Sentences with phrase «admitted by the clergy»

This may not seriously be admitted by the clergy but it is true.

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Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

Positively, he concerned himself with the education of priests in Italy, exhorted clergy the world over to aspire to what he set forth as the standard for the perfect parish priest, encouraged frequent, even daily Communion by the laity, urged that children be admitted to that sacrament as soon as they understood the simple doctrines of the Church, stressed Christian marriage and family life, had the breviary reworked to make it more useful and to ensure the recitation of the whole Psalter each week, and enjoined devotion to Mary.

The Diocese of Buffalo announced it would be set up a voluntary program to compensate victims of clergy sexual abuse, after a retired priest admitted in an interview with the Buffalo News that he'd had sexual contact with dozens of boys and was sent by the diocese to a treatment facility in Canada.