Sentences with phrase «actual number of churches»

My view on the actual number of churches that ban homosexuals was warped because those churches get far more attention.

Not exact matches

Before the actual thesis regarding the essential limits of the official Church in influencing life in the concrete can be stated, even in respect of the knowledge necessary to such an influence (and not merely in respect of the factual attainment of such knowledge), a number of preliminary considerations are necessary.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

Yet in both labor unions and churches, the official group pronouncements are on a higher level of insight than the actual practices of great numbers of their membership.