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  • Here there is a superiority without tyrannie, for no minister hath a papall or monarchicall jurisdiction over his own flock, far lesse over other pastors and over all the congregations of a large dioces.

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • Polish pilgrims from the dioces of Krakow hold candles during a prayer vigil at the ancient Circus Maximus Arena in Rome on April 30, 2011, on the eve of the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • But what has happened is that hundreds of priests abused thousands of children, and the church, instead of kicking out the bad priests, shuffled them around to different parishes/dioces, and kept the scandals quiet and hidden.

    digg.com: Top News 2010

  • Relations between Bishop Joseph Martino, who leads the dioces of Scranton, and Misericordia University appear to be worsening.

    Inside Higher Ed 2009

  • "unto such tyme as the prior and convent could gett them conveyed out of the dioces," but Mr. Forster traverses this statement and adduces documentary evidence to show that, in various instances, "grithmen" were permanently domiciled in the diocese.

    The Customs of Old England

  • I started this thread as a joke, as I have already stated, I had no Idea that it was a world wide child abuse ring involving thousand of priest and hundreds of thousands of abused and trafficed children, I am mearly giving information that is freely available but when the amount of countrys and dioces involved gets into the hundreds I dont think I am wrong in saying that there are major crimes that are already prooven and a F***ing hell of a lot more that are going to come out of the woodwork in the near future.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Libellus brevis et utilis de articulis fidei et facramentis ecclefiae et preceptis decalogi cum quibufdam aliis annexis in fine, pro kftoribus et curatis ecclefiaram noftrae Lodovens.dioces. ad cradiendum plebes fibi commifl [as.

    Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit reverendissimus in Christo pater Matthæus Parker, archiepiscopus cantuariensis 1777

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