Sentences with phrase «action against bishops»

Vatican officials have so far been reluctant to take action against bishops accused of concealing abuse.

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Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

The hubris has gotten so out of hand, in fact, that one prominent «presumption against war» advocate recently proposed that the Catechism be amended, so that a consensus of bishops, the faithful, and theologians (the last presumably shaping the judgment of the first two) be required for judging a given military action morally legitimate.

Although no further action was taken against the bishop, he could have faced up to two years in prison if convicted of inciting hatred.

Malaysia bans non-Muslim publications from using «Allah,» Episcopal church takes disciplinary action against two conservative bishops, and April issue to be CCM magazine's last.

Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field offered their resignations to Pope Benedict on Christmas Eve only after fighting a rearguard action against the Archbishop of Dublin, Dairmuid Martin, who has pressurised them publicly and privately to quit.

The bishop of the diocese, Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, in a press statement issued in Ado Ekiti dated April 20, threatened to institute a legal action against the government «in the circumstance that any of the schools under my custody is disturbed,» for the payment of education levy.

The Catholic Bishops Conference has asked government to take strict action against the canker of vigilantism, and also deal with the deteriorating activities of land guards and nomadic herdsmen to improve general security in the country.