Sentence examples for minor church from inspiring English sources

Two years later Blandrata was back in Poland, where he became an influential elder in the Minor Church, an anti-Trinitarian organization.

Yet aside from a minor church renovation in Rome, he never fulfilled his ambitions as an architect and is still known mainly as an engraver.

Last June in Dallas, where American bishops passed a manifesto committing themselves to remove any priest who had ever sexually abused a minor, church officials again expressed optimism that their efforts would restore faith and quell the restiveness among the laity.

Historians suggest that although Henry VII later paid for a monument over Richard's grave – destroyed in the dissolution of the monasteries when the ruins were stripped of anything saleable, including what was probably a splendid monument for the mystery man – he may have hoped that in a minor church in a provincial town the last Plantaganet would soon be forgotten.

Before his marriage in May, the archbishop was a relatively minor church figure who had finally been forced out of his Vatican job last year after decades of inside-the-walls unhappiness over his exorcisms and healings, both in his native Zambia and in Italy.

The police here have arrested two New Jersey priests, including the former head of a Roman Catholic high school for boys, and charged them with soliciting sex from minors, church officials in Newark said today.

Although the damage was minor, the church remained closed until 1992 while restoration was carried out.

The minor orders represented church services rendered by persons not ordained.

While older residents in overcoats and berets go to Mass at the church, minor celebrities and affluent teenagers sip lattes, all within sight of the damaged arch.

Last April a grand jury in York County, S.C., indicted one priest, the Rev. Juan Carlos Castano, on a charge of performing a lewd act on a minor, but the church itself is not under investigation by a grand jury in South Carolina.

Precisely because, unlike the diatonic major and minor scales, the church modes are fundamentally impervious to the dictates of Western harmony, they continue to be useful referents in the analysis of any number of folk music strains, including that of the Anglo-American ballad.