Sentence examples for pastoral duties from inspiring English sources

The Rev. Tonya Vickery of Cullowhee Baptist Church in Cullowhee, N.C., said she and her co-pastor husband split parenting and pastoral duties between them, with each of them baptizing one of their two daughters.

There are pastoral duties and community outreach as well, but half the members are retired.

Father Hullermann was given therapy in Munich, but he was allowed to resume his pastoral duties almost immediately.

On Friday, a deputy took responsibility for allowing the priest to return to full pastoral duties shortly afterward.

Following the discussion of "De Ecclesia", the Council will take up the revised schema entitled "The Pastoral Duties of Bishops".

Gregory did not, however, neglect his practical and pastoral duties, as is attested by his preserved letters and sermons.

But it is another pastoral duty for our schools to perform.

They bristle at the notion that you can evade the rules by separating pastoral duty from doctrinal truth.

He claimed that priests were permitted to return to pastoral duty only when the institution recommended it despite evidence of known offenders working within the church.

But church commentators said the archbishop's remarks largely reflected a 1998 directive from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops declaring that church leaders had a pastoral duty to "persuade, correct and admonish" elected leaders who supported abortion rights so that they might undergo a "change of heart".

It is both our prophetic and pastoral duty to speak.