Sentence examples for lay control from inspiring English sources

The Cluniac reform, whose influence gradually radiated beyond Cluny and encouraged reforms in other monastic houses, stressed independence from lay control, opposed simony and clerical marriage, and practiced an elaborate routine of liturgical prayer.

Alexander and Hildebrand continued papal support for the pataria in Milan; as noted, the reformers demanded an end to marriage of the clergy, to the buying of church offices, and to lay control of appointments to church offices.

That program was chiefly directed at freeing churches from lay control, especially by the appointment of unworthy candidates to ecclesiastical office through simony (i.e., the practice of buying church offices), and at forbidding the pervasive practice of clerical marriage and concubinage, which threatened the substance of the church.

After this no further discord is mentioned until 816, when Wulfred presided over a council which attacked lay control of religious houses.

Although the exact nature of his business with the pope is unknown, it was likely connected with the issue that arose between the archbishop and Coenwulf over lay control of monasteries.

Bede also makes it clear that the church in Aldfrith's day was less subject to lay control of monasteries, a practice he dated from the time of Aldfrith's death.

But despite a tendency towards final big speeches, there is an impressive subtlety in the way Moore shapes events and uses language (his characters are often brilliantly inarticulate and revealing as they lie, control and posture) to explore the legacies of colonialism, class, hierarchy, privilege and racism that create their own prisons.

The film is one big male attack on women, who are all written as lying, controlling, craven, castrating, brainless bimbo deceivers.

That with a clear, focused agenda, an individual who was a firm and good administrator could lay some control on the city".

The civil war of 69 had made it abundantly clear that real power in the Empire lay with control over the army.

In the "no-lie" control group, the children were told that there was a fun game in the next room, without eluding to any candy.