Sentences with clergy
cler·gy
C c - These proposals met opposition from the clergy.
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- If only the Catholic Church pursued abusive clergy in the way it fights homosexuality.
- Rather, it is a discipline only formally imposed on the clergy in 1139.
- Either way, the people suffering most in this ugly struggle over biblical truth are gay Christians, clergy and laity.
- As the Uniting Church convenes for its 11th general assembly, the divisive issue of gay clergy threatens to tear it apart.