Sentences with phrase «by clerics»

His lawyer Robert Richter told Wallington in his final submissions two weeks ago that the complainants might have testified against one of the church's most powerful men to punish him for failing to act against abuse by clerics.

It is a massive cult organized and controlled by clerics for their financial gain.

So actions of lying, murder against unbeliever have been justified by clerics within their faith.

Although it was staffed by clerics and religious (appointed by the Crown), and its creation was approved by Sixtus V in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition was often criticised by popes and bishops.

After the words of power have been spoken by this cleric, the practitioners of this religion who wish to participate in the rite are invited forward.

The practitioners are invited to eat the food that has been blessed by the cleric, but are cautioned once again that if they are unworthy to eat this food, God may strike them dead.

If you have a state like Iran that is governed by clerics and a constitution that defines itself as an Islamic state, then it matters to the state,» he said.

The University was governed by a Board of Trustees consisting mainly of bishops and was managed by clerics chosen by that Board.

As Rocco Palmo notes, «possession of child porn by a cleric now falls under the canonical crimes of sex abuse and, on discovery, must be reported by a bishop to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

I have to conclude that you object to the «collectivism» because it is secular and not run by a cleric?

In a refugee claim certified by the Immigration and Refugee Board just days before the court ruling on refugee health care, Sam relates how he was chased and shot by a cleric and two others who demanded he convert to Islam.

«With a great sense of pain and shame, it must be acknowledged that within the Christian community, innocent young people were abused by clerics,» a high - level Catholic Church committee found.

The «god» who is «served» by this cleric is diametrically opposite to the real God, creator and savior.