The main-line clergy also pointed out that the audiences for these programs consisted mainly of women over forty-five in relatively low income brackets.
The main-line clergy — who worried a great deal about this use of television — insisted upon the minority status of these evangelists, and pointed to ratings showing that Oral Roberts reached only two per cent of American households each week and that most of them, including Robertson, Bakker, and Falwell, reached less than one per cent.
Similarly specific state-of-England plays were led by Hare's Racing Demon (1990), its main characters bishops and clergy of the C of E, the country's established but increasingly unworshipped church.
The leader has wide powers over the judiciary, the military, the security forces and, effectively, over the legions of volunteer militias that have been the main enforcers of the clergy's puritanical rules of dress and behavior.
What's more, under pressure from Chief Rabbi Amar, the main association of Orthodox clergy in the United States, the Rabbinical Council of America, is establishing its own regional rabbinic courts for conversion.
Bishops alone have the right to confirm and ordain members of the clergy, and their main duty is to supervise the clergy within their diocese.
Martin was a parish priest, so when we married my main work was as a clergy wife and mother.
There were two areas, however, in which the nobility enjoyed important institutional privileges: the upper ranks of the army and the clergy were, in the main, aristocratic preserves and had become more so in the 1780s.
Instead, they chose Severino Cavalcanti, a leader of Congress's rapacious "low clergy", the unsung backbenchers whose main aim is to funnel pork to their districts.Mr Cavalcanti is from the conservative Progressive Party, a nominal government ally.
The leader of the main organization representing victims of sexual abuse by clergy members worked yesterday to salvage the possibility that he and other victims might address the nation's Roman Catholic bishops this week at their meeting in Dallas.
