Sentence examples for function of the church from inspiring English sources

There's a religious function of the church and a business function of the church and it all runs out of one office".

I don't see how you can build a ministry on that, and I don't see what that has to do with the unique function of the Church.

"The function of the church," he said in a 1964 interview with The New York Times, "is to see a need and respond to it.

Justice Breyer said voucher programs differed "in both kind and degree from aid programs upheld in the past" because they provided public money "to a core function of the church: the teaching of religious truths to young children".

It is an ancient function of the church to host such a public gathering, and each individual will pray in a way that only they can, in the face of their own feelings about death and pain.

By contrast, the proper function of the church is to promote the "duty sui generis, not of human beings towards human beings, but of the human race towards itself" (6:97).

He was also the author of numerous books on the ecumenical movement and the nature and functions of the church.

The Reporter said that "three cardinals — Giovanni Battista Re, Crescenzio Sepe and Franc Rode — were chosen by lot to help assist in the general functioning of the church in the time before the election of the new pope".

The surviving mosque, now underground, functions today as part of the church's crypt.

"The big issue for me is removing a man from ministry and making it clear he is not authorized to function on behalf of the church," Bishop Lori said in an interview.

Compiled by official censors, the Index was an implementation of one part of the teaching function of the Roman Catholic church: to prevent the contamination of the faith or the corruption of morals through the reading of theologically erroneous or immoral books.