Sentences with phrase «american prelate»

«If a loving and stable family can bring consolation and encouragement to just one other family, the effect on the Church and the world is tremendous,» said the American prelate.

The straight - talking American prelate lamented the fact that while the Second Vatican Council had «called for a renewal of the sacrament of penance», what emerged «sadly, in many places, was the disappearance of the sacrament».

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Italian teenagers knelt prayed next to elderly nuns in full habit; Vatican prelates and Roman citizens surrounded American seminarians and students.

Was this one of the American «culture war bishops,» as commentators have termed them, that collection of prelates driven by hate, anger, and power?

As I once said to a prelate of the Roman curia who was complaining about theological dissent in the United States: «American theologians are not very original.