Sentences with phrase «former head of a church»

As a former head of a church, I objected to this idea during Prof. Mills» tenure, and I am adding my voice now to the people who are objecting to this idea by telling government to stop it... Lets allow religious groups to do whatever they want to do, but government should concentrate on its mandate by providing jobs and putting up infrastructural developments with such monies,» he admonished.

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Transition team member the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, a former vice-president of the National Council of Churches [and now head of the NAACP], explained why with one word.

(CNN)- Don't expect a lot of shuffleboard games for the soon - to - be former Bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter, Head of the College of Bishops, Vicar of Christ and Pastor of the Universal Church: Pope Benedict XVI.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

A newspaper has now revealed the former head of the Catholic Church in Scotland is living in a bungalow bought by his predecessor Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Leo Cushley.

The service was led by the Rev. James Forbes Jr., one of the country's most influential black preachers and former head of the historic church.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose NY Uprising PAC dubbed lawmakers «enemies» of reform if they declined to sign his redistricting, budget and ethics reform pledges last year; former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose NY Uprising PAC dubbed lawmakers «enemies» of reform if they declined to sign his redistricting, budget and ethics reform pledges last year; former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez López.

We'll explore the Basillica Cathedral for a glimpse of the city's former glory or, for something different you could head to the Iglesia de San Francisco (Church of San Francisco) and take a look at its famous catacombs.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the disgraced former head of the Roman Catholic church in Scotland who died last month, asked in his will for forgiveness from those he offended.

That's led to unorthodox hires such as Tommy Davis, a former spokesman and head of external relations for the Church of Scientology.