The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but noreligious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, inReligions[2], volume 5, number 1, MDPI,→DOI, archived fromthe original on20 December 2014, pages219–257:
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation ofreligious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
2025 February 14, Collin Binkley, “Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines”, inAssociated Press[3]:
All U.S. states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from getting certain vaccines. Most also allow exemptions forreligious or other nonmedical reasons.
religious priest,religious sister,religious brother
1878, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast,The American Catholic Quarterly Review, page236:
Thereligious vows are either simple or solemn. Vows are solemn according to the more common opinion, not, for instance, because of any solemnity attending the making of them, but because of the will of the Church.
2001, John P. Mack,Priests: An Inside Look, Saint Mary's Press,→ISBN, page28:
Thereligious priest lives his priesthood vocation within thereligious congregation to which he belongs. He may serve within a parish or another institution, such as a school or a hospital. Unlike the diocesan priest, thereligious priest develops his identity from the charism of thereligious order and finds his community with the members of that order.
2002 May 16, F. Donald Logan,Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page61:
From the 1450s onward it was possible for a religious to have included in his dispensation a clause that allowed him, once beneficed, to wear the garb of a secular priest provided he wore hisreligious habit underneath.
2022 October 18, Bronagh Ann McShane,Irish Women inReligious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, Boydell & Brewer,→ISBN, page208:
Divergence inreligious rule and observance for women within the Franciscan order undoubtedly complicated the assimilation of the Irish Poor Clare sisters within Spanish convents.
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2009,Diarmaid MacCulloch,A History of Christianity, Penguin, published2010, page354:
Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellowreligious, Scholastica.
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