All of them consider earnestly whether the religious are to be curas of souls, and much more whether they are to be curas of justice.
For this is the observance in América, in order to save the freedom of the elections in what concerns the regular superiors, and in order to prevent the religious who are curas from being free from the vow of obedience.
Next to them came the confraternities with their pennants and banners, and after these the parishes from the suburbs of this city, with their crosses, and their curas clad in black cloaks.
The cathedral has a good choir of singers, also chaplains and many able clerics, and two curas and two sacristans.
The question of episcopal visitation of the regular curas is already vital, and the later conflicts over this question are plainly foreshadowed, and even begun.
And one might doubt whether the superior could impose on those who should be thus firm in their purpose the precept of obedience, so that they should subject themselves as curas to an ordinary and to tho choice of a governor.
The regulars are not curasfor justice, but for charity, and they have taken charge of the missions for lack of other ministers.
As a rule, there are no difficulties at all in the other bishoprics; for, as the livings there are almost always filled by religious, the curas easily allow themselves to be visited by a person of their own class.
This chart appears at the end of the volume, and enumerates various villages of each province, and the curas in charge of them.
Perhaps this subjection of the curas to the bishops and vice-patrons will have resulted in great advantages; but there is no doubt that the relaxation of morals which the regular superiors foresaw has been verified.
Consequently, the curas need great courage in order to calm themselves and to persevere in the even tenor of their life.
He discusses the relations between the curas and civil alcaldes--the former being often the protectors of the Indians against the latter.
The curas of the above-mentioned villages are the outside vicars of their respective districts.
Some years later, bishoprics were erected; and from that moment began a struggle between the bishops and the monastic orders as to whether or no the friar curas should be subject to the diocesan visit.
The religious of St. Augustine still resisted, which caused Anda to have all the curas in Pampanga arrested, and to send the provincial and definitors to España.
The same sums are enjoyed by the bishops of Camarines and Cagayán, with their curas and sacristans.
It is to be noted, in regard to this ecclesiastical division, that it is found to be subject to continual alterations, in regard both to the number of ecclesiastical vicariates, and to the curas who discharge these duties.
Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis=--You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem.
There are many of the country curas who lead most exemplary lives, and do much good.
The words were the singular but simple ones of the poet Ebn Zaiat:--"Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.
Consequently, I cannot, even though your Lordship orders it, abstain from appointing curas and vicars, choosing from three whom your Lordship ought to nominate, the person whom I shall consider most suitable.
Such incompetency will be the best justification for the repugnance which the religious feel for being curas in the manner which the archbishop insists on.
The orders are working in Filipinas in entire harmony and amity, but this does not suit the archbishop; and they feel that they cannot hope for peace or safety so long as they act as curasthere with Camacho as archbishop.
There has been and is much talk of the influence of the curas in the villages.
In some places the curas have to lock the doors of the church after mass, so that the people will not depart without hearing the sermon, and this in places quite religious, as is Pangasinan.
Some curas have assured me that not only do the girls not consider it dishonorable, but think, on the contrary, that they can prove by this means that they have had lovers.
No great importance is attached to these slips, however much the curas endeavor to make them do so.
From that time until the year 1688, various curas had successive charge of the administration of those souls in order to teach them the road of glory.
For, the reduced product from those villages, in regard to the ecclesiastical stipend, which was formerly insufficient to support two or three curas with great misery, was now sufficient to support six or more religious.
He shall employ correction and punishment whenever necessary, strictly within the limits and exercise of curas as above stated, and nothing further.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.