In regard to canonical legislation then in force, those ministers had the character of missionaries, and not of parish priests.
The editor's sketch of the argument of the "Instructions to Parish Priests" will help us to give a sufficient idea of its contents for our present purpose.
The instructions to parish priests, already quoted, says-- In honeste clothes thow muste gon Baselard ny bawdryke were thou non.
The Blagotchinny is a parish priest who is in direct relations with the Consistory of the Province, and who is supposed to exercise a strict supervision over all the other parish priests of his district.
If the number of parish priests of this type increase, the clergy may come to exercise great moral influence on the common people.
Thereafter the Fathers had to act as parish priests as well as missionaries.
What George Miles had said of them as missionaries, as quoted in a previous chapter, applied to them as parish priests, and told accordingly in result.
Popes, who authorized friars to act as parish priests, not in perpetuity, but so long as secular clergymen were insufficient in number to attend to the cure of souls.
The subject receives some illustration from literary sources; the "Instructions to Parish Priests" enjoins-- In honeste clothes thow muste gon Basdard ne bawdryke were thou non.
The abolition of the fees of parish priests, for births, marriages, or deaths, except in the cities.
The suppression of the duties of removal, paid by parish priests to the bishops in certain provinces.
A speedy augmentation of the benefices of parish priests.
But, for the same reason, each one needs three or four religious; and even that number must be on the road continually in order to fulfil their obligations as parish priests.
Let us conclude this matter by stating one other motive for the justification of our religious in resisting exercise as parish priests, when one tries to subject them to the visitation and correction of the bishops.
Considerable space is devoted to the subjection of religious to the episcopal visitation, when they act as parish priests.
Moreover, justice requires that they should, as parish priests, share the privileges and advantages allowed to the secular priests, which is not the case.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parish priests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
