Sentences with phrase «given by clergy»

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Scores of people — moms and dads, aunts and uncles, clergy and friends — waited on one side of a ballroom divided by a rollaway partition while witnesses gave statements to detectives and FBI agents on the other side.

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.»

Different answers are given to these questions by clergy, scholars, field - workers and students.

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.

After a while, I realized that all the stuff I was so sure I KNEW was given to me wholesale by family, friends, and clergy who all believed it because it was told to them by someone else, and this here book said the same stuff.

In a preface to one of his books, a former bishop of Paisley, Stephen McGill, recalled a retreat given by him to clergy years before, in the strength of which he felt certain he had been stepping out briskly on the paths of the Lord.

And it is, as it had been a hundred years earlier, largely the work of clergy and religiously active lay educators, who find themselves opposed by church officials and some tendentious colleagues who give every sign of being intellectually cramped and authoritarian.

Then, this spring, came a systematic series of attacks on the Church - given massive force by the Internet - with co-ordinated media stories purporting to show the Holy Father's failure to grapple with the problem of sexual abuse by the clergy, and across websites and blogs, and leader articles and opinion - columns, came calls for his resignation.

Chapter three would urge the church to give its wealth away to the needy; clergy should live on free - will offerings or support themselves by secular work.

There the Catholic clergy were largely corrupt and gave an impression of the faith represented by their Church which provoked criticism.

Is there any evidence that those at the top of the game have grown more attuned to the fact that a football does not exist in its corporate entity but exists as an entity given character by its fans; a church defined by its congregation, not its clergy?

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

Bronx, NY — New York State Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz, together with Mr. Edward Cox, Chairman of the New York State Republican Party, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, Councilmember Rafael Salamanca and The New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, will be celebrating Christmas in The Bronx by giving free toys to needy children.

Certain clergy from faiths that have a moral objection to Social Security can be exempt from FICA taxation by statute rather than by any constitutional right to do so, but they give up any benefits from FICA funded programs by doing so.

Some counties will only recognize marriage preparation given by people (even clergy) who are on an approved list.