`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.

While in Jerusalem he made a gift of a gold chalice to the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ordination of another bishop, some churches require two or three bishops participate, either to ensure sacramental validity or to conform with church law.

While the cardinalate has long been expanded beyond the Roman pastoral clergy and Roman Curia, every cardinal priest has titular church in Rome, though they may be bishops or archbishops elsewhere, just as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburbicarian dioceses around Rome.

While church members point out that followers are free to choose to seek conventional medical treatment, most rely exclusively on healing by prayer.

While members of the Christian Science church claim their religion is based in, reconcilable with, and part of Christianity ( being based on the teachings of Jesus ), there are orthodox Christian theologians and others who disagree.

While other theories may insist on the truth of the former, the latter precept of congregationalism gives the entire theory a unique character among plans of church government.

While other forms of church government are more likely to define " tyranny " as " the imposition of unjust rule ", a congregationally-governed church would more likely define tyranny as " transgression of liberty " or equivalently, " rule by one man ".

While some of the prose in the new revelations seems designed to guide the denomination on matters of church governance and doctrine, others are seen as inspirational.

While these methods of distributing communion are not accepted in Roman Catholic churches, one such church provides a mechanical dispenser to allow those intending to communicate to place in a bowl, without touching them by hand, the hosts for use in the celebration.

While critics point to the common practice of pseudonymous writing in the ancient world, they usually fail to point out that this practice, though common in the culture, was not common in personal letters, and was categorically rejected by the early church ( cf.

While the Roman church was presumably founded by Jewish Christians, the exile of Jews from Rome in AD 49 by Claudius resulted in Gentile Christians taking leadership positions.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

While at the school he became friendly with the curate of the local parish church and became involved with activities there.

While some limit speaking in tongues to speech addressed to God-" prayer or praise ", others claim that speech in tongues is revelation from God to the church, and when interpreted into human language by those embued with the gift of interpretation of tongues for the benefit of others present, may be considered equivalent to prophecy.

While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, rock, church and gospel music.

While serving abroad, Adams married Louisa Catherine Johnson, the daughter of an American merchant, in a ceremony at the church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London.

While no compromise could ever be accepted by the dogmatic wing of the church, his sincere efforts at reconciliation gained him the approval of the major body of the church.

While he was saying Roman Catholic Mass in the parish church on Holy Innocents ' Day, 28 December 1384, he suffered a stroke, and died on the last day of the month.

While he took his start in affairs of church policy from the English legislation which was passed in the times of Edward I, he declined the connection into which his contemporaries brought it under the lead of Occam.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

While the claim that he had been made a dux under the emperor Probus is probably a fabrication, he certainly attained the rank of tribunus within the army, and during the reign of Carus he was raised to the position of Praeses, or governor, of the province of Dalmatia.

While it had attained nominal independence from Russia, its presidents maintained close ties with their neighbours.

While Campion had attained a considerable reputation in his own day, in the years that followed his death his works sank into complete oblivion.

While serving in Glina, he attained the rank of Captain, and became proficient in playing the piano, being taught by the military kapelnik of Glina.

While Basava understood shatsthala as a process with various stages to be attained in succession, Channabasavanna, Basava's nephew, differed radically from his uncle and held that a soul can reach its salvation in any stage.

While this might be understood as a declaration of independence, it can also be understood as an acknowledgement that Australia was already independent, leaving open the question of when independence had been attained.

While its singles attained moderate success, the album performed better on music charts than Eric B.

While in the Marines, he attained the rank of Sergeant, and was a decorated combat veteran, earning three battle stars and the Expert Rifleman's medal while serving with the famed 1st Marine Division in Korea.

While the other two stars of the series, Rob Newman and David Baddiel became major celebrities-playing to sell out audiences at Wembley Arena-Punt and Dennis never attained the same level of prominence as a double act.

While the NDP attained their best result in the party's history, some union leaders publicly criticized the NDP leadership immediately after the election for not being sufficiently focused on opposition to the Free Trade Agreement.

While the historical definition of child has varied, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child asserts that " A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.

While living in Illinois, he attained his first elected office as Sheriff of McLean County, Illinois.

While its singles attained moderate success, the album performed better on music charts than Eric B.

While 620 miles ( 1000 km ) east-southeast of St. Croix, Gloria attained hurricane status.

While the function of these was unclear, Whatley argued that they might provide a useful evolutionary example, indicating the " ways in which a bacterial mitochondrial transformation might have been attained.

While a student at that university he published his first work, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse ( 1857 ), which at once attained to great popularity.

Throughout the agonized internal monologue, represented through letters to his old tutor, he repeatedly comments on all of the affective ties that he has formed in his domestic life —“ the chains heart forged for itself ” As he begins to recover from the shock, the reader is led to believe that these “ chains ” are not worth the price of possible pain —“ By renouncing my attachments to a single spot, I extended them to the whole earth, and, while I ceased to be a citizen, became truly a man .” While in La Nouvelle Héloïse, the ideal is domestic, rural happiness ( if not bliss ), in Emile and its sequel, the ideal is “ emotional self-sufficiency which was the natural state of primitive, pre-social man, but which for modern man can be attained only by the suppression of his natural inclinations .”

While Suerbeer ’ s proselytisation and power policy eventually yielded little success, the competing Teutonic Order attained papal support more easily than the archbishop, thanks to its supraregional presence and comparative wealth.

While Theravada Buddhists view the Buddha as a human being who attained nirvana or Buddhahood, through human efforts, some Mahayana Buddhists consider him an embodiment of the cosmic Dharmakaya, born for the benefit of others.

While not an immediate success, over the succeeding decades and especially in the post-World War II period, the. 270 Winchester attained great popularity among gun owners and hunters, ranking it among the most popular and widely used cartridges worldwide.

While named a " trucker's tan ," such a tan line is not exclusive to truck drivers and can be attained by driving most motor vehicles.

While having great success hitting minor league pitching, Meulens never attained a permanent spot on the New York lineup, despite spending the entire 1991 season on the Yankees roster.

While playing for the Harvard Crimson, he attained All-Ivy League, All-New England and Division I-AA All-ECAC first team football honors.