Sentence examples for german priest from inspiring English sources

One 17th-century German priest is thought to have been the first to publish the notion of the magic lantern.

Volapük, invented by a German priest in 1880, was one of the first attempts at an artificial universal language.

In the midst of the fighting, a German priest named Schulze asked his Polish counterparts whether they would let him take the heart into safekeeping.

In the case of the infamous German priest, one diocese official hinted that his problem could be fixed by transferring him to teach at a girls' school.

Arika Okrent on Johann Schleyer, a German priest who created Volapük, a heavily umlauted universal language, in response to a calling from God.

And various others have run with the idea, with techniques such as mapping notes to letters (developed by the 17th-century German priest Gaspar Schott).

German priests adopted a charter last month barring sexually abusive clergy from priestly duties.

A group of 20 German priests travel south every July to work alongside him for a few days.

His interest in the Society of Jesus (a religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola) influenced him to establish the Collegium Germanicum (1552) to train German priests in Rome under the Jesuits.

"I am not harming anyone". The German priests say their own prayers here, but the question of whether the cathedral will ever be used for normal worship remains open.

Catholics make up around 30% of Germany's population but the number of congregants leaving the church swelled to 181,000 in 2010, with the increase blamed on revelations of sexual abuse by German priests.