(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.
Clergy
Definition:
(n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
(n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.
(n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
(2) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(3) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
(4) One group of clergy had spent the evening marching through the west side, pleading with people to remain peaceful.
(5) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(6) During most of the century, the clergy did not condemn abortion.
(7) A conscience clause, however, will allow individual clergy to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages.
(8) Clergy at St Paul's have been divided over what action to take against the protest.
(9) Cure The Violence does a great deal of public education, often in concert with local clergy, to organise communities against gun violence.
(10) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
(11) Although accompanied by his father to the meeting, Boland's parent was not allowed into the hearing between senior clergy and the boy.
(12) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(13) He went on to say: "We can't be certain about the direct link between bad weather and the gay marriage legislation" Some clergy are offering to bless same-sex marriages despite their bishops opposition.
(14) The Vatican announced in December that Francis had decided to set up the commission to advise the church on the best policies to protect children, train church personnel and keep abusers out of the clergy.
(15) Henry Barnes The clergy may not be entirely trustworthy This may not be big news to cinemagoers – sneering at religious types goes all the way back to DW Griffith's Intolerance – but Cannes boasts an impressively ecumenical approach.
(16) In the US, schools, AIDS activists, and clergy distribute condoms to prevent HIV transmission.
(17) The following research was conducted to find out the specific variables associated with state prison clergy counselor role self-perceptions.
(18) As political leaders, the black clergy were usually the primary spokespersons for the entire black community, especially during periods of crisis.” The roll call of 20th-century African-American leadership, from Adam Clayton Powell, through Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson, shows that only a handful of prominent figures emerged outside of organised religion.
(19) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(20) Poland remains one of Europe’s most staunchly Catholic nations, although the clergy’s influence has been steadily eroded by more than two decades of democratisation and market reforms since the 1989 fall of communism.