Sentence examples for lay state from inspiring English sources

In Catholic theology, ordaining a priest creates an indelible mark; to return him to the lay state required the approval of the pope.

Those who see in Frederick the forerunner of the modern lay state (Jacob Burckhardt and Hermann Kantorowicz) condemn the universalistic claims of the Pope.

Ms. Robinson also said that the church should return all the priests in Thursday's settlement who are still alive to the lay state.

He said that over the past decade, 848 priests had been defrocked, or returned to the lay state by the pope.

Nor did priests much like the way Paul VI's compassionate legislation allowing priests to return to the lay state was arbitrarily set aside.

"Changing this one fact will not have any bearing on the court's ruling or on its penalty that Mr. Kavanagh be removed from the priesthood and returned to the lay state".

Bernanke made it immediately clear where his loyalties lay, stating, "My first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies during the Greenspan years".

"They are flat-out lying," State Representative John W. Rogers Jr., the Democratic co-leader of the county's delegation, said of the county's financial assessments.

Spontaneous decay from a state to a lower lying state at a rate is modeled by the jump operator.

Once considered politically out of bounds, the word "lie" — stated bluntly and unapologetically — has had its unveiling in the 2008 campaign.

In particular when investigating larger molecules all of the lower lying states are hfs.