First, the data are offered primarily from
clergy perspective and not all variables were defined, thus it is impossible to know how closely the reported behaviors align with actual behaviors (e.g., a clergyperson reporting that he or she feels depressed much of the time may look different between
clergy because this is based on self perception and their own definition of depression).
The Church of England is to debate proposals to axe bishops and other senior
clergy posts as part of a series of cost-cutting measures.
When
clergy refer members of their congregations to social workers or psychologists, they typically turn to people who share their religious values, but this approach may not provide people with the care they need, maintains Glen Milstein, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the City College of New York (CCNY).
Hitler's Priests: Catholic
Clergy and National Socialism.
13 (VOI) Co A member of the endowments' committee on Karbala's provincial council called on the Shiite religious
clergy in Najaf to allow its counterpart in Karbala to play a role, by permitting preachers from Karbala's
clergy to lead Friday prayers at Imam al-Hussein Shrine; an issue which is currently limited exclusively to Najaf's
clergy.
Members of the
clergy and addiction professionals can be wonderful allies in helping people find and maintain recovery.
Pulpit and Politics:
Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium.
Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural
Clergy by Muriel Mellow McGill-Queen's University Press
Having read February's The Examined Life ("Let's not rush into this") by Bryan Cones, I was troubled to see Cones use the phrase "married
clergy" as if such did not exist in the church since Vatican II.
The evangelical
clergy who founded Christianity Today in 1956 hoped to give a more scholarly and constructive identity to their faith.
Not long after the Ohio
clergy's complaint to the IRS became public, Robertson's son, Gordon, the co-host of the "700 Club," derided the action by the Ohio
clergy and repeated a Religious Right canard that the First Amendment does not provide for a separation of church and state.
In a written statement, the Reverend John Trigilio Jr., president of the Confraternity of Catholic
Clergy, asked the U.S.
CLTR was founded in 1987 to provide legal, tax and risk management resources and training for
clergy and religious organizations.
Faithful Catholics blame that neglect for earning the priesthood the title a "gay" profession, and for helping bring about the tide of
clergy abuse scandals that have rocked the North American Church.
More dramatic still, according to Greeley, was the revolution that the laity and the "lower
clergy" (presumably the parish priests rather than the bishops and chancery officials) effected in the U.S.
