Sentences with phrase «by clergy in»

[16] The games themselves feature a number of religious overtones — saving the game (in later games) and reviving characters who have died is performed by clergy in churches.

(A call for a Public Inquiry into abuse of children and vulnerable adults by Clergy in England and Wales.)

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

If you are surprised at the level of abuse of children by clergy in a country like the US which has a highly developed police and legal system to handle such crimes, consider how high the abuse probably is in less developed countries like those of South America.

Not exact matches

These matters are now in the hands of the new Central Committee, which is still dominated by Western clergy even after the formulaic elections, and the Geneva - based staff.

Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

But the preponderance of child seex abuse in this country is not perpetrated by gays or clergy.

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.

Praxiology theology was founded by Karl Marx and one third of the Catholic clergy in the world are praxiologians who defend and follow it.

Cardinals appointed by the former pope to find the source of the leaks investigated high - level Vatican clergy involved in homosexual affairs who might have been vulnerable to blackmail, according to La Repubblica, a leading Italian newspaper.

Of the other accused clergy not named, 22 faced unsubstantiated accusations, four were not in active ministry and face preliminary investigation, and three were already out of the ministry by their own volition or dismissal and never were publicly accused, O'Malley's letter said.

In a statement read out by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 % of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominationIn a statement read out by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 % of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominationin September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 % of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominationin the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 % of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominationin s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominations.

This finding is most clearly illustrated by the high degree of dissatisfaction expressed by United Methodist clergy in relation to their denomination's deployment systems and the level of support they received from judicatory officials.

Experiencing the same personal crises faced by professionals in all fields, clergy often find themselves with very few shoulders to cry on.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Allegations of s — exual abuse by clergy have been made in many countries (see Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country).

The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge cases of sexual abuse committed by the clergy.

A false perception has often been created (either by sensationalist commentary, or lazily prejudiced comments by stand - up comedians and others), that sexual abuse is wide - spread throughout the Clergy, and in some way a particularly Catholic problem.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

The February decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (EECMY) to terminate its 150 - year partnership with the Church of Sweden (CoS) and its 50 - year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) comes after the EECMY tried — and failed — to persuade the other two bodies to reverse recent decisions to ordain gay clergy and bless same - sex unions.

Of course evils have been wrought by the Catholic clergy, in Australia and elsewhere.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

His office has receivedrequests for copies of the document from dioceses in the United States, Canada, Australia, France (interesting), and Malta following a public endorsement by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, who sent Bishop O'Donoghue the Congregation's congratulations on his «courageous examination of the state of evangelisation and catechesis in the diocese of Lancaster's schools and colleges» and for developing a positive programme for action in harmony with the «operative Magisterial documents».

«The Church, understandably concerned not to repeat the mistakes of the past when it had been too slow to recognise that abuse had been perpetrated by clergy and to recognise the pain and damage caused to victims, has in effect oversteered in this case.

Catholics, for example, believe that grace is primarily communicated in the sacraments administered by a sacramentally ordained clergy.

Every year the Queen marks Maundy by offering alms to senior citizens - retired pensioners recommended by clergy and ministers of all denominations - in recognition of service to the Church and to the local Community.

It is because their clergy really had been given an apparently well - founded hope that they would be able to «cross the Tiber» with their people (possibly under provisions made by Pope John Paul for the reception of whole Anglican parishes in America): and because of the sense of massive betrayal they felt when some of our bishops confronted Cardinal Hume, who had originally been inclined to respond positively, and forced him to back down.

But sermons, although delivered by the clergy, are aimed at the laity, so I dipped in.

CSW said in 2005, the centre was raided by security agents during a Council Synod meeting, and all the clergy on the Council were arrested.

Most of the Anglo - Catholic clergy who stayed in their ghetto did so because of their refusal to leave their people behind: asone Anglican priest who had attempted to take his Parish to Rome and had been repulsed by his local Catholic bishop put it to me, the essential was that «Rome has got to have a more creative view of the corporate nature of our present existence».

Please note also that these words are seldom read in church, even less seldom preached on by the clergy unless allegorized in a wild and irrelevant exegetical exercise.

and for him to ban religious thought, speech and clergy is just wrong and he will be remembered for doing the wrong thing in this serious memorial to a horrible tragedy done to our country by terrorists!

It was, it will be remembered, received with great acclaim in Rome, among others by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, who said that his outfit had «studied the document with great interest and hopes it will become an example for other Dioceses in the country in their implementation of the General Directory for Catechesis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.»

In 2013, Pastor McBride was selected as the # 9 Top Clergy Leader to Watch in the US by the Center for American ProgresIn 2013, Pastor McBride was selected as the # 9 Top Clergy Leader to Watch in the US by the Center for American Progresin the US by the Center for American Progress.

This does not in any way negate the John Jay statistics that prove the Catholic Church had a serious problem with sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy.

Historian Daniel Howe observes that the Unitarian clergy fomented considerable dissent in Massachusetts against the U. S. annexation of Texas by portraying the Texans as irresponsible speculators who had entered Mexico at their own risk.

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

In order to appropriately assign the blame for the state of the «church» we must see - through the clever psychological side - step that's been used by pastors and clergy for centuries to deflect their personal responsibility for the sad state of affairs within Chrisendom.

A school whose concrete identity is that of a church - like community tending to understand God by way of contemplation is likely to include more course work in spirituality, especially ascetical theology, than is a school whose ethos is that of a cadre of clergy tending to understand God by the activist way.

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

In keeping with that theme, our post for the Thursday Is for Thinkers series will be contributed by Jack Lumanog, the Clergy Formation Advisor for the Anglican Mission in the AmericaIn keeping with that theme, our post for the Thursday Is for Thinkers series will be contributed by Jack Lumanog, the Clergy Formation Advisor for the Anglican Mission in the Americain the Americas.

And for those who think we need to always be guided by clergy; I have found that many times it was my fellow parishioners that helped me grow in faith.

But in view of these declarations of the Council it has to be stressed that such active cooperation in tasks which belong primarily to the clergy can be satisfactorily achieved only if it is furnished also with corresponding rights, which must be established by law and not left to the good pleasure of individual bishops and parish priests.

Laypeople reading Scripture lessons, serving in choirs, providing instrumental music, and performing various liturgical tasks announce that the life of this congregation and its leadership are shared by clergy and laity.

The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?

Next to the role of prophetic guide to justice in community, no role is so neglected by clergy as prophetic guide to education.

One year (4 units) of clinical pastoral education in community mental health, or its equivalent as defined by national certifying clergy organizations professionally concerned with community mental health and community action.

My preliminary research into Hartshorne's concept of God resulted in an article published in The Clergy Review which was a response to a criticism of him by Brian Davies, a British Thomist scholar.14 It appeared to me that Hartshorne's critics failed to see that his claims about God had to be seen within the context of his metaphysics.

In addition, the Catholic Church's handling of priest pedophilia was hindered by its long - standing labor shortage, a self - inflicted wound resulting from an unwillingness to ordain married and female clergy.