There are ecclesiastical rules and precepts that were once effective, but now they have lost value or meaning.
Harris's Conclave and West's The Clowns of God (1980) both turn, as did Holy Father, a play I wrote for BBC Radio 4 last year, on ways in which the ecclesiastical rules of sexuality might be tested without sin.
They are eager to believe in the miraculous but also much more willing to bend ecclesiastical rules," says Dias in her piece.
What remained of the city was comprehended in this manorial order, and the distinction between town and country was largely obscured when secular and ecclesiastical lords ruled over the surrounding counties often as the vassals of barbarian kings (see manorialism).
Exercising both ecclesiastical and political rule in Russia, Philaret reformed church administration, instituted a program to establish a divinity college in each diocese, and established libraries to upgrade theological scholarship.
Recently, the church authorities barred her from practising in ecclesiastical tribunals, which rules over marriage annulments.
Given the shrinkage of the world because of travel and instantaneous communication, it's probably naive to believe that the papacy could be downsized to its dimensions in 1000 A.D. If Rome continues to rule the ecclesiastical roost, it makes sense for the College of Cardinals to be internationalized and for the papacy to be open to non-Italians.
Initially, there was disagreement concerning the nature of the government to be established, and some held that the holy city should be ruled under ecclesiastical authority.
As a way of cutting Serbia down to size, the party bosses agreed in 1967 that it would be a good idea if the republic of Macedonia had its own Orthodox church, instead of being part of the Serbian one.Under Orthodox rules, new ecclesiastical bodies normally gain independence not through communist fiat but by the consent of their mother church, and of the other Orthodox churches round the world.
The conversion of the ecclesiastic see to one ruled by a Calvinist prince challenged the principle of ecclesiastical reservation.
