He said that two mortal sins which continued to preoccupy the Vatican were abortion, which offended the dignity and rights of women, and paedophilia, which had even infected the clergy itself and so had exposed the human and institutional fragility of the Church

When the Serb Patriarchate of Pec was, under pressure of Greek clergy, banned by Turks in 1766, in the name of Serb bishops Sava wrote to Metropolitan of Moscow, informed him that SERB NATION IS UNDER HARD SLAVERY and therefore asked Russian Holy Synod to help the restoration of Serb Patriarchate.

In Unam Sanctam (November 18, 1302), he decreed that " it is necessary to salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman pontiff. " He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September of 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.

In 1459 this campaign received the full support of the Bosnian king, Stjepan Tomaš, who summoned the clergy of the Bosnian church and ordered them to convert to Catholicism or leave the kingdom.

When most of the clergy converted, the back of the Bosnian church was broken

Put another way, no evidence existed against about 98 percent of parish clergy, the overwhelming majority of the group.

On July 20, along with other clergy I marched in an interfaith and interracial coalition from the Sudanese Mission to the steps of the United Nations.

As the clergy of different faiths held hands in a sign of unity, we demanded that the world body pass sanctions against the government of Sudan

Dvije godina kasnije Parlament je objavio zakon« Submission of the Clergy »kojim je kler došao potpuno pod vlast kralja

Many factors have given rise to the problem: insufficient moral and spiritual formation in seminaries and novitiates, a tendency in society to favour the clergy and other authority figures, and a misplaced concern for the reputation of the Church and the avoidance of scandal, resulting in failure to apply existing canonical penalties when needed.

We might ponder the possibility of a vindictive woman, wronged by a member of the clergy, out to get vengeance.

This soon brought about conflict with the clergy of the Holy Land, inasmuch as the increase of the landed property of the order led, owing to its exemption from tithes, to the diminution of the revenue of the churches, and the interdicts, at that time used and abused by the episcopate, became to a certain extent inoperative wherever the order had churches and chapels in which Divine worship was regularly held.

As early as 1156 the clergy of the Holy Land tried to restrain the exorbitant privileges of the military orders, but in Rome every objection was set aside, the result being a growing antipathy on the part of the secular clergy against these orders.

He financed the large increase in bishoprics, parishes, and secular clergy by extensive sales of monastic lands.

The pope has further the right to impose taxes on the clergy and the faithful for ecclesiastical purposes (cf.

In return, the priest agreed to be defrocked, or kicked out of the clergy.

At the end of 2003 552 persons held Vatican citizenship, of whom 61 were cardinals, 346 were other clergy, 101 members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard and 44 were other lay persons.

The oldest known Sabor was held in Split in 925 and in 928 (devoted more to religious than to secular questions), and in 1076 when Dmitar Zvonimir was elected the Croatian King by the " unanimous choice of the clergy and the people ".

For the clergy there will be but utter desolation.

Death kills with a cattle stun gun, almost like a member of the clergy administering a cross to the forehead of a parishoner.

They have been manipulated and distorted by Muslim clergy and politicians such that the actions of the Taliban, the oppression of women, the killing of innocent lives have all been justifiable through a distortion of Hadith

Jews were in fact routinely protected by both Fascist and non-Fascist Italians (including the clergy) and many Jews to this day have grateful memories of wartime Italy.

It appears that when the topic is alleged clergy abuse within the organization, its position on freedom of speech makes a 180 - degree turn.

All three churches were organizationally weak, their clergy largely uneducated, and none could count on steady and exclusive state patronage (these factors later contributed to the decision by a large part of the Bosnian people to abandon Christianity for Islam)

CNN reported that the draft version of the US National Conference of Catholic Bishops self-report survey completed in February 2004 said that 11,000 abuse claims have been filed against the US churchmen since 1950, with a total of 1413 clergy abusers.

However, at the time of the draft report only 84 of 195 diocesan bishops had contributed, and CNN ' s own research uncovered media records of 4,450 US Catholic clergy accused of molesting minors during that period.

Pope apologizes for sex abuse by Australian clergy - The New York..

The Gospel of Matthew, in the report on Christ s birth, wrote of the arrival of mysterious Magi from the east who came to Jerusalem and asked Jewish King Herrod (37 - 4 BC) and the Jewish clergy where the newly born king of the Jews was as they had followed his star and had come to offer themselves to him.

The Jewish clergy was no less upset at the news.

The book is comprised of forged documents and doctored accounts that " incriminate " the war-time Roman Catholic Clergy of Croatia, " guilty " of collaborating with the ustashe and the Nazi occupiers.