Sentence examples for clerical tradition from inspiring English sources

This represents a big change from the years following General Franco's death in 1975 and the election of a Socialist government in 1982, when the Spanish left's anti-clericalism permeated the arts world.Yet, in fact, there was a left-wing clerical tradition even under Franco.

Gerardo Bianco, a longtime political associate, was quoted as saying, "Andreotti belongs to a certain Jesuitical, clerical tradition in which you accept that in a fallen world, you have to work with the material at hand".

His parents were described as having a "strong intellectual and clerical tradition," both grandfathers having been in the clergy.

"God does not want it!" But for a nun, fighting off a priest's advances means pinballing through centuries-old sexual and clerical traditions.

Charlie Hebdo drew on an anti-clerical tradition in France that goes way back in time, and at some point the Church quite sensibly gave up complaining.

Subsequently, Shinran married and had children, thereby departing from Buddhism's ancient tradition of clerical celibacy.

In fact, by his personal support of special arrangements for former Anglican clergy, he may have weakened the tradition of clerical celibacy.

The use of nephews, rather than direct descendants, is a product of the tradition of clerical celibacy within the Catholic Church, although hereditary descent from uncles to nephews is also seen in the patriarchate of the Assyrian Church of the East.

This class includes not only the traditional clerical elite, but also opponents of absolute clerical rule.

As lord high treasurer, Juxon was the last English clergyman to hold both secular and clerical offices in the medieval tradition of clerical state service.

Clerical designs are bound to tradition and slow to change.