Sentence examples for ecclesiastical mandate from inspiring English sources

The institute received the ecclesiastical mandate to "live the mercy of Jesus the Saviour with girls and women in a situation of maternity out of wedlock and their children, and with the mothers of families who are having a difficult time with their maternity".

The organizational apparatus of the papacy experienced a great expansion at this time, notably the chancery, which became the nerve centre of the papacy in which the universally valid and applicable law and the instructions and mandates to distant ecclesiastical officers were drafted.

In the past, new calendars have been mandated by emperors -- like Julius Caesar; ecclesiastical authorities - like Pope Gregory XIII; and so forth.

This mandate finally acknowledged that crimes against children should take priority over bureaucratic church policies that served to cloak rogue priests and bishops in a fog of ecclesiastical evasion.

§ 17.655 Ecclesiastical endorsing organizations.

Ecclesiastical endorsing organizations.

It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.

There were also ecclesiastical schools.

What are Archbishop Nichols' ecclesiastical qualifications?

Other enemies included wealthy ecclesiastical landowners.

Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.