Sentence examples for head of the congregation from inspiring English sources

In 1982, two years after being appointed head of the congregation, he began leading prayers for peace regularly on Mondays.

The Vatican has claimed that was long its policy, although Cardinal Hoyos's actions while he was head of the Congregation for the Clergy suggest otherwise.

His sister Jane is now the head of the Congregation of Jesus order of nuns – the female equivalent of the Jesuits – in Rome.

Lenny even phoned Rome, asking to speak to Cardinal Ouellet, head of the Congregation for Bishops, who would be expected to investigate any matters relating to cardinals.

As head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he took charge of US cases of child abuse; it made his hair stand on end.

"The head of the Congregation of Bishops is a very important nomination; it determines the ruling class of the Catholic Church for the next 20 years," said Andrea Tornielli, a Vatican expert with the Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale.

And there was the funeral of Charles Dickens at Westminster Abbey in 1870, during which men lifted their children high above their shoulders that they might catch a glimpse of the great poet over the heads of the congregation.

That last word appeared nowhere in the Vatican's carefully worded letter, signed by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops, one of five congregations that reviewed the policy.

When he was the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine and the Faith, he stressed the view that homosexuality was "intrinsically disordered".

It is understood that when Pope Paul invited the aged heads of Curial offices to resign last spring, several of them, including Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo, obstructionist head of the crucial Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, replied that they were prepared to serve him unto death.

At their center, now as before, is Cardinal Ottaviani, seventy-eight, who is at his desk in the old Holy office building every day, even though he resigned in January as head of the Doctrinal Congregation.