Sentence examples for that a parish from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere, it was reported that a parish priest had died after his church collapsed.

Updike's parish of sympathies is unusually wide, but it must remain that, a parish.

While it probably soon became clear that a parish is akin to a county, one word that may have caused a lot of head-scratching is usufruct.

But in a 2011 trial, lawyers for the animal defense fund showed that a parish law that was on the books in 2006 prohibited keeping exotic animals and argued that he should not have been exempted from the new law.

He said it was fitting that a parish that served one immigrant group at the start of the 20th century would serve another at the start of the 21st.

Hoping to make a politically convenient marriage with Marie-Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria, Napoleon in January 1810 arranged for the nullification of his 1804 marriage on the grounds that a parish priest had not been present at the ceremony.

But Francis' emphasis on attention to the poor, and a style that is more akin to that of a parish priest, albeit one with one billion parishioners, is already transforming perceptions.

So the confidence votes turned into something like a two-day wake, with Mr. Prodi — whose sober and high-minded demeanor is often compared to that of a parish priest — presiding over his own government's funeral.

In New York, the pope is scheduled to meet with other religious leaders at a parish that has not yet been named publicly.

Monasteries, the primary source of poor relief, were dissolved by the Tudors Reformation causing poor relief to move from a largely voluntary basis to a compulsory tax that was collected at a parish level.

I was at a parish recently that would be considered pretty traditional liturgically, and the place was packed with mostly young people, which was fascinating to me.