Sentence examples for condition of the church from inspiring English sources

Because of the location and the run-down condition of the church, Ms. Troutman paid a third less than the asking price.

Mr. Zwilling said a "serious error in judgment" by Father Grange and others at the parish led to their spreading the word that Cardinal Egan refused to talk to them about the condition of the church.

"To appear hard up, the rector, churchwardens and vestrypersons for a number of years have concealed the true financial condition of the church," he told members of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1985.

The abortion ban was the condition of the church's support for Law & Justice.

And The Prince speaks with equal parts disdain and admiration about the contemporary condition of the Church and its Pope (Machiavelli 1965, 29, 44 46, 65, 91 91).

Alois Glück, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, has urged consideration of the "church-specific conditions that favor sexual abuse," which many have taken as a call for the church to reconsider the matter of its priests' celibacy.

Over the past year, he has struggled with Newnan officials about the condition of his church.

Freedom of speech is an absolute condition for good management of the church".

"Bad relations with Constantinople and bad relations with Rome were a mandatory condition of Soviet church ideology," Mr. Zubov said, as part of the Soviet regime's goal of counteracting centers of Christianity that were outside of its control.

Like many of those contacted, she spoke on the condition of anonymity because the church did not want anyone besides Mr. Riccio speaking to the press.

His ecclesiastical policy was conditioned by his determination to complete the subordination of the church to the crown.