Sentence examples for of consecrated from inspiring English sources

Loretta Matulich, a consecrated virgin from Oregon City, Ore., and president of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins, said there were at least 100 consecrated virgins in the United States, up from about 20 in 1995.

"In popular American culture, the word 'virginity' is not attractive," said Bishop Raymond L. Burke of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., the moderator of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins.

In a statement yesterday from its provincial headquarters in Baltimore, Sister Gramick's order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, said that another Vatican body, the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Faith, recently clarified the original directive.

The other congregations are those for the Oriental Churches, for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, for the Causes of Saints, for the Evangelization of Peoples, for the Clergy, for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, for Catholic Education, and for Bishops.

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives for a meeting with religious for the conclusion of the Year of Consecrated Life at Paul VI audience hall on February 1, 2016 at the Vatican.

December 2008: The Vatican's office that oversees religious orders — the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life — launches a parallel review of all women's orders in the U.S. because of reports about "a certain secularist mentality that has spread among these religious families, perhaps even a certain 'feminist spirit.'".

During a meeting of the Council, Philip accused the Amfissian Locrians of intruding on consecrated ground.

Conservatives, by contrast, are in danger of consecrating the present.

The emotional logic of consecrating that space is apparent, but there will be a historical logic as well.

The primate of Numidia, Secundus of Tigisi, who had acquired in the previous 40 years the right of consecrating the bishop of Carthage, arrived in Carthage with 70 bishops and in solemn council declared Caecilian's election invalid.

But it issued decrees on many other matters, including the proper method of consecrating bishops, a condemnation of lending money at interest by clerics, and a refusal to allow bishops, priests, and deacons to move from one church to another.