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“The power to ‘define a crime and ordain its punishment’ is an exclusively legislative function,” the justices wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

The SBC ousted Saddleback Church in Costa Mesa, once the second-largest megachurch in the denomination, earlier this year over its decision to ordain female pastors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2023

It also acknowledged the need to train more Afaan Oromo speaking priests and agreed to ordain more ethnic Oromos among high ranking clergy, it said in a statement.

From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2023

Then Scythe Mandela said, “Ransom Paladini, we have chosen not to ordain you as a scythe. Wherever life leads you, we wish you well. You are dismissed.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

For now, the government seems confident that experts can indeed devise a safe, rigorous and consistent system for deciding which patients live and which ones die, as the statute ordains.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021

Some are even considering leaving the Catholic Church to join other communities, including a movement that ordains women priests.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

It also suggested that future appointments might be influenced by a bishop's views on women clergy, saying that "many dioceses will want to insist that their diocesan bishop should be someone who ordains women".

From Reuters ● May 24, 2013

Her writing has always been hostile to the idea of a primitive, “natural” womanhood that ordains us to behave in certain ways.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2012

I bent above each one, and gently said: ‘Wake from your sleep: no more sweet slumber. Come, we sail: the Lady Kirke so ordains it.’

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

A onetime seminarian — he left three years shy of being ordained a Catholic priest — Reilly was no saint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Among the most influential voices leading the intellectual pushback to Project Spire now is Lord Nigel Biggar, an ordained Church of England priest and a former Christian ethics academic at Oxford University.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Menjivar-Ayala, who is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, was ordained as a priest in 2004 and became a bishop in 2023.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

When she was ordained in 2009 at age 65, she was hired as the rabbi at the same Morgan Hill synagogue and worked there until 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

She held her hand up, as she had seen other ordained candidates do.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

But ordaining bishops without the Pope's consent is regarded as a serious violation of the unity of the Church.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

In 1988, Pope John Paul II issued a similar appeal to that of Pope Leo but failed to stop the society from ordaining bishops.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

In 1787-91, Americans dramatically strengthened their union by ordaining a new-minted document, the Constitution, which repeatedly referred to American citizenship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2025

And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the ”Constitution” was "to form a more perfect Union."

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023

They speak and write of Him as One, ordaining the salvation of the world through Christ, and Himself sanctifying those who were appointed to assist in the work.

From The Essential Faith of the Universal Church Deduced from the Sacred Records by Martineau, Harriet