Sentence examples for matters of sin from inspiring English sources

He took journalists to task for reporting on the matter, saying the allegations concerned matters of sin, not crimes such as sexually abusing children.

He forthrightly and fearlessly confronted matters of sin, sexuality and immorality in a deeply personal manner.

But he took journalists to task for reporting on the matter, saying the allegations concerned matters of sin, not crimes like sexually abusing children.

For them it was not only a matter of sin and morality, but one of pounds, shillings and pence.

Even when people agree that an outcome is desirable, they may disagree on whether it should be treated as a matter of preference and prudence or as a matter of sin and virtue.

The papal court became the court of last appeal, and the assertion of papal jurisdiction even into secular matters "by reason of sin" (ratio peccati) greatly expanded papal authority and sometimes led to conflicts with secular powers.

At the same time, the officials' reluctance to defrock a sex abuser shows that on a doctrinal level, the Vatican has tended to view the matter in terms of sin and repentance more than crime and punishment.

Our Prophet never turned away anyone wishing to to hear truth away, no matter their state of sin.

Now we learn the sickening news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed "God's Rottweiler" when he was the church's enforcer on matters of faith and sin, ignored repeated warnings and looked away in the case of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, a Wisconsin priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys.

In LeDuff's case, the inflated prose is an expression of personality; with Hedges, the son of a Presbyterian minister, it's a matter of homiletics, a vision of sin and salvation.

"If there really were such a thing as sin, and there was a finite amount of it in the world, and it was the aggregate amount of sin that mattered rather than any individual's contribution, and indulgences really did reduce aggregate sin, then indulgences would have been a perfectly sensible idea," Roberts has written, mirroring similar claims made by others sympathetic to offsetting.