Sentence examples for shrinking church from inspiring English sources

This is, of necessity, a long-term project, and it may also be an admission that, in a shrinking church and an increasingly secular culture, shorter-term projects are unlikely to succeed.

But for Katharine Jefferts Schori, since 2006 the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, memories of Curaçao will always be associated with the controversy that greeted her upon her return — another controversy in what has already been a rocky tenure as the head of a troubled, shrinking church.

I am surprised how much space you gave to criticism of the Roman Catholic Church in your articles "Tremors for a shrinking church" and "Pope's visit to U.K. comes to a close" in your Sept. 20th edition.

I've come to look forward to our meetings every three weeks in the same way that others depend on their shrinks, church or "American Idol".

After centuries of regional dominance, the denomination has been shrinking: last year, the church reported fewer than three hundred thousand baptisms, the lowest number in more than half a century, and a decline of about a third since the peak, in 1972.

As U.S. Catholic congregations shrink and churches close, deaccessioned relics are finding their way onto Ebay.

The Church is shrinking in Europe and the U.S., but Ratzinger calls for an internal purification of the Church.

"We're working 16 hours a day trying to save the planet, and the church is shrinking".

There is a realization that the church is shrinking and will continue to do so if nothing changes.

Some opponents to women bishops, when not selectively quoting bits of the Bible, argue that congregations are shrinking because the Anglican church has become too feminised.

Given that the Church is shrinking in the United States and Europe, Boyer suggests that Ratzinger's choice of papal name was telling: "One of the Benedictines' mottoes is Succisa virescit — 'Pruned, it grows again.' " Ratzinger, Boyer writes, regarded the shrinking of the Church with an "air of determined acceptance," and with the hope that a more orthodox Church will be stronger in the future.