Sentence examples for proper church from inspiring English sources

As a heretic he could not be given a proper church burial.

Whitney made a note to ask Tess if the marriage license indicated a proper church wedding or a courthouse quickie.

Mass was said in the school basement or auditorium until there was money to erect a proper church.

The first was on Rev (BBC2), where Adam has been asked by two friends, Rob and Jeremy, to officiate at a "proper church wedding" in St Saviour.

Buried in their publicly declared loyalty to "proper church teaching" was an ungodly discrimination grounded in petty localisms, economic class and social insecurity.

The Diocese of Gloucester said all proper church processes "must continue to be followed".

Mr. Palmer's suspicions regarding the building's Christian origin were heightened when, climbing a hill overlooking the pagoda, he realized that the entire site was laid out, not on the north-south axis traditional for Chinese temples, but rather facing east, as befits a proper Christian church.

These strict rules of social behavior were preserved in the utopian communities of the 19th century -- Amana, Brook Farm, New Harmony and many more -- rules about eating ice cream in the streets, proper clothing, church attendance, sex and the correct way to ride a bicycle.

This development contributed to contemporary understandings of the proper relationship between church and state and even to understandings of the church itself; it also led to controversy between later emperors and popes over the matter of universal authority in Christendom.

You talk about Muslims needing a better understanding of the proper relationship between church and state.

Kennedy's famous 1960 campaign speech on the proper relation between church and state in American politics.