Sentence examples for formal exhortation from inspiring English sources

In November 2013 his first formal exhortation proposed wider consultation within the Church and condemned the world financial system, but said nothing new on the vexed questions of abortion, sexuality or the male-only priesthood.

Schaeffer didn't like the formal melding of church and state, but his exhortation to readers was that Christianity, properly applied, "brings forth not only certain personal results, but also governmental and legal results".

A papal exhortation is an official statement issued by the Vatican that ranks below formal encyclicals, which are used to state the Church's position on things like abortion and contraception, but above a regular letter to the faithful.

Among the many pearls of wisdom in The Artist's Compass, one finds exhortations to explore other art forms, to engage with the world, to prioritize a formal education, and to consider making a home outside the major art capitals.

Cardinal Burke — who has said that the pope's exhortation, which opened the door for divorced Catholics remarried outside the church to receive communion, might require "a formal act of correction" — has been unusually outspoken in his criticism of Francis.

"U Comin," was the only exhortation.

Indignant exhortation only gets us so far.

"An exhortation to greatness!" it read.

Kimberly Davis is following her brother's exhortation.

Greater co-ordination and exhortation may help.

Exhortation, punishment, or further training will have no effect.