Sentence examples for lay oversight from inspiring English sources

In the history of the Catholic Church, never before has a group of bishops subjected their operations to lay oversight, Mr. Appleby said.

Thornton, in noting that fewer court proceedings were being observed by anyone outside the legal profession, is alarmed that there was "virtually no lay oversight, no-one to highlight problems or malpractice".

One was a letter from a member of the bank's four-man lay oversight board, who wrote to Bertone at about the time the cardinal was said to have received La Salvia's complaints of Gotti Tedeschi's "increasingly eccentric behaviour".

As a grand jury investigates the financial irregularities of one Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn and church officials try to recover $1.8 million that was improperly spent by another, diocesan leaders acknowledge that as many as one out of five parishes lack the basic lay oversight of finances required by church law.

"It's quite obvious that the Vatican has no intention of letting go of the control that they want to have over the process, and they really don't want lay involvement or lay oversight," said Linda Pieczynski, spokeswoman for Call to Action, a liberal Catholic reform group.

Mr. Keating's confrontational stance toward the bishops, in tune with the mood of many Catholics when he was appointed one year ago at the height of the scandal, is now seen by some board members as a liability in their efforts to prove the benefits of lay oversight of the bishops' work.

Among the many problems the revisionists face is separating guarded secrets from lost wisdom, lies from oversight.

On one end of that question lies ridiculous oversight and gross injustice, if some significant segment of the population is not, and never has been, represented in leadership.

Or perhaps Jonathan Larson's abiding oversight lay in his reluctance to introduce a horse into proceedings, so as to win - or make that whinny - its way into hearts abroad.

7 A patient in Brazil and a caregiver in the United States initiated this patient led study, raising the question of where ethical oversight lay.

The cardinal reportedly took issue with this body, however, as he did not believe lay people should have oversight over a bishop.Cardinal Egan's homilies bristled with wisdom, but his media-shy disposition meant most local Catholics did not know him very well.