church suffering

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

1. the souls in purgatory.

Example Sentences

The Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement all passed without the church suffering vandalism or attack, according to available records.

From Washington Post

Zuniga was found in 2012 by a passer-by in the parking lot of a church, suffering from what appeared to be self-inflicted stab wounds.

From Washington Times

Zuniga was found in 2012 by a passer-by in the parking lot of a church, suffering from what appeared to be self-inflicted stab wounds.

From Seattle Times

A meditation on how to revitalize a Church suffering encroaching secularization in the West, the exhortation echoed the zeal often heard from evangelical Protestants who have won over disaffected Catholics in the pope's native Latin America.

From Reuters

Here is another class in a nearby church, suffering not only from moral and intellectual neglect, but from physical as well.

From Project Gutenberg