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Upon receiving the proposal, he asks England's bishops several times to give him a clear justification for the invasion, which will necessarily entail the deaths of thousands of men.
How many Catholics who signed the letter to Gore know, for example, that some two-thirds of the government-appointed Catholic bishops have been reconciled with Rome?
Bishops are officially appointed by the papal bull, as are other high-ranking officials.
Among the most controversial of a plate of new proposals from a committee of American bishops: church approval of theology department hires, majority quotas of "faithful Catholics" for faculties and trustee boards, and professions of faith and fidelity to the church on the part of university presidents.
Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.