Mostly this has been achieved through control of and support for civil institutions, the church and the armed forces, rather than through party politics.

Carrera dominated Guatemalan politics until 1865, backed by conservatives, large land owners and the church.

Despite the warning that constitutionally the church was not allowed to interfere with the politics, the church paper Accion social cristiana published articles.

After this failure in dabbling in imperial politics, Gregory by and large focused his attention for the rest of his pontificate in dealing with internal church matters.

Through extensive study, Amos also wove in the stories of the Gnostic gospels and the removal of women from a position of power within the Christian church to create an album based largely on religion and politics.

In this situation of dependency on the powerful neighbors in France, three principles characterized the politics by Clement V: the suppression of the heretic movements ( such as the Cathars in southern France ); the reorganization of the internal administration of the church ; and the preservation of an untainted image of the church as the sole instrument of God's will on earth.

It is not known whether Edward approved of this transformation or whether he had to accept it, but from this time he seems to have begun to withdraw from active politics, devoting himself to hunting, which he pursued each day after attending church.

In response to Hungarian attempts to use church politics regarding the issue as a way to reclaim sovereignty over Bosnia, Kulin held a council of local church leaders to renounce the heresy in 1203.

* Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (" God is Love ") of 2006 claims that justice is the defining concern of the state and the central concern of politics, and not of the church, which has charity as its central social concern.

Raeder severed his once close friendship with Pastor Martin Niemöller after Niemöller rejected his advice to stay clear of " politics " and accept the application of the Aryan paragraph to the Lutheran church.

Highly critical of the Enlightenment, the " revolution " as they called it, the Doleantie in the church had counterparts in education and in politics.

Chamberlain became involved in Liberal politics, influenced by the strong radical and liberal traditions among Birmingham shoemakers and the long tradition of social action in Chamberlain's Unitarian church.

Indeed takes the Borgia family's recent and very controversial attempts to use church power in secular politics, often very brutally executed, as a positive example.

*, goes into some detail about the politics in the early church that was the background for the rise and fall of Donatism.

The reforms had consequences for, and were influenced by, relations within the church as well as secular politics.

He argued that on an increasing number of " hot-button " defining issues — abortion, gun politics, separation of church and state, privacy, recreational drug use, homosexuality, censorship issues — there existed two definable polarities.

Some minorities resent the privileges granted the Catholic church as other religious groups were actively or passively discouraged His critics hold that Duplessis's inherently-corrupt patronage politics, his reactionary conservatism, his emphasis on traditional family and religious values, his anachronistic anti-union stance, rural focus and his preservation and promotion of Catholic Church institutions over the development of a secular social infrastructure akin to that underway in most of the postwar West, stunted Quebec's social and economic development by at least a decade.

A crucial break came in 1782, when the Minorite church was closed in the course of the religious politics of Joseph II.

Taylor's son, John W. Taylor, continued to serve in the church and in politics and helped to shepherd Utah to statehood in 1896.

" We firstly ask for the freedom of conscience or the freedom of full universal religion, without distinction as without privilege ; and by consequence, in what touches us, we Catholics, for the total separation of church and state ... this necessary separation, without which there would exist for Catholics no religious freedom, implies, for a part, the suppression of the ecclesiastical budget, and we have fully recognized this ; for another part, the absolute independence of the clergy in the spiritual order ... Just as there can be nothing religious today in politics there must be nothing political in religion.

Once in church, however, his mind regularly wanders off, and he thinks about politics only.

Old World Lutheranism, for historical reasons, has tended to adopt Erastian theories of episcopal authority ( by which church authority is to a limited extent sanctioned by secular government ).

The Italian solo cantata tended, when on a large scale, to become indistinguishable from a scene in an opera, in the same way the church cantata, solo or choral, is indistinguishable from a small oratorio or portion of an oratorio.

Brittany has historically been a stronghold of the Roman Catholic Church, and its rates of church attendance have tended to be considerably higher than the national average.

District count Werner V, progenitor of the Salian dynasty tended to expand his territories at the expense of the church and had the bishop Einhard blinded on 12 March 913.

When mainstream media outlets have reported alleged abuses, however, representatives of the church have tended to respond by counterattack, blaming the allegations on critics with an alleged agenda to misrepresent the organizations's intentions.

They tended to be a simple cell ( also called anchorhold ), built against one of the walls of the local village church.

My principles, I am sure, will never endanger the church England-my studies, I hope, are such as do not disgrace it-and my actions, I can say with confidence, have ever tended to preserve it from open, and what I conceive to be unjust attacks.

Disciples congregations tended to be wealthier and constructed larger, more expensive church buildings ; Churches of Christ built more modest structures, and criticized the wearing of expensive clothing in worship.

Conservative suffragists were drawn into the organisation, and these women tended not to support general social reform, or attacks on the church.

Charismatics, on the other hand, have tended to see their movement as a force for revitalization and renewal within their own church traditions.

Although it was never spoken per se outside church services, members of the priesthood, poets, and the educated tended to slip its expressions into their speech.

He is also remembered for his role in the banishment of Roger Williams regarding the role of democracy and the separation of church and state in the Puritan theonomic society, both of which Williams tended to advocate.

Prior to this, wealthier church areas tended to have better-funded buildings and activities than poorer areas.

There are various reasons for this, but one of them seems to be that clergy have tended to pass though it as a church in which to be ordained by bishops from the historic apostolic succession before moving on to other, larger church bodies.

Within the city itself, there was no vegetation, except a few flowers kept by individuals, a small flower bed in a church in the slums, tended by Aerith Gainsborough, and a garden on the grounds of Aerith's house in Sector 5.

Jerome tended to teach radical ideas pertaining to Roman Catholic doctrine, namely that God ’ s teachings were directly accessible to a Christian without need for the church or church officials.

Jerome evaded church and political authorities for quite some time, and tended to be quite coy about it.

Both prebendaries and portioners tended in this period to abandon communal living, each canon establishing his own house within the precinct of the church.

Additionally, they would not discuss their ideas and opinions with outsiders and sought to remain undetected by ordinary members of society: they tended to be members of an established church so as not to attract suspicion and showed respect for authority.

The civil administration and legal records tended to employ Greek, while the church leadership ( originally all Egyptians ) were fluent in Coptic.

Furthermore, study and analysis of original non-Nicenian texts has shown that the church fathers tended to oversimplify when writing about their doctrinal enemies.

While Anne tended to favor the high church faction, particularly towards the close of her reign, the court of George I was more closely allied with church and elements, and was warmer towards non-conformists.