How to Use "clerical" with Example Sentences

1. Newspapers demanded to know if the pope would meet victims of clerical sex abuse .
2. Alternatively , " pure " clerical power can use its prerogatives ( over sacraments like baptism or marriage or absolution ) to exercise authority over everybody else , including worldly rulers .
3. It 's a role that sadr , the scion of a prominent clerical family , has been building toward since 2003 .
4. King abdullah bin abdulaziz al saud , saudi arabia 's 87-year-old ruler , has engaged in a gradual programme of social reforms , some of them easing some restrictions against women , despite strong opposition from the fundamentalist clerical establishment .
5. On the same day police raided the home of a retired archbishop , drilled holes in the tomb of at least one cardinal ( looking for hidden papers ) and took away 450 documents from the office of a church committee that was probing clerical abuse .