Sentence examples for hurt this church from inspiring English sources

I don't want to hurt this church.

I felt that I don't want to hurt this church; I've done everything trying to make this church strong.

I did not want to hurt this church's reputation".

Just ahead of the conclave that will choose his successor, a quarter of American Catholics said Benedict's leadership had helped the Church, just over 10 percent said it hurt the Church, while most, 52 percent, said it had been mixed.

"I don't want to hurt the church," Mr. Mattsson said.

"I don't want to hurt the church of Jesus Christ," Mr. Jones said.

But that appeared to change this week when a state justice, citing the American bishops' acknowledgment last month at their meeting in Dallas that the church's culture of secrecy had hurt the church and its flock, ruled that the First Amendment could not be construed as a blanket shield protecting the church from requests for information in inquiries into priestly assaults on children.

Mr. MacLeish said that bankruptcy would not protect the liabilities of individual defendants in many of the cases, including Cardinal Law and several of his former top aides, who are now bishops elsewhere, and that bankruptcy would hurt the church's ability to raise money.