Sentences with phrase «people by the clergy»

There seem to be a never - ending litany of cases involving sexual abuse of young people by the clergy.

Not exact matches

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.

For some reason it never seems to occur to the clergy person (s) to ask whether the accuser (s) have first personally confronted the defendent, as instructed to do by Scripture, before appealing to an authority figure.

Some clergy are quite earnest and good at what they do but often get run off and run down by the controlling minority; other times they are the overbearing, dogmatic type who bully people into submission.

We Protestants forget that and deny it every time we shut the people out and turn worship into entertainment by clergy or musicians before silent congregations.

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.

Some clergy are afraid that by teaching the doctrine they will lose their people.

Most of the Anglo - Catholic clergy who stayed in their ghetto did so because of their refusal to leave their people behind: asone Anglican priest who had attempted to take his Parish to Rome and had been repulsed by his local Catholic bishop put it to me, the essential was that «Rome has got to have a more creative view of the corporate nature of our present existence».

The devoutly leftist People for the American Way (PAW) got into the act with a statement signed by a select group of clergy asserting that «God is neither Republican nor a Democrat.»

In working to protect the future of the Catholic community, we always need to remember that innocent people and innocent families were hurt in the past by some members of the clergy who did terrible things.

Pastors may be the only people in a position to open communications networks — by corresponding with other clergy all over the world to discuss how an international antiviolence movement can be created at the grass roots.

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

Correction, bible described the earth as a sphere suspended by nothing, clergy lied to the people, something they are still doing to this day.

Earlier this year, a study commissioned by the Trenton Archdiocese in New Jersey found that the main reason people were leaving the church was because of what they considered its inadequate response to clergy sex abuse.

Let's not agree to disagree over the rights of women and the LGBT community, the Establishment Clause, the exploitation of misguided people by predatory clergy.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

Marriage is a ritual and marriage in the church, by clergy, indicates that the two people are making a covenant with God.

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

Keohane and Willimon write, «No one has suggested that we ask any clergy to perform these unions if that person, by reason of conscience, conviction, or church tradition, does not wish to do so.»

What began as an effort by legislators to expand judicial accountability for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has grown to cover people in every walk of life.

At least one center has a clergy staff person who is supported, in part, by the local Council of Churches.

(15) Clergy persons have often retained control over their people by fostering in them «Not - Okay Child» feelings of fear and guilt, which constrict their spiritual growth.

A friend of the Abbot of Cluny and of the ardent reforming hermit and Abbot Peter Damien, he traveled widely, fighting simony, enforcing clerical celibacy, and insisting that bishops be elected by their people and the clergy and not appointed by the lay lords.

He himself, although chosen by an assembly in Germany at the instance of Henry III, refused to assume the functions and title of Pope until after he had entered Rome garbed as a humble pilgrim, his election was confirmed, according to long - established precedent, by the people and clergy of the city.

Assumptions about confidentiality held by a clergy - person or a worshiping community have significant implications for community life.

Whatever the means, the subject must be brought into the open, where people can deal with it, rather than fear it: Clergy can also work to make the church facilities architecturally accessible by installing wheelchair ramps as well as making bathrooms accessible to wheelchairs.

Boff certainly does not mince words, and in one place even offers a kind of Marxist analysis of institutional church life, citing «the expropriation of the religious means of production» (forgiveness, sacraments and so forth) as means by which the clergy deny power to the people.

Could one demonstrate that the basic ideas espoused by the clergy made any impact on masses of people?

There are many strands to the phenomenon of the abuse of children and young persons in our time, which is by no means limited to Catholic clergy or the Catholic Church.

Most people know something of the part played in Norway by Bishop Berggrav and his clergy, and the school - teachers who followed his lead.

In the urban centers there were cathedral churches staffed by a considerable corps of the clergy responsible for the cure of souls in the area and sometimes, as in the case of Chantry priests, committed to saying masses for designated persons living or dead.

Thus in place of three basic, though overlapping ministries of the primitive church (sometimes concurrently discharged by the same person) we found at the end of the two centuries of evolution three main orders of the clergy: the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate and an ever - growing series of lower orders.

Estates are groups officially deliniated by the state (nobility, clergy, peasants, traders, craftsmen, armymen, natives, foreign - religion people etc).

Chairperson, Eminent Clergy, ladies and gentlemen, the New Patriotic Party and I won, by the Grace of God, last year's elections with clear marching orders from the Ghanaian people.

New York Hispanic Clergy Organization Annual Banquet 2018 By Robert Press Over 500 people were in attendance for the 2018 for the NY Hispanic Clergy Organization Annual Banquet.

The program, created by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, pays people who were abused by clergy when they were kids.

The Judson Church demonstration, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), convened immigrants, advocacy groups and clergy members, who urged the Supreme Court to proceed with the DACA / DAPA case and help eliminate the fear of deportation for millions of people.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) granted $ 10,000 to Artists Space for the exhibition, but when the catalogue appeared with an essay by David Wojnarowicz that excoriated politicians and the clergy for their inaction in the face of the crisis — or for their outright attacks on people with AIDS — the NEA came under fire from ultraconservative politicians such as Senator Jesse Helms.

A covered health care provider must inform an individual of the protected health information that it may include in a directory and the persons to whom it may disclose such information (including disclosures to clergy of information regarding religious affiliation) and provide the individual with the opportunity to restrict or prohibit some or all of the uses or disclosures permitted by paragraph (a)(1) of this section.

Often it is done by a clergy person who has also been licensed as a therapist.

A marriage ceremony does not always need to be in a church; rather some couples may opt to have a non-church wedding officiated by clergy or may have an entirely secular ceremony involving a person authorized to officiate a wedding.

The Living Links listening / support service is free of charge and available to any person in the community including Emergency Personnel, Gardaí, Clergy and Funeral Directors etc., who have in any way been affected by suicide.

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

It's no surprise to hear that Clergy, religious and other helping professionals are approached by people in marital crisis who are considering divorce.

PREP is an educational program that participants can learn using several formats depending on their preferences, such as in - person workshops, online and home study, or classes run by clergy.

No provision of this chapter shall be construed to limit the performance of activities of a rabbi, priest, minister, or member of the clergy of any religious denomination or sect, or use of the terms «Christian counselor» or «Christian clinical counselor» when the activities are within the scope of the performance of his or her regular or specialized ministerial duties and no compensation is received by him or her, or when such activities are performed, with or without compensation, by a person for or under the auspices or sponsorship, individually or in conjunction with others, of an established and legally cognizable church, denomination, or sect, and when the person rendering service remains accountable to the established authority thereof.

The groups already excluded under state law: clergy or as an employee of an educational, non-profit or governmental agency determined by the board to meet the community needs while performing the duties for which the person was employed