Sentences with phrase «shared by clergy»

Laypeople reading Scripture lessons, serving in choirs, providing instrumental music, and performing various liturgical tasks announce that the life of this congregation and its leadership are shared by clergy and laity.

Not exact matches

The activist New Breed clergy saw compelling Christian issues in the strike, but this view was not shared by a large majority of the clergymen.

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

Biologists and clergy are being radicalized by the same shared belief, a sign that we find ourselves on the brink of committing irrevocable acts.