non-ecclesiastical

It also can't include Society non-ecclesiastical laics i.e. most of us, who would have to get permission from the local bishop to have the Society administer their Baptisms and Marriages.

Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English 2009

Interesting that they chose a Gothic Revival design, with its overtones of Christianity, but then I suppose that the Gothic look was still extremely popular in the 1870s and was used for so many non-ecclesiastical uses.

The Great Synagogue Sydney, 1878 Hels 2009

When he decided to re-communicate the bishop the Pope had neglected to first google him, a non-ecclesiastical process that would have disclosed the bishop's peculiar views.

Christopher Brauchli: The Pope and The Prelate 2009

I love the blog because most of what you write for ministers is completely appropriate for those of us in that non-ecclesiastical gray area: too dignified for hoochie-mama clothing, too sexy to do the schlumpy earth mother/Cambridge, MA grad student look.

Immunity And Anonymous PeaceBang 2006

According to their differing temperaments, different composers may swing towards either the right or the left wing of thought in these non-ecclesiastical expressions of ultimate things: Stanford may join with Whitman or Robert Bridges, Vaughan-Williams with Whitman or

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Schiller's _Nänie_, Goethe's _Gesang der Parzen_ (the first-fruits of the essentially modern spirit which has impelled so many composers to choral settings of great poetry) -- they deal with the ultimate things, but the expression is never, so to speak, orthodox: it is imaginative, sometimes perhaps ironical, but never anything but intensely non-ecclesiastical.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Nor should any chance be missed of associating the Faith, as distinct from affiliating it, with all progressive, non-political, non-ecclesiastical institutions, whether social, educational, or charitable, whose objectives harmonize with some of its tenets, and amongst whose members and supporters individuals may be found who will eventually embrace its truth.

Citadel of Faith 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Russell in reply moved that the surplus revenues of the Irish Church be used for non-ecclesiastical purposes.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

Polybius, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers in what we may call its primitive and non-ecclesiastical sense.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The ecclesiastical right of sanctuary ceased in England at the Reformation, but was after that date allowed to certain non-ecclesiastical precincts, which afforded shelter chiefly to debtors.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913