Sentence examples for clerical rites from inspiring English sources
Although the mission was not a complete success, the royal commission did manage to persuade the papacy not to impose an interdict, or ban on clerical rites, on England or to excommunicate the king.
The insistence on clerical celibacy in the Latin rite is no more than a matter of discipline rather than of basic faith, and which therefore could be varied.
Those suicides – both at the age of 28 – and the continuing immunity of the paedophile who preyed on those young men put the Farrell case high on the list of outrages pursued by Broken Rites, the support group for survivors of clerical abuse.
For priests who rape children, the worst possible punishment is defrocking, but a woman attempting to join the clerical club is denied the sacraments -- including the last rites -- and her eternal soul is damned.
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.
Computers displaced clerical workers.
He opposed efforts to expand clerical jurisdictions.
Sounds like a clerical error.
JULY: Right, the clerical genre.
