Sentence examples for this clergy from inspiring English sources

The C of E's position is this: clergy are permitted to enter into same-sex civil partnerships, so long as they give assurances that the relationship is celibate.

The priesthood was a subsequent tweak, and the same goes for the all-male, celibate nature of the Roman Catholic clergy and the autocratic hierarchy that this clergy inhabits, an unresponsive government whose subjects — the laity — have limited say.

Hugh also worked to improve the educational level of this clergy, even refusing to allow some candidates to benefices to be installed because of their lack of education.

In addition, we will look for ways to band together, with those who value community care and justice, like CCDA CEO and former Christianity21 speaker Noel Castellanos and others did in this Clergy Letter to the Mayor, Police, and Community of Ferguson.

Canon law was central in this, and the clergy pioneered in administration, justice and consent.

And so, seven years after everything was lost, and thanks to the Pope's delight in a show that happily trafficked in adultery and the shifty morals of the clergy — this in the same year that Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther — Machiavelli at last came into Medici favor, and everything was more or less regained.

It's true that the youth in the streets won't remember the 1979 Iranian Revolution, but the people who can truly make or break this revolution, the clergy and the political class, do, and if even a small number of them were turned off by President Obama's rhetoric, should he decide to speak, it could end disastrously.

For anyone outside the clergy, this seems too freighted.

In taking this trip, the clergy also hope to honor the memories of those whose lives were lost in Newtown, and the thousands of other victims of gun violence in our communities.

John Paul had little time for this: he kept an iron grip on the clergy, and this has stirred an immense longing, especially in the developing world, for more freedom at local level.But how might the bishops use that freedom?

In this transformation, clergy have seen their job descriptions rewritten.