Sentences with phrase «taken against the bishop»

Although no further action was taken against the bishop, he could have faced up to two years in prison if convicted of inciting hatred.

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Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

Vatican officials have so far been reluctant to take action against bishops accused of concealing abuse.

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Malaysia bans non-Muslim publications from using «Allah,» Episcopal church takes disciplinary action against two conservative bishops, and April issue to be CCM magazine's last.

[52] He also wrote as bishop of Lyons, where in 177, a violent uprising had taken place against the Christians, resulted in the martyrdom of almost fifty Christian men and women.

CNN: My Take: Catholic bishops» election behavior threatens their authority Vincent Miller, Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton., argues that «By putting voters in a «with us or against us» bind, some of America's bishops have risked eroding their own authority.»

It means the Church, through the collective voice of the bishops, speaking authoritatively, taking a position for this policy option and against the other.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

Among other achievements, he supported the appeal of a Frankish bishop against a powerful Frankish archbishop, compelled a great - grandson of Charlemagne to take back his divorced wife, excommunicated two bishops for supporting the divorce, and enforced his power over another archbishop who defied it.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

The survivors persist in refusing to discriminate against Islam in their secular irony even though they continue, as always, to reserve their most provocative stuff for Christians (the most provocative cartoon in the post-attack issue exhibits divorced women who will now be able to take their communion their big tongues sticking out... we won't even translate the bishop's thought bubble).

The Catholic Bishops Conference has asked government to take strict action against the canker of vigilantism, and also deal with the deteriorating activities of land guards and nomadic herdsmen to improve general security in the country.