Sentence examples for sacred congregation from inspiring English sources

The Sacred Congregation comes so close to seeing what is wrong with this.

The first catalog of forbidden books to include in its title the word index, however, was published in 1559 by the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition (a precursor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith).

An archdiocesan spokesman, Father Declan Murphy, said yesterday that the Cardinal continued to take an interest in causes close to his heart but had made a point of not interfering with the work of his successors, William Cardinal Baum, now the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education at the Vatican, and, since 1980, Archbishop James A. Hickey.

Bertone, who was also the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Holy Office), came six years ago to teach at a conference in the Main Hall of the University of Havana.

He contributed to a document that severely criticized the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office and that eventually led to its reorganization by Pope Paul VI (1963 78) as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The various sacred congregations of the Curia are concerned with administrative matters.

Within that institution, moreover, sacred congregations, archdioceses and dioceses, provinces, religious orders and societies, seminaries and colleges, parishes and confraternities, and countless other organizations all invite the social scientist to the consideration of power relations, leadership roles, social dynamics, and other sociological phenomena that they uniquely represent.

Documents from the archives of the Vatican's then-sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes show how a succession of papacies – including that of John XXIII, also to be canonised on Sunday – simply turned a blind eye to credible reports that Maciel was a con artist, drug addict, paedophile and religious fraud.

The authorities knew they would have serious trouble if they killed him, and the Church gave him one more chance to recant, at the upcoming diet — or congregation of officers, sacred and secular — in the cathedral city of Worms in 1521.

I am at a beach near a small cemetery on Captiva Island, the more northern of two barrier islands off the mainland at Fort Myers, Fla., the other being Sanibel, and only a mollusk's throw from the Duck, the beachfront bar where I will join the congregation for the sacred island rite of watching the sun set over the Gulf of Mexico.

Sir J.R. Elvey, the organist, played the National Anthem as the congregation were quitting the sacred building.