis intends to be a social-justice pope who deliberately soft-pedals debates over doctrine and morals is just a media creation, reflecting press caricatures of the church's divisions rather than Francis's actual statements and intent.

"This is an evil, this is a sickness within our Church: sowing divisions, sowing hatred, not sowing peace".

William Sheehan, chairman of the church's Division of Prayer, became a lawyer late in life.

Newsrooms have long cultivated a strict "church-state" division between themselves and their papers' advertising departments, fearing a loss of independence and integrity and with it the trust of readers.

"I am thinking in particular of the sins against the unity of the church, of the divisions in the body of the church," he said.

The 105th leader of the Anglican Communion will face a long-term decline in church attendance and divisions between modernists and traditionalists.