Sentences with phrase «run by priests»

in Ireland there was systamatic physical and sexual abuse of chldren on a wide scale by those in institutons run by priests, nuns and brothers the very people who were ment to be representative of God's love!

The statistics also show that churches flourish most when they are run by priests in their 40s or 60s.

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Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

An Indian priest has been kidnapped by terrorists who murdered 16 people at a care home run by nuns in Yemen.

I went to a college and a (major) university run by the Holy Cross order of priests.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

After completing my studies at seminary I was ordained in 1967 and offered a post teaching chemistry at the John Fisher School in Surrey, a Catholic secondary school run by diocesan priests.

Of course, it didn't help that we were being rushed along by the very stern - looking priests who run the place, but still: It struck me that, for many of these pilgrims, the end seemed to matter quite a bit more than the journey.

When you say god loves us, are you referring to cancer, AIDS, SIDS, babies getting run over by cars, priests molesting children, anyone molesting children, birds flying into a jet engine, the jet crashing after birds flew into its engine...?

It seems strange to think of an ill Frenchwoman lying in the dark and instructing a priest to run a retreat for a large group of people whom she had never met and who would be gathered together by unknown means.

When word came after his first week there that members of the Italian press were coming to see him, he fled seven miles by bicycle into the woods, to Pope John's Garden, a leper colony run by the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and one that, Benvenuti says, even many doctors and priests avoided for fear of contracting leprosy.

Naturally we gag when Olympia's high priests trade their votes for auto parts or plastic surgery, but the modern Games have always been run by a club that included some Borgias and butchers.

by Bryant Frazer Death Wish director Michael Winner tried his hand at a boilerplate horror flick with The Sentinel, another in the long - running cycle of American horror films that doubled as scary religious propaganda, with the faith of Catholic priests the last bulwark against harrowing incursions by Satan himself on our mortal realm.

Directed by: Paul Schrader Starring: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, and Cedric Kyles (aka Cedric the Entertainer) Plot: A priest questions his faith after a traumatic run in with an environmental activist.

Whereas in previous years schools were run by one priest who was ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the school, boards composed of lay professionals are very slowly becoming a necessity.

Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish - American clan who takes strange pleasure in the «curse» laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires.

But by the time they reached the Vatican palace, Pope Clement VII had lifted up his skirts (to find, no doubt, a brace of cardinals squeezed beneath his fat stomach) and, along with a dozen sacks hastily stuffed with jewels and holy relics, run as if he had the Devil on his heels to the Castel Sant «Angelo, the drawbridge rising up after him with the invaders in sight and a dozen priests and courtiers still hanging from its chains, until they had to shake them off and watch them drown in the moat below.

He also notes that James Montier is part of the asset allocation team of GMO, run by one of the high priests of mean reversion, Jeremy Grantham.

Besides hiking, you could also experience religious rituals such as «Shukubo Seizan - so» or waterfall purification and meditation run by local priests and get your hands on the local crafts in the workshops offered by Mitake Visitor Center.

No matter HOW reasonable the terms «ritual» and «ceremonial» and «temple» SOUND to us as laymen, please be aware that there were many very practical people living in those old societies — carpenters, farmers, metal workers, bricklayers, architects, etc. — and the archaeological view that the societies were run predominantly by priest castes is only one point of view.

Just run your statements by your local priest, is my advice.

AGW skeptics are Holocaust deniers, children will never know what snow is, rivers will run red and «oceans will begin to boil, Earth will be like Venus, global warming is not a Left vs. right issue and, unlike our ancestors, we will be led to survival by high priests in green robes with computer models chanting anti-energy and anti-food slogans....

Helen Barnes, Associate The Guardian report upon the case of the Claimant, referred to as «JGE» who alleges to have been sexually abused by a priest whilst residing in a children's home, run by...

Informed by an old priest that he would find diamonds in «a river that runs through white sands, between high mountains,» the man sold his farm and set off on his quest to find diamonds.