The Church controls the spread of new knowledge and tries to smother new ideas that does not agree with established dogmas.
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ owned and controlled the school during its entire history.
In addition the Church largely controlled the State's hospitals, schools and remained the largest provider of many other social services.
A majority of the theories allege that the Church and its representatives are secretly controlling secular society.
The Church, although now less powerful than it had originally been, controlled education and social welfare.
The Church - and the Pax - control its citizens through its monopoly of resurrection.
At an early date the Church here controlled the entire religious life and, as the depositary of all culture, the entire intellectual life.
The aristocracy controls the land, and the Church controls the courts.
Not when the Church controls all of the great kingdoms completely.
The Church does not control its members strictly.