Sentence examples for clerical act from inspiring English sources

SELDOM in recent times has a clerical act inspired so much jubilation.

Since what goes for conversion also goes for all other clerical acts, only a few anointed rabbis will be able to determine the authenticity of one's marriage, divorce, birth, death — and every rite in between.

At most hospitals, nurses and clerical employees acted as the main figures in patient safety practices.

Today, such an act of clerical censorship seems a textbook example of bigotry blocking intellectual progress.

Granting such licenses is a clerical rather than religious act, so critics of her defiance point to the separation of church and state in public affairs.

She earned $20 an hour to perform routine clerical tasks.

Then Sir John Peace, Standard's chairman, definitely put his foot in it last year by calling the offences "clerical errors" and not "wilful acts".

They tried to act like it was a clerical error.

While these disparate acts hardly amount to a clerical uprising and are unlikely to result in change, church scholars note that for the first time in years, groups of priests in several countries are standing with those who are challenging the church to rethink the all-male celibate priesthood.

The two earliest codes were concerned with clerical matters, and Æthelstan stated that he acted on the advice of Wulfhelm and his bishops.

Using his strongest language to date on his church's record on clerical sex abuse, he deplored its failure to act swiftly and decisively in the past.