Sentences with phrase «not parochial»

But their contributions are universal, not parochial.

He requested the members to be firm and united and ensure they guard the process so that the essence of the whole process will be achieved and not the parochial interest of some elements within the party.

Finally, endeavoring to make the Christian message more conspicuous is not parochial.

These questions certainly aren't parochial or relevant to Boston alone.

That isn't childish, and it isn't parochial.

Not exact matches

A new generation is focused on the world, not on borders, and not on the parochial and the tired debates of petty politics.

This is not a time for local leaders to be blinded by parochial interests.

While Bevilacqua was not charged, three priests and a parochial school teacher were charged with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while Monsignor William Lynn, a former top aide to Bevilacqua, was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children.

Would we not expect something a little less parochial and regional from your cosmic super-minded god?

Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

As a practicing Catholic I would get ashes while I attended parochial school but since I've been an adult I prefer not to wear my religion on my sleeve.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

I am not a liturgist and, from the parochial perspective of a pastor who has studied worship much less than he has done it, I risk the tendency of many like me who probably unfairly think that liturgists are the ecclesiastical equivalent of lepidopterists.

I want to see how the parochial Christian Way we have inherited can be transformed, in faithfulness to Christ, into a Way which includes the truth of other Ways, and can therefore come to be what it now is not — the Way.

The answer is No, though this need not be pushed to the lengths of denying such services to the children in parochial schools as rides in school buses or access to school lunches.

By church school I do not mean the parochial school.

And if historical reconstruction is the goal, isn't it hopelessly parochial — indeed a kind of historian's bad faith — to confine the investigation to the canonical writings?

Not only does he have allies in defending the teaching of the Church, but he also has people who are tuned into formative parochial apostolate as well as overwhelmingly generous in giving their time and energy to the Church.

The world is not to be understood in merely domestic categories, as though nothing existed that lay beyond our local and parochial concerns.

The myth of size assumes that small churches are de facto struggling, parochial, maintenance - oriented, at risk, and not able to compete in today's church marketplace.

Isn't it ironic, though, that these playoffs are part of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools.

Read the article, not just the headline: the league is formed of schools that are part of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools.

What I find interesting is that TAPPS, an organization of private AND PAROCHIAL schools, will not accomodate the Beren Academy's request, especially given their practice of not scheduling games on Sundays (the Christian Sabbath).

Uh, no Jake, it's NOT a public school system, it's a parochial school system, so they routinely make allowances for religion.

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tPAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tparochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

It won't, but it makes their Bronze Age Bible even more parochial.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Well, don't send them to public school either because the rate of abuse in public schools is about 7X parochial schools.

A grand jury report, released in February, not only led to charges against four priests and one parochial school teacher but has opened the floodgates for civil litigation.

The problem, I suspect, is that we have internalized the liberal view that the Church is just another institution among many, and that what she has to offer is parochial, not universal.

Thus the identification of Judaism itself with a universalistic ethics must be seen as part of the effort, which began with Moses Mendelssohn in Germany in the middle of the eighteenth century, to argue that Judaism was not hopelessly parochial.

And for all its claim to fashionable multiculturalism («Women from the dominant culture, class, and ethnic group — especially in the United States — need to be careful not to generalize our experience as that of all women,» writes Ringe), the book is laughably parochial, designed strictly for Americans.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

But a fundamentalist and parochial Christianity is not the answer to our quest for a moral center.

Of one thing they were certain — public funds should not be used to support parochial schools or sectarian religious training in the public schools.

Hampson sees the issue not as a parochial Lutheran - Catholic one, but as «a real dilemma present in the Christian dispensation.»

Today, when the trend even in the churches is toward the regional, parochial and local, will ecumenism not suffer?

I could tell you some stories too, about trying to teach in the parochial system with next to no government funding and lacking resources, about situations that have not worked out well.

Be on guard, says Jesus, that you don't get weighed down with parochial anxieties and parochial amusements to relieve them.

Later, he protested that he had a right not to be turned into a myth for children at American parochial schools.

Catholic higher education will cease to be genuinely higher studies if it does not engage the challenges; it would become merely an extension of a parochial enterprise, confirming what some catechists have long sought and what many suspicious secularists have long believed.

Parochial schools could operate as safety valves for the public schools but this is often not the case.

Parochial schools are few, and not spreading.

Preaching must be addressed to the needs of a parish; but it must not be parochial, for one of the needs of every parish is to be connected to the church universal.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

For one thing our preaching and worship will authentically reflect the cries of the people for justice and our church structures will become catalysts for strengthening the struggle for all people and not just ghettos that preserve our narrow parochial interest — they truly become the salt of the earth.

This is not the genteel and parochial South of literary lore, and here Southern - ness is not a trend or fashion sensibility picked up on Pinterest — it extends beyond a devotion to monograms and making tablecloths from burlap found in the local Hobby Lobby.

Actually, Butch doesn't listen so much as monitor, waiting for someone to slip up or say something parochial.

With everyone's initial input gathered, the family should establish parameters for the search, including whether you will look at public, parochial and / or independent schools and whether or not you will consider boarding schools.