And I am lucky to be here. It is great." For Catholics, Easter has been overshadowed by sex-abuse scandals in the Church, and accusations Pope Benedict did not do enough to discipline priests who abused children.

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So given all of the controversies raging around the question of the proper government of the church, and Milton is deeply invested in these matters, Milton feels obliged to do something.

因此考虑到对应当来领导教会的适当政府的问题,所引发的相当争议，弥尔顿已经深深的陷在这些事务里，无法脱身了，他觉得自己需要做些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A lot of what brings me to this table and this conversation is the combination of what I do now as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church, and what I did previously as a wilderness instructor.

促使我来这个讲堂,参与大家讨论的原因,应该是由于我的工作,我现在是长老会的受命教长，曾经是野外活动的教练。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The English Reformation, which begins with Henry VIII wanting to divorce and kill his various wives along the way, still had an awful lot to do with the resistance to the power of Rome and the power of the Catholic Church as an institution.

英国的宗教改革,自亨利八世开始,就是那个总爱离婚,且一辈子患有杀妻癖的君王,他仍然还要面对强大的罗马教廷,以及天主教会的反对与干涉

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选