Sentence examples for ecclesiastical to from inspiring English sources

The church has faced a wave of accusations in recent months that it covered up sexual abuse of children by priests and failed to take action — criminal or ecclesiastical — to punish pedophile priests and remove them from working with children.

The history of the legal principles of the relation of sacerdotium to imperium i.e., of ecclesiastical to secular authority or of church to state is a central factor in European history.

Erasmus explicitly rejected the "two swords" theory by which medieval popes attributed supreme power, both civil and ecclesiastical, to themselves as successors of St. Peter.

Just as the battle over gay marriage in the secular world has moved to the courts, so too has the Methodist Church resorted to ecclesiastical trials to enforce church law over homosexuality.

This is the gist of Luther's argument in the Ninety-five Theses, which he sent to his ecclesiastical superiors to persuade them to abandon the indulgence sale.

She had to go to the ecclesiastical court to get a divorce, so if nothing else you have to admire the strength of character of this girl".

He censured the powerful archbishop Hincmar of Reims for excommunicating an imperial vassal without papal approval, and he excommunicated Cardinal Anastasius of San Marcello (later the antipope Anastasius Bibliothecarius), in 853, to enforce ecclesiastical obedience to Rome.

In the 15th century Gregory IX Musabegian rejected efforts to transfer the see (ecclesiastical jurisdiction) to eastern Armenia in order to withdraw it from Roman influence.

"They still want to feel like something spiritual is happening in them and around them but they're not going to these big ecclesiastical buildings to get that".

As the papal legate, he summoned the king to appear before an ecclesiastical council to answer for the arrests and seizure of property.

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