(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.
Reverend
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(2) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(3) "When the Reverend Flowers gave evidence to the [Treasury] select committee, he was quite clear that the Co-op's expansion, in particular the attempt to buy 600 Lloyds branches, which the bank was in no position to do ultimately, had been actively encouraged by Conservative ministers at the Treasury.
(4) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
(5) An overcome Esaw Garner was escorted from the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, which was packed with hundreds of people.
(6) Seeing this legislation come out of a state I know and love has been painful.” Standing next to him, Linda Whitworth-Reed, a Presbyterian reverend in Little Rock, agreed.
(7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(8) But the AMA Coalition chair, Reverend LeRoy Haynes, like others pressing for police reform, is also critical of the agreement because he says the Justice Department sidestepped the real issue – race.
(9) The prime minister describes the fallen reverend as the "man who has broken a bank" and "trooped in and out of Downing Street under Labour".
(10) The reverend Paul Flowers is accused of possessing drugs including cocaine and crystal meth .
(11) Today we are in a battle to stop this state taking rights away from North Carolina citizens – this is our Selma,” said Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, the lead plaintiff.
(12) When I was on a panel this spring in San Francisco with Alicia Garza, a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter , she said Ferguson marked “the first time in my lifetime”‚ in which the Reverends “Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were begged to leave” the scene of a civil rights crime.
(13) For example, he could not work out how Thomas could describe a portrait of the Reverend Eli Jenkins's mother as "propped against a pot in a palm".
(14) The evangelical Christian university was founded by televangelist Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is known for hosting only the most conservative Republican candidates on its campus.
(15) President Barack Obama on Friday made his second speech on race issues in two days, telling the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference in New York that the Republican party was threatening voting rights more than at any time since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
(16) Schad's pastor, the Reverend Ronald Koplitz, said the statement likely was a reference to "I'll Fly Away," a Gospel song he gave Schad a couple of weeks ago.
(17) He seems as agitated by his home state’s drama with the Confederate flag as he is by how state officials have refused to expand Medicaid health cover for the poor largely with federal money – an issue of importance to one of those killed in the church attack, Reverend Senator Clementa Pinckney , who Jackson knew.
(18) The Reverend Robert Weiss said he was planning to keep the church open 24 hours on the anniversary of the shooting, to give people a place to go and pray.
(19) "In view of this, and having spoken to the Reverend Jeremy Pemberton, his permission to officiate in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham was revoked," he said.
(20) The Reverend Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent local activist, said he thought the march itself would cost businesses money because the publicity surrounding it would discourage shoppers from even venturing into the area.