"clerical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The parabalani had neither orders nor vows, but were enumerated among the clergy and enjoyed clerical privileges and immunities.
- The council agreed to grant Meletian priests 'full clerical privileges' if they were willing to forswear schism and 'acknowledge the authority of the Alexander of Alexandria'.
- The archbishop urged that, apart from the principle of clerical privilege, to degrade a man first and to hang him afterwards was to punish him twice for the same offence.
- In leading a "backlash" against Vatican II, Pope John Paul II has put clerical privilege ahead of the well-being of his flock.
- Almost from the start, the State tried to limit the exploitation of clerical privilege or, rather, use it for secular purposes.
- Clerical sources of income came to be seen as exactions, and clerical privileges as abuses.
- The primacy of the church and the defence of clerical privileges were viewed by Pecham as the self-evident basis of a sound secular government and a healthy society.
- The archbishop fled to Canterbury where he proceeded to deliver sermons and issue pamphlets against the crown's infringement of clerical privileges.
- Some clergy believed that by supporting independence they opposed earlier Spanish Bourbon efforts to reduce clerical privileges and to seize church assets to redeem war debts.
- But half of them, no doubt, would have laid claim to clerical privilege if he had, and been fished out of trouble by masters or canons.
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