church suffering

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. the souls in purgatory.

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Example Sentences

The Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement all passed without the church suffering vandalism or attack, according to available records.

From Washington Post

A meditation on how to revitalize a Church suffering encroaching secularization in the West, the exhortation echoed the zeal often heard from evangelical Protestants who have won over disaffected Catholics in the pope's native Latin America.

From Reuters

Here is another class in a nearby church, suffering not only from moral and intellectual neglect, but from physical as well.

From Project Gutenberg

Schism is possible only in the Church Militant, for the members of the Church Suffering and the Church Triumphant cannot fall away from unity.

From Project Gutenberg

The members of the Church have different offices, but there is among them a community of spiritual goods, the Sacraments being a bond of union, and each one profiting according to his condition in the good works done by others, The Church suffering is assisted by our suffrages, while we in turn are helped by the intercessions of the Church triumphant.

From Project Gutenberg