Sentence examples for serious church from inspiring English sources

Where I live is opposite a church, so though only a few of the street are serious Church of England, we all like to go to the carols and the charity sales and each other's Christmas parties.

OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Anglican and Roman Catholic Church leaders are at odds with the British government over Prime Minister David Cameron's contentious plan to legalize same-sex marriage, presaging what some clerics called the most serious church-state rift in centuries.

Muhly told me, "I am quite serious about church music.

Now those stories have been cast into statistics, and the numbers reveal a scandal that was more widespread and more serious than church officials had previously reported.

* In serious cases, church disciplinary councils may be held.

She swung open a set of grand heavy wooden doors into "The Big Cave", a huge barrelling room that was quiet, cool and serious, like a church (my kind of church).

Kimball's experiences impelled his writing of The Miracle of Forgiveness, first published in 1969, which dealt frankly with the serious nature of church standards on sexual morality and counseled church members on avoidance, and repentance, of such problems.

Czech anticlerical feeling precluded the negotiation of a concordat with the papacy until 1928, when an agreement settled the most serious disputes between church and state.

When he was a boy, he told me, his grandmother took him to a "serious Baptist shouting church" in rural South Carolina, where nearly everyone in the pews had been born into bondage.

LONDON — The British government was headed for a bruising showdown on Tuesday with Anglican and Roman Catholic Church leaders over Prime Minister David Cameron's contentious plan to legalize same-sex marriage, presaging what some clerics called the most serious rift between church and state in centuries.

Cardinal Ratzinger then headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which had oversight of the case because Father Murphy was suspected of using the confessional to commit his crimes — a crime that is considered particularly serious under the church's canon law because confession is a sacrament.