Sentence examples for smaller church from inspiring English sources

Benedict himself said before his elevation to the papacy that a smaller Church might be a better Church.

Now, the smaller church is being used for religious-education classes.

He plans to build a 70-unit apartment building, and the congregation will erect a smaller church on the site.

Although his cast of 23 is significantly smaller, Church admits to a certain apprehension about the scale of the project.

His point: "Quite frankly I believe, as Pope Benedict the XVIth said just before he became pope, that maybe a smaller church would be a better church".

Unravelling the church's established status would be complex and time-consuming: it took parliament 70 years to disestablish the much smaller church in Wales.

They prefer smaller, church-run camps, but these are less well-resourced.

Many smaller churches are refashioned as single-family homes.

Some smaller churches are already moving including in Australia and New Zealand.

But he also designed or supervised the design of 51 smaller churches.

Father Hoagland proposed closing some of the smaller churches in the area and consolidating the parishes.