The two earliest codes were concerned with clerical matters, and Æthelstan stated that he acted on the advice of Wulfhelm and his bishops.
In Brittany, Henry had the support of the local church hierarchy and rarely intervened in clerical matters, except occasionally in order to cause difficulties for his rival Louis of France.
She acknowledged that the bureau has a backlog that prevents it from getting much of the information out to the towns that they have requested, but it is a matter of clerical under staffing, not collusion.
Administrations appear to be addressing bullying as a matter of clerical record, and they do not seem to be seeking to identify individuals in pain, or to focus on environments that inspire it.
When he was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 and given a gloomy prognosis, he chose to follow the example of Cardinal Basil Hume, eschewing traditional clerical secrecy around such matters and sharing the news with his diocese.
Had it been from any other outfit, we would have dismissed the matter as a clerical error of the kind that can happen to anybody these days, but, coming from S. & S., the thing was obviously deliberate.
It is difficult to say how influential the statement by the association, made up of 27 moderate clerics, will be in Iran's complex and opaque power structure, but Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the last word on many important matters, is sensitive to clerical opinion.
She blamed the issue on clerical errors.
A roaring economy does not guarantee wealth to a science professor and a clerical worker -- or anyone, for that matter.
Still, no matter how many seats the clerical establishment gains, it will be a Pyrrhic victory -- the regime is going to be far more vulnerable to the growing dissatisfaction of the Iranian public and less legitimate to the rest of the world.
