Sentences with phrase «church hierarchy»

I probably could have risen in the ranks of church hierarchy, written a few books, and been asked to speak at conferences.

However the current efforts by church hierarchy to insert themselves into our political system is disgusting to me.

However, I'm worried about a more aggressive response from church hierarchy, who my landlords report to.

Given that I lean towards the Book of Galatians as the goal of a mature church, then I see male - oriented church hierarchy as a throw - back to immature times.

Even though I disagree with Church hierarchy on a good many issues, I still remain a Catholic.

I am fully convinced I was called to the spiritual Christian walk — what hijacked this very real and loving relationship with my Saviour Christ, was the HUMAN element of patriarchal privilege, EGO and said idol worship (very craftily «jacked» by a spiritual bait n switch) by the narcissistically driven Church hierarchy.

If once upon a time certain church hierarchies were populated with ignorant but faithful clerics, as Burtchaell declares, the story today is too often of sophisticated infidelity in the top echelons of church power.

This is true both in churches where authoritative (and sometimes authoritarian) church hierarchies supposedly have great power to control what happens in the local church, and in decentralized communions in which the local minister has the final say.

So do prayer fellowships and cells, which can be so independent as to unnerve church hierarchies.

But after the many years of protecting pedophiles, it is sad to say we should expect little more from the wealthy church hierarchy.

It may not be a good place to be because I feel as though I don't belong anywhere, but paradoxically I'm now free to belong everywhere and to be honest in my relationship with God, unfettered by church hierarchy who drove a wedge into my faith.

Producers of religious programs within churches have consistently had to fight to convince church hierarchies of the value of mass - media communication.

The omnipotent church hierarchy, led by Christopher Plummer, has become a literal «opiate of the masses,» as Marx once put it.

Topics include: The Medieval Church hierarchy Pilgrimages Why did the Crusades happen?

In the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious tradition.

Doesn't Chaput realize, Reid says, that the stagnation of the Catholic Church in America can be chalked up to «the right wing» like Chaput himself that «has controlled the Church hierarchy for some three decades now»?

If true catholics never questioned the church hierarchy, there would be no Jesuits.

If the church hierarchy were allowed to marry and were on salaries, there is no doubt in my mind that they will change the rule on birth control.

Even if they have an abuse rate that is WAY below the general population, it is irrelevant when the church hierarchy itself is involved in covering it up.

The chief lesson to be learned, Levy argues, was that the Church hierarchy needed to take a more decisive role in the formation of doctrine.

The pope needs to start reforming his office and the church hierarchy and let the sister do the job they were called to do.

We should ask the pope to ensure that every level of the Church hierarchy will proactively seek and condemn anti-Semitism, both within the Church and without.

Compared with Europe, it had no church hierarchy, no aristocracy, no entrenched economic interests, no ingrained distaste for commercial activity.

During my stay in 2011 — 2012, I saw firsthand the gulf between the church hierarchy and the new anti-Putin political movement.

The problem is not «how many» priests are doing it, so much as the church hierarchy covering it up for their own reasons.

The church hierarchy itself, especially the Vatican, is a corrupt, hideously hypocritical organization that does far more harm than good on this planet.

«I do not say this in any way to minimize the abuse of minors by Boston priests, which is heinous, or the serious mistakes made by the Church hierarchy in responding to it,» O'Malley said in the letter.

Of course the church hierarchy blamed me behind closed doors in hushed meetings.

Already by the mid-1990s, ominous signs were coming from the church hierarchy.

Then the church hierarchy under the direction of the bully Pastor harassed me and withheld communion to try changing my decision to the supposed «right» way which was nothing more than her way.

2) The catholic church is to disclose all information of child abuse to US authorities in 30 days — up to and including whether the current pope knew of the abuse of children (which he almost assuredly did given his past roles in the church hierarchy); if this does not happen, the the catholic church loses its tax preferred status indefinitely

And that's not a dodge, it basically means that most of these people don't feel welcome in church, they don't feel like God loves them, so before we even talk about those things — which by the way, the church hierarchy and LGBT Catholics are way far apart on — we have to talk about the basics: i.e. God loves them; God created them this way; etc..

And yet, in my experience, it seems to be almost impossible to get an apology from a fellow christian — and the higher up the church hierarchy they are, the less likely they are to apologise

Corruption claims resulting from the publication of a book based on the leaked documents rocked the Catholic Church hierarchy and could even affect who becomes the next pope.

The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.

Again, the abuse basis is the man that wishes to bully his wife; and the church hierarchy that will not move steadily towards the goal of «neither male nor female».

Compared to the instructions for Passover, Scripture seems awfully cagey on this point which — according to the church hierarchy — is vital for salvation.

Someone from the church hierarchy has finally said something about homosexuality that isn't hostile, harmful, and anti-gay — and it was the pope!

Unfortunately the pope and the rest of the church hierarchy are not being held to the same standards as Penn State officials.

The first thing Christianity did in Africa was to make people surrender their sovereignty to church hierarchies and governments.

When one is the object of persecution, it is difficult to differentiate between militant local priests, Catholic politicians, and the church hierarchy.

The church hierarchy is afraid they won't resign.

The church hierarchy is just as political as any university, non-profit, political party or corporate board room.

The church hierarchy will act in the best interests of their organizational unit, like all such organizations of humans do.

There are plenty of deeply religious Catholics who supported the affordable care act along the lines of social justice too, but the church hierarchy balked, supposedly on relgious (or was it self - interested monetary) reasons?

That alone would provide a tremendous amout of money for these good purposes and also show that the Catholic Church hierarchy is putting THEIR money where their mouth is and provide an excellent example to Christians everywhere.