ecclesiastics

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“So many disloyal actions on the part of ecclesiastics are born of the lack of a sense of having been shown compassion, and by the habit of averting one’s gaze, the habit of indifference.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2019

But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012

The gold canopy, the procession of ecclesiastics, the charming boys’ choir.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2010

French ecclesiastics, to whom democracy meant Jacobinism and anticlericalism, were especially outraged.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for denouncing the sins of the rich, this is largely done, and especially by "lively young ecclesiastics" in great towns.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John