Sentence examples for church power from inspiring English sources

It often had a strong anti-Catholic bent; it was a secularisation of the liberal Protestant hatred of Church power.

They deserve some indication that the entire church power structure is responding with the utmost gravity to this issue.

Freemasonry was growing as a counterweight to church power in those years and even today looms large in the Italian popular imagination as an anticlerical force.

With the gradual decline of church power and the revival of Classical ideas, Renaissance designers found their inspiration in the myths and legends of Greece and Rome.

Yet the limits of church power in the secular realm -- on issues from abortion to immigration to Iraq -- are also apparent now.

The referendum debate in the Republic has taken place against the background of an overwhelming public consensus (including among practising Catholics and indeed priests) that church power in Ireland was until recently excesssive and widely abused.

"The message is that the church's power should be stronger than civil power".

While the king took over the church's power, this new middle class took much of its wealth and entered parliament as county and borough representatives.

"Brother André doesn't particularly represent the church's power.

Joseph's government appointed provincial intendants and reduced the church's power in the state.

What makes it different – and what gives this crisis its depth – is the church's power.