Sentence examples for church matters from inspiring English sources

Though Puri was reluctant to weigh in on internal Church matters, she expressed her appreciation that "His holiness and the Church seems to be very committed to the global causes of peace, of development, and of people's human rights".

HOFFMANN: Church matters during my period were dealt -with on the basis of a separation of Church and State; that is to say, we intervened when a priest violated the so-called "Pulpit Paragraph" which had been put into the penal code in the days of Imperial Germany or for violating the Treachery Act, or if Church organizations were active in worldly matters, which was prohibited by a decree.

"Everyone here takes a great interest in church matters," Mr. Phillips said.

Granger, like the comedy itself, could never be accused of taking church matters seriously.

Mr. Kennedy is a liberal voice in church matters, but even staunch conservatives are voicing outrage.

In the 1530s and '40s the farmers grumbled over taxes, and the clergymen complained about interference in church matters.

But this is a church matter.

"It was almost a fierce sense, almost an angry feeling, this knowledge that the church mattered so intensely".

Our churches matter; they do involve cost – but what (a question Dr Beeching didn't ask) is the cost of losing them?

Why do the prayers of clergy of other churches matter more than my own?

Received authority, whether of Ptolemy in the sciences or of the church in matters of the spirit, was to be subject to the probings of unfettered minds.