Sentences with phrase «after church officials»

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.

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The event, a first in the history of Mexico, where 82 % of the population is Catholic, was only announced by the church after it took place as officials feared people might misinterpret the ritual.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, has officially denied charges of sexual abuse spanning decades after his lawyers failed to sway a court to dismiss them.

After one such meeting in June of 1957, the NY Times quoted a top Vatican official, saying the Church had opened «a new chapter» toward the Jewish community.

After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

Officials have ordered services to halt at the 1,000 - member Xiaying Holy Love megachurch, and demolition work has reportedly already begun after the church refused to tear down the large cross atop its 10 - story building.

Sentenced to death in absentia after the war, Touvier» thanks to a network of sympathizers in the Church, and with the complicity of high - placed government officials» eluded capture until 1989.

After we had both cooled off a bit, he agreed that decisions regarding the use of the church could not properly be made by university officials no matter who owned the property.

Christian leaders said they will reopen the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after Israeli officials... More

What of Church officials who brush aside attempts at reform by claiming that the Church, after all, is not a democracy?

While Morelos's Constitution of Apatzingán was never put into practice, the plan of Iguala (1821), drawn up by Iturbide after independence, also confirmed the official status of Catholicism as the state religion and denied toleration to all other religions.32 The war for independence, in other words, was reasonably conservative in purpose, especially with respect to the church.

During that period, the office was charged with cleaning up after the revelations that church officials protected priests who were accused of molesting young parishioners, particularly in the United States and Europe.

It is, after all, the relation between scientific theories and the official teaching of the Church that decides the question whether a scientist has difficulties in being a Christian believer and a Catholic.

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Steinfels notes that the Protestants studied are in «a church that ordains married men and women; does not condemn contraception, abortion, or remarriage after divorce; is inclusive in its criteria for membership; prides itself on affirming American values; and emphasizes democratic decision making and the laity's right to participate in congregational spending, selecting pastors, and determining official church positions.

Pastor Bao Guohua of Holy Love Christian Church in Jinhua received a sentence of 14 years in prison, and his wife Xing Wenxiang 12 years, after they were convicted of «corruption, financial crimes and gathering people to disturb social order,» according to The New York Times, citing the February 26 Zhejiang Daily, the province's official newspaper.

After talking to various church and government officials in Yugoslavia, I began to understand why Medjugorje has attracted so many people.

The Vatican qualified its support for «Confession: A Roman Catholic App,» on Wednesday, a day after the program's developer announced it was the first app to have official church sanction.

The church received its official charter on February 16, 1801, about five years after several African Americans from New York's John Street Methodist Church had begun holding their own meechurch received its official charter on February 16, 1801, about five years after several African Americans from New York's John Street Methodist Church had begun holding their own meeChurch had begun holding their own meetings.

«What happened at Penn State tonight is a lesson to officials of the Catholic Church,» said Robert M. Hoatson, who leads a New Jersey group that assists abuse victims, in a statement after Wednesday night's firings at Penn State.

Diocese of Buffalo officials assigned the Rev. Fabian J. Maryanski to work in parishes for more than a decade after he was accused of having sexual contact with a teenage girl in a church rectory.

The official announcement will take place in front of Calvary Baptist Church, in Jamaica Queens after the service.

«You could design a facility that would be much easier to operate for the correction officials and it would be safer for the inmates, Cuomo told reporters after a church service in Harlem.

On the evening of 9 June, just hours after nominations for the Labour leadership closed, the New Statesman hosted the first official leadership hustings at Church House in Westminster.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio told congregants at the Promised Land Covenant Church that the president had «a lot of gall» firing off a series of tweets that criticized Yulín Cruz and local Puerto Rican officials after a pair of back - to - back deadly hurricanes.

The suit also alleges the former priest continued his abuse of James C. Doe even after police questioned him about a sexual abuse case in 2005 and church officials ordered him not to have contact with minors.

Ms. Senft was the co-founder of The Safe Haven Network: a church, police, school, and community safety initiative for children in Baltimore City which has provided safe shelters before and after school for children and conflict intervention training and safety skills to community residents and school officials since from 1993 to 2013.