Sentences with phrase «become parochial»

Much of an MP's work has become parochial and it is very often in the Westminster Hall adjournment debates that issues which may not grip the commentariat but are of genuine interest and importance to the real lives of real people are raised.

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

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Most parochial schools have sponsorship programs in which adults can become big brothers or big sisters, staying in regular and supportive contact with particular students.

The tension becomes frustratingly evident, he adds, in the efforts of those on the ground who «want to pursue the local but then begin to lose their nerve because they feel they're becoming too parochial — people of initiative, people of courage, pastors and local communities, who try to pursue the agenda of inculturation nevertheless looking over their shoulder all the time wondering when they're going to be asked or called to account.»

Nonetheless, it is true that there are incompatible theological ideologies abroad in the Church at the moment, which have often become, falsely, attached to particular liturgical movements with their attendant catechesis and parochial practice.

He reflects a most parochial view of religion in New York City where, he says, «dead churches are gutted to make nightclubs, supermarkets, and, especially, condominiums, in which the vaulted ceilings above the sanctuary became a valued selling point.»

In my lifetime it has become more rigid, parochial, and punitive.

Catholic higher education will cease to be genuinely higher studies if it does not engage the challenges; it would become merely an extension of a parochial enterprise, confirming what some catechists have long sought and what many suspicious secularists have long believed.

In England there are also numerous church schools, which in the first half of the nineteenth century almost became a national parochial school system, and which still give many of the clergy a definite place in the general educational system of the country.

For one thing our preaching and worship will authentically reflect the cries of the people for justice and our church structures will become catalysts for strengthening the struggle for all people and not just ghettos that preserve our narrow parochial interest — they truly become the salt of the earth.

Over 28 minutes, Schumer said he was honored to be at the cusp of becoming the Senate's majority leader and promised, as he has previously, that he'll still be around to help with parochial matters.

While he received massive support from across the country to become President, he is by his appointments, presenting himself as a parochial, sectional leader.

It has become fashionable in the age of county executive government to demean the old legislature as myopic, dysfunctional, parochial and ineffective.

Suddenly, parochial Ireland holds opportunity and appeal to this lady, who becomes slow to reply to Tony's letters from New York.

Justices Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and John Paul Stevens were unlikely to find the law constitutional, and Breyer may have tipped his hand when he observed, rather whimsically, that parochial schools may become increasingly unconstitutional the more they outshine their public - school counterparts.

In the early 1800s, parochial schools — those affiliated with parishes — emerged and became the foundation for Catholic elementary schools.

The New Jersey Association of School Librarians advocates for high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private and parochial schools, in the State of New Jersey, to ensure that students and staff become effective users of information.

NJASL advocates high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private, and parochial schools in New Jersey to ensure that students and staff become effective users of information.

Outsourcing the parochial know - how was never a serious option and the trend currently is more toward on - shoring in this regard, but essentially primary sources are becoming more freely available, support staff powered by PLC are better at getting front line negotiators up to speed than librarians ever could be and GCs preach penury but practice recruitment.