Sentences with phrase «by prelates»

In fact, the Catholic school system was launched by prelates worried that the public system had been overtaken by Protestants — and was out to get them.

Unfortunately, unimpressed by the prelate's mirth, the organization soon pulled the spot off the air.

The recent endorsement of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for a second term in office by the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, His...

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Guo had been earlier asked by the Vatican to step aside for a prelate approved by China's Communist government.

According to the prelate, the church attack has caused alarm among the local community, as the mainly Christian south of Nigeria has not suffered from the terror attacks carried out in the north by Boko Haram.

To the consternation of some bishops here, members of the Board arranged on their own to consult with leading prelates in the Roman Curia and were greatly heartened by the understanding and encouragement they received.

Was this one of the American «culture war bishops,» as commentators have termed them, that collection of prelates driven by hate, anger, and power?

The second work which helps balance the deficiencies of Ericksen's otherwise valuable volume is The Catholic Bishops of Europe and the Nazi Persecutions of Catholics and Jews by Vincent Lapomarda, S.J., which recounts the courage and compassion of prominent Catholic prelates who resisted Nazism.

But the idea that Francis is looking for ways to rationalize and effectively permit sin, either by deferring his authority to controversial prelates or under the guise of avoiding rigorism in favor of mercy, runs counter to his larger witness.

He doesn't waffle in the «bishopese» favoured by other prelates (eg, «today we cherish our gathered - ness as a community»).

What can hardly be denied is that Archbishop Nichols is a good deal more inclined to support the authority of Rome than once he was; and it is not only The Tablet which has observed the shift with some scepticism: he was until very recently (and perhaps still is) regarded by many in Rome as one who in Birmingham behaved as an orthodox pope - supporting prelate should in order to get to Westminster.

Think of the coronations in the United Kingdom, where the civil head of state is crowned in Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury attended by all the prelates of the church, in a centuries - old religious ceremony replete with choirs, trumpet fanfares and processionals, seen and heard worldwide by millions on radio and television.

That placing of the free churches first by an Anglican prelate will not be forgotten.

He wrote to prelates about the matter, and «I published my theses, inviting learned men and them alone to discuss them with me... By a miracle which astounded me more than anyone, these theses were spread through almost the entire world», even though, being academic theses, the text was dense and summary.

Well, if Mannix set the twentieth - century pattern for Catholic prelates Down Under, George Pell will be regarded by historians as the man who set the pattern for the twenty - first century.

With the enhancement of the dignity of the bishop and the extension of his judicial authority under the patronage of the Empire, the old cathedra upon which the ante-Nicene bishop had sat in his capacity as teacher, was gradually converted into a veritable throne, imitative of that of the emperor.25 It is quite possible that the courtly protocol and the sartorial details of the so - called Donation of Constantine are a reasonably accurate description of the dress, insignia, and prerogatives of the chief bishop of the West in the late imperial period, that even the account of the bestowal of these privileges primarily errs in fictionally ascribing to one emperor what was probably done by several in the course of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that once the fictional monopolization of these prerogatives by one bishop is removed, the Donation is recognized as supplying us with a picture of a late imperial prelate.26

Catholic prelates, driven by fundamental belief, have threatened to excommunicate Catholic politicians who do not toe the line on this great debate.

I am clearly disappointed by the response from the right reverent Prelate the Bishop of Bradford, but I hear his argument.

Farthing has to rush across a vast ocean and a huge continent carried by an incredible Sea Dragon and accompanied by a strange magician if he has even a chance to save his sister Rustina.And very strangely, neither the rich Prelate nor his chief of police seem keen to even lift a finger.Dirt, the first book in a huge, continent spanning saga where dragons are an intel...

The statue of St. Peter towers over prelates attending a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the Sunday of Divine Mercy, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 8, 2018.