Sentence examples for parochial church from inspiring English sources

Parochial church councils may pass resolutions prohibiting women clergy from even being considered for a post.

Pam helped at junior church and ended up sitting on the parochial church council.

He should have handed over the money to the diocese and the parochial church council, the court heard.

Chair of school governors; member, Paddington deanery synod and parochial church council; member, London Family Planning Practitioners Societyy.

He started life as a Christian, attended church regularly, sat on the parochial church council and helped with all the church functions.

St Andrew's parochial church council, which owns the hall, wants to sell the land to fund a home for a new youth minister.

Unlike today, the cardinals had real jurisdiction over the dioceses, parochial churches (called tituli) or deaconries to which they were attached.

The title of cardinal initially concerned only the priests of the 28 parochial churches of the Eternal City (tituli), who were required to assist the pope in the liturgical service in the four Basilicas of Rome (Vatican Basilica, Liberian Basilica, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls and San Lorenzo fuori le Mura).

However, originally the College of Cardinals was simply a college of the clergy of the City of Rome, constituted of the bishops of the seven dioceses (called suburbicarian sees) bordering the diocese of Rome (cardinal-bishops), priests of the parochial churches of Rome (cardinal-priests) and deacons heading the ecclesiastical regions of the city of Rome (cardinal-deacons).

In colloquially vivid language, Dybek's lone narrator, Perry Katzek, a young Polish-American, recalls his endearing clan and his coming-of-age in a neighborhood long abandoned by James T. Farrell's Irish, but still filled with bars, bad guys, parochial schools, churches and factories.

Like those of Studs Lonigan or Danny O'Neill, the central characters in many of Farrell's stories (a selection titled "Chicago Stories" was published in 1998), Perry's childhood, adolescence and young manhood are charted against the backdrop of a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of bars, bad guys, parochial schools, churches and factories.