Sentence examples for grave reason from inspiring English sources

Catholic canon law requires priests — "unless there is a grave reason to the contrary" — to take a spiritual retreat each year, and four weeks of vacation.

The resignation came under a code of canon law that allows a bishop to resign before retirement age for a "grave reason" that makes him "unsuitable for the fulfillment of his office".

The Archbishop of St Paul, John Nienstadt, and a deputy bishop, Lee Anthony Piche, offered the Pope their resignations under a code of canon law which lets them step down due to illness or a "grave" reason leaving them unfit for office.

Before Francis' papacy began in 2013, it was Vatican practice to reveal if resignations were retirements because of age or some other "grave" reason that made a bishop or priest unfit for office.

With the commencement of the ground operation, there is very grave reason to fear that the "pragmatism" that Livni praises on the part of Abbas is not part of her own strategic vocabulary.

A cardinal can be deprived of his rank for what the Church calls "the most grave reasons;" he may, if he wishes, resign.

See Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Relating to Discovery, 48 F.R.D., at 501. 'Every lawyer dislikes to take the witness stand and will do so only for grave reasons.

Although Vatican officials have not publicly detailed their specific objections to the choice of Bishop Lei, they said he was rejected for "proven and very grave reasons" that he and other bishops are well aware of.

His incredibly grave reasons were the desire to see that a defense contract for a new tanker is awarded to a bidder who will do the assembly work in Alabama.

Catholics, the bishops taught, could never vote for a candidate because he or she supported any of these evils but only despite such support and only for proportionately grave reasons.

"There may be times when a Catholic who rejects a candidate's unacceptable position may decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons," the document says.