The historian N. J. Higham speculates that one reason for his attendance may have been to assert the English Church's independence from the Frankish Church.

The motivations included the assertion of the Church's independence against rulers, a desire to have an English ( indeed Norman English ) saint of European reputation, and the desire to promote Canterbury as a destination for pilgrimage ; the campaign was successful on all counts.

The written suggestions for discussion by the council as to the reform of the Church, did not aim to improve of morals, but instead tried to specify what constituted " poverty " for the clergy and to protect the Church's independence of action ( an urgent question, in the circumstances ).

The purpose of the Act was to settle centuries of dispute between the British Parliament and the Church of Scotland over the Church's independence in spiritual matters.

The passing of the Act saw the British Parliament recognise the Church's independence in spiritual matters, by giving legal recognition to the Articles Declaratory.

The question now moved from the issue of patronage, to the issue of the Church's spiritual independence.

At a church meeting in Skänninge 1248, where Jarler participated, it was decided to consecrate the rule of celibacy, the Church's independence of the King, and finally that the archbishop should be elected through a cathedral chapter and not as previously by the King personally.

In computability theory, the Church – Turing thesis ( also known as the Turing-Church thesis, the Church – Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis ) is a combined hypothesis (" thesis ") about the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable ; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable.

Church's type theory is a variant of the lambda calculus in which expressions ( also called formulas or λ-terms ) are classified into types, and the types of expressions restrict the ways in which they can be combined.

Marian hymns, litanies and the veneration or Benediction of the icons of Mary are combined in the Maronite Church's, Benediction of the icon of the Virgin Mary.

It is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated ; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God.

But from the very outset Alonzo Church's attempts began with a debate that continues to this day.

Post strongly disagreed with Church's " identification " of effective computability with the λ-calculus and recursion, stating:

Hume was charged with heresy, but he was defended by his young clerical friends, who argued that — as an atheist — he was outside the Church's jurisdiction.

The LDS Church's version of the Doctrine and Covenants is officially described by the church as " containing revelations given to Joseph Smith, the Prophet, with some additions by his successors in the Presidency of the Church.

This result is now known as Church's Theorem or the Church – Turing Theorem ( not to be confused with the Church – Turing thesis ).

Kelly was raised as a Roman Catholic, but after becoming disenchanted by the Roman Catholic Church's support for Francisco Franco against the Spanish Republic, he officially severed his ties with the church in September 1939.

Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees the Catholic Church's doctrine ; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide ; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities ; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues.

Public authorities should oppose laws which undermine natural law ; scientists should further study effective methods of natural birth control ; doctors should further familiarize themselves with this teaching, in order to be able to give advice to their patients, priests must spell out clearly and completely the Church's teaching on marriage.

Other sources note that during his time as Patriarch of Venice that " Luciani was intransigent with his upholding of the teaching of the Church and severe with those, through intellectual pride and disobedience paid no attention to the Church's prohibition of contraception ", though while not condoning the sin, he was tolerant of those who sincerely tried and failed to live up to the Church's teaching.

At the very beginning of his reign, he deemed it proper to promulgate by law the Church's belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation ; and to threaten all heretics with the appropriate penalties ; whereas he subsequently declared that he intended to deprive all disturbers of orthodoxy of the opportunity for such offense by due process of law.

Pope Benedict XVI authorized publication of this document, indicating that he considers it consonant with the Church's teaching, though it is not an official expression of that teaching.

In contrast with the Cathars and in line with the Church, they believed in only one God, but they did not recognize priesthood nor the veneration ( not synonymous with worship ) of saints and martyrs, which were part of the Church's orthodoxy.

The main activity was to invest the Church's money, and with advancing years gradually entrusted to him the management of affairs, to such an extent that the Romans said he had reserved to himself only the episcopal functions of benedicere et sanctificare, resigning in favour of the Cardinal the administrative duties of regere et gubernare.

The preterist view served to bolster the Catholic Church's position against attacks by Protestants, who identified the Pope with the Anti-Christ.

Further on he notices that the Church's attitude goes much further than the secular law regarding monogamy: It forbids re-marrying, considering such to be a form of fornication: And yet, save in the City of our God, in His Holy Mount, the case is not such with the wife.

This often reflects historical circumstances, with the Primate located in what had been the capital when the country first became Christianized, and with such geographical disparity helping to preserve the Church's autonomy from the secular government.

These laws ended the Catholic Church's involvement with many government institutions in late 19th-century France, including schools.

These abbreviated volumes soon became very popular and eventually supplanted the Roman Catholic Church's Curia office, previously said by non-monastic clergy.

Before he left Oxford ( sometime in 1600 or 1601 ), he wrote and published three long poems in popular Elizabethan styles ; none appears to have been especially successful, and one, his book of satires, ran afoul of the Anglican Church's ban on verse satire and was burned.

Oratorios became extremely popular in early 17th century Italy partly because of the success of the opera and the Church's prohibition of spectacles during Lent.

On the issue of Church's Autocephaly and his role as king within the Church, Otto was overwhelmed by the arcana of Orthodox Church doctrine and popular discontent with his Roman Catholicism ( while the Queen was Protestant ).

The main obstacle to this is not the pope himself, but the Curia, and this must be fought by all possible means, especially by thorough popular education ( primum adversus abususn ecclesiasticae potestatis remedium ), and by the assembling of national and provincial synods, the neglect of which is the main cause of the Church's woes.

The Council intended the projected Catechism to be the Church's official manual of popular instruction.

Honorius IV, more peaceably inclined than Martin IV, did not renounce the Church's support of the House of Anjou, nor did he set aside the severe ecclesiastical punishments imposed upon Sicily.

The committee also investigated possible KCIA influence on the Unification Church's campaign in support of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Initially William could not get support for the invasion but, claiming that Harold had sworn on sacred relics to support his claim to the throne after having been shipwrecked at Ponthieu, William was given the Church's blessing and nobles flocked to his cause.

In the context of the Council's stated intention “ to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society ”, Dignitatis Humanae spells out the Church's support for the protection of religious liberty.

The first to " minister in the Word and Doctrine ", and to dispense the sacraments ; — the second to assist in the inspection and government of the Church ; — and the third to " serve tables "; that is, to take care of the Church's funds destined for the support of the poor, and sometimes to manage whatever relates to the temporal support of the gospel and its ministers.

By commissioning some of Church's most well known paintings, Field hoped to lure investors into South America to support his ventures there.

When he failed to secure state support, he founded an independent Catholic school system which was taken into the Catholic Church's core at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884, which mandated that all Parishes have a parochial school and that all Catholic children be sent to those schools.

The Representative Body is responsible for the care of the Church's property and for funding many of the activities of the Church, including support for priests ' stipends and pensions.

He appeared before the Congregation Church's General Association to appeal for support for their mission.

The encyclical also affirms the Church's opposition to adultery and divorce, and its support of wives as home-makers.

In 1911 he was baptized as a Catholic, but in 1923, disillusioned over the Church's support for the war, he left the Catholic Church, claiming sarcastically that he was motivated " primarily by antisemitism ", i. e. indignation at Max Reinhardt's use of the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg as the venue for a theatrical performance.

She is the joint Patron of Missio, a charity which is the Catholic Church's official support organisation for overseas mission.

These included the Catholic " family " ( which brought the Roman Catholic Church's support and the national Catholicism ideology ), the monarchist " family " ( or conservative right, composed of many former members of the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ), the traditionalist " family " ( issued from Carlism ), the military tendency ( figures close to Franco himself, including the so-called africanistas ) and the Azules themselves or national syndicalists, who controlled the bureaucracy of the so-called Movement: Falange, Sindicato and many others organizations, such as the veterans ' national grouping ( Agrupación Nacional de Excombatientes ), the women's section ( Sección Femenina ), etc.

articles 3 and 130 restricted the power of the Catholic Church as a consequence of the support given by the Mexican Church's Hierarchy to Victoriano Huerta dictatorship, article 27 stated in particular that foreign citizens cannot own land at the borders or coasts as a consequence of the United States occupation of Veracruz, and article 123 was designed to empower the labor sector as a consequence of the brutal repression of Cananea and strikes.

Many of the revolutionary leaders took radically anti-Catholic stances, inspired by their freemasonry, despite of the Church's overwhelming support by the people.

Moreover, due partially to disappointment in the Church's lack of support for the Abolitionist cause, and to a slowly growing desire to find secular solutions to social problems, the formerly pious and devout Congregationalist became an atheist.

" Some accused the Mayor of pushing the sale in exchange for the LDS Church's support of the Olympic Games, as the leadership of the church was initially divided over whether the city should host the games.

Statements by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a close colleague of Benedict XVI, especially a piece in The New York Times on July 7, 2005, appeared to support Intelligent Design, giving rise to speculation about a new direction in the Church's stance on the compatibility between evolution and Catholic dogma ; many of Schönborn's complaints about Darwinian evolution echoed pronouncements originating from the Discovery Institute, an interdenominational Christian think tank.

" This statement has been taken by some as support for interpreting the Church's teaching in terms of the prima scriptura perspective.

This pact was renounced in 1931, when the secular constitution of the Second Spanish Republic imposed a series of anticlerical measures that threatened the Church's hegemony in Spain, provoking the Church's support for the Francisco Franco uprising five years later.