Sentences with phrase «women bishops command»

It is odd that the Bell case, in many ways as searingly important as Captain Dreyfus was to Zola's generation of Frenchmen, has so far barely raised a whisper in English public life, while disputes about homosexual clergy or women bishops command attention.

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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.