Of course, Church officials were enraged, and, for a time, it looked as though Charles might even be excommunicated for his actions.

Previous Holy Roman Emperors had thought it their right, granted by God, to name the Pope, as well as other Church officials, such as bishops.

The sixth Conclusion states that officials of the Church should not concern themselves with secular matters when they hold a position of power within the Church because this constitutes a conflict of interest between matters of the spirit and matters of the State.

This served as a quick reference point for important dates in Christ Jesus ' life and to tell Church officials which Saints were to be honored and on what day.

Execution was neither performed by the Church, nor was it a sentence available to the officials involved in the inquisition, who, as clerics, were forbidden to kill.

In June 2012, the U. S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against government officials in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, for alleged civil rights violations, including acting as de-facto agents for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-a Mormon sect that split off in order to continue the practice of polygamy-denying ex-members and non-members of the Church access to everything from police services to housing and utilities.

King Frederick I declares religious tolerance for Lutherans, permits marriage of priests, forbids seeking papal pallium ( approval ) for royal appointments of Church officials.

Operating from the First Congregational Church, city officials and the Aldermen began taking steps to preserve order in the city.

General Emil August Fieldorf, as well as 40 members of the Wolność i Niezawisłość ( Freedom and Independence ) organisation, various Church officials and many other opponents of the new regime including the " hero of Auschwitz ", Witold Pilecki, condemned to death during secret trials.

The Whigs thoroughly purged the Tories from all major positions in government, the army, the Church of England, the legal profession and local officials.

During the 16th and 17th century, Church officials sought a productive role for the Colosseum.

Coluccio played an important part in changing this outlook, frequently engaging in theological debates on the merits of pagan literature with Church officials.

The service is organized by the Hong Kong ex-servicemen Association, and is attended by various Government officials and the representatives of various religious traditions such as the Anglican Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Buddhist community, the Taoist community, the Muslim community and the Sikh community.

Church officials reported to the hierarchy in Boston that Alger had been charged with " the crime of ... unnatural familiarity with boys ".

Government officials have backed down from a July 2008 deal to relocate the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only church destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

The early town officials met in the Williams Congregational Church located at 93rd Street and Green Bay Road.

The act also required all officials and clergy to make an oath of allegiance acknowledging her as the governor of the Church of England.

At a later date Roman Catholic Church officials even banned public bathing in an unsuccessful effort to halt syphilis epidemics from sweeping Europe.

A statement released by the Georgian Orthodox Church attempted to downplay the controversy as " artificial ", suggesting that " someone wants to portray the Church as a censor " in order to dissuade church officials from speaking out on future issues.

However there is no doubt that the Derg under Mengistu's leadership ordered the deaths without trial of 61 ex-officials of the Imperial government on 23 November 1974, and later of numerous other former nobles and officials including the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Theophilos, in 1977.

The rabbi said thoughtfully, `` I would not want my people to get in trouble with the Church ''.

The Nicene Creed and the shorter Apostles ' Creed are articles, or professions of Faith said by members of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

It was said that Holihan sent senior clerics in the Catholic Church material on Kent, that Holihan organised the aerial propaganda against CND, that he had entered CND offices under false pretences, and that CPS workers had joined CND in order to gain access to the Campaign's 1982 Annual Conference.

" Panner's order said activities of The Church of the Holy Light of the Queen are legal and protected under freedom of religion.

Drummer Asheim said, " The whole point of Satanic music is to blaspheme against the Church ", " I don't believe in or worship a devil.

The Catholic Church sees as the main basis for this belief the words of Jesus himself at his Last Supper: the Synoptic Gospels (; ; ) and Saint Paul's recount that in that context Jesus said of what to all appearances were bread and wine: " This is my body … this is my blood.

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

We are dealing with this: Would a stable mind depart from the opinion handed down by so many men famous for holiness and miracles, depart from the decisions of the Church, and commit our souls to the faith of someone like you who has sprung up just now with a few followers, although the leading men of your flock do not agree either with you or among themselves – indeed though you do not even agree with yourself, since in this same Assertion you say one thing in the beginning and something else later on, recanting what you said before.

The Church would not simply grant this favour, so Henry cited the passage in the Book of Leviticus where it said, " If a man taketh his brother's wife, he hath committed adultery ; they shall be childless.

In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops, like priests, are celibate and thus unmarried ; further, a bishop is said to possess the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders, empowering him to ordain deacons, priests, and – with papal consent – other bishops.

Paul heard him out and said merely, " Yes, pray for me ; because of my weaknesses, the Church is badly governed ".

However, John Paul also said, “ It is not right then to regard the moral conscience of the individual and the magisterium of the Church as two contenders, as two realities in conflict.

On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.

Several modern religious movements, for example the organizations within the New Thought Movement and the Unity Church, may be said to have a particularly idealist orientation.

The free and independent Church bound itself in solemn allegiance to the acknowledged king ; it said nothing of allegiance to the Bishop of Rome.

Rule 13 of Ignatius ' Rules for Thinking with the Church said: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity [...], if Church shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.

When asked why he didn't name the album " Electric Church " instead of " Electric Ladyland ", Hendrix said some ladies were " electric too ".