(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(2) A former military chaplain who used his position to "influence and promote" the abduction and killing of Tutsi refugees in Rwanda was found guilty of genocide and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today.
(3) They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.” Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
(4) The discrepancy in chaplain use suggests a need for objective study about the chaplain's role.
(5) The findings revealed that 1) nearly 4 out of 10 priests have reservations about the traditional church teaching on direct abortion; 2) 64% state that the traditional teaching is clear and that they are in complete agreement with it; 3) the younger the priest the less likely he is to agree with the church position; 4) hospital chaplains express more agreement with the traditional teaching than any other job category; 5) the proportions who disagree are highest in the two New York City dioceses, 6) the higher the education of the priest the less likely he is to agree with the traditional position; 7) there is a strong relationship between a priest's position on the tradit ional church teaching and his won political activity related to abortion such as writing to officials protesting the liberalized law, etc.
(6) I’m a very visible director.” But some staff members acknowledge that the size of the prison creates challenges, echoing the concerns of campaigners such as Frances Crook of the Howard League, who said: “Prisoners held in smaller prisons tend to be more engaged in the prison regime, enjoy better staff–prisoner relationships, and are safer than those held in large prisons.” Kate Clay, Oakwood’s head of healthcare (which is contracted out to Worcestershire health and care NHS trust) says: “This is the biggest prison I have ever worked in; the sheer size of the establishment, getting from one end to another in an emergency, it takes quite a long time.” The outgoing chaplain, David Weller, is the only unreservedly critical voice.
(7) The Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, 52, chaplain to the House of Commons and a chaplain to the Queen Born and brought up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she is the first black female chaplain to the Commons, and is known for her straight talking.
(8) Ben Arnold Children’s Hospital: The Chaplains 7.30pm, BBC2 Six-month-old Lucyellen has flown in from Belfast for a liver transplant.
(9) Once the decision was made, social workers and nurses were most caring and helpful, residents and chaplains were rated the lowest.
(10) "It this is not challenged," Pemberton said on Sunday, "it will send a message to all chaplains of whom a considerable number are gay and lesbian.
(11) Faull has been the chaplain of an Oxbridge college, run two cathedrals, sat on some of the church's most important committees – but she remains a woman, and cannot until December at the earliest be named as a diocesan bishop.
(12) Chris McGreal's Chaplains of the Militia , on the role of the Catholic church during the genocide, is out now from Guardian Shorts.
(13) "Our numbers have reduced ever since we started in 2008," Denis, the chaplain and a primary school teacher, tells me.
(14) It’s important that we get a full picture of what went on.” Jill Healy, the executive principal of Flinders Christian Community college, where the boy went to school, told Fairfax radio the school would hold briefings and that chaplains would be available for staff, students and parents.
(15) Wilson cited disputes over mosques, such as in Bendigo and Penrith; public funding for school chaplains; and the recent case of a West Australian girl at a Christian school who was told she was not welcome because her father was in a relationship with a man.
(16) The inquiry centres on a former chaplain and governor at the Roman Catholic state school in Fulham, south-west London, at which Prime Minister Tony Blair's two eldest sons are pupils.
(17) The matter is complicated because Pemberton, who lives in Southwell and sings in the minster there, already has a job as a hospital chaplain in the neighbouring diocese of Lincoln.
(18) The Rev Canon Dr Judith Maltby, chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a reader in church history at the university, said that while many lay and clerical members of both churches got on well, the Roman Catholic and Anglican hierarchies were living through an "ecumenical winter".
(19) Rukundo, a parish priest before becoming a chaplain in the military in 1993, was described by the court as a well-known priest in the community who had abused his position.
(20) A chaplain's assistant and a nurse had alerted the primary physician to the spouse's statements that her husband did not want his life prolonged by extraordinary means.
Chaplaincy
Definition:
(n.) The office, position, or station of a chaplain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Offshore detention high court challenge to look at Australia's rush to change laws Read more Gleeson told the court on Thursday the new provisions were designed to satisfy the requirements that arose from the so-called Williams case, which related primarily to the federal government’s funding of school chaplaincy but had broader implications.
(2) However, Inwood has now scuppered Pemberton's attempt to take up a new job, as chaplaincy and bereavement manager at the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, by refusing to issue the required licence, it emerged on Wednesday.
(3) The government has found an extra $245m over five years to continue the national school chaplaincy program until at least December 2018.
(4) Chaytor will be then be interviewed by education staff and members of the prison chaplaincy, and will be able to call upon the services of "listeners" – prisoners who are selected and trained by the Samaritans to help inmates through their first week behind bars.
(5) Funding for the school chaplaincy program is being continued, but not increased.
(6) I'd phoned in the week, asked to speak to healthcare, and they wouldn't let me because Kyal was over 18, so they just put me through to the chaplaincy.
(7) I offer hypotheses for testing the role of the chaplaincy in the NICU.
(8) For services to the Anglican Chaplaincy and community charities in Greece.
(9) In an attempt to clarify which requirements of morality are logically primary to the ethics of health care, two questions are examined: is there sufficient common ground among the medical, nursing, paramedical, chaplaincy, and social work professions to justify looking for ethical principles common to health care?
(10) And they said, well, the chaplaincy deals with it and they're not here now, so you'll have to get in touch with them tomorrow."
(11) The hospital chaplain is a relatively new member of the health care team, and there is little objective information on the chaplaincy's role in the hospital.
(12) The case builds on a successful case mounted last year against the federal government’s funding of the school chaplaincy program.
(13) I am a Buddhist and am patron of the Buddhist prison chaplaincy as well.
(14) "By this time the chaplaincy had gone and I said, with the greatest respect, it's not a spiritual matter, it's a medical matter.
(15) They see it as “indoctrination” (unlike, apparently, the $240m school chaplaincy scheme), as “social engineering” and being somehow linked to paedophilia, and also to a “Marxist agenda” and “the sexual liberation of young people”, which is, in their view, also a very bad thing.
(16) Of that money, $139m will go to Asio, $107m to the Australian Secret Intelligence Services and $72.3m to the Australian federal police (AFP) $406m will go to the national partnership agreement between states and the commonwealth on universal access to early childhood education over four years Operation Okra , the military operation to stop the advancement of Isis in Iraq and Syria, will receive nearly $300m over three years $300m will go towards the addition of new drugs to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme over the forward estimates period The continuation of the national school chaplaincy program will cost the government $242m over four years Beefing up security at parliament house in Canberra will cost $200m over forward estimates.
(17) "In light of the pastoral guidance and for reasons of consistency, I am unable to issue a licence to Jeremy Pemberton for the post of chaplaincy and bereavement manager, in the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust."
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rob Dewey, left, with the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy and pastor Thomas Dixon, second from left, participate in a prayer vigil in front of the courthouse on Monday.
(19) Voters disagreed with the budget decision to fund the school chaplaincy program for another five years, but to restrict it to religious chaplains and remove the option for schools to hire a non-religious chaplain.
(20) Because suffering often triggers spiritual wrestling in addition to emotional, mental, and physical pain, the nurse may be invited to come alongside a person in a role that interfaces with that of the chaplaincy.