Ironically, the new machine tended to undermine Catholic Church authority.

具有讽刺意味的是，这种新仪器往往会削弱天主教会的权威性。

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Before, as a lecture, I was bombarded by people expressing their difficulties with some form of church authority.

以前我演讲时，人们以教会权威的某种形式一个劲地向我叫苦。

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The report singles out Ireland’s Department of Education, meant to regulate the schools, for running “toothless” inspections that overlooked glaring problems and deferred to church authority.

报告指出，理应监管学校的爱尔兰教育部门，因为实行“没有震慑性”的检查而忽略了显而易见的问题并遵从着教会的权威。

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These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

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He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

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Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.

中产阶级的清教徒像弥尔顿，发现自己,把议会的职权看得比国王查尔斯的权力要重,甚至比英格兰正式的教会的权力还重要。

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The third complication is that England has an established church whose authority has been intertwined with the state's for five centuries.

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Yet his response to the abuse crisis, which was ultimately a severe crisis of authority, and arguably the greatest test of the Church's authority since the Reformation, was insufficient.

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Then came a fall in the influence of the Catholic church, whose authority had rested on a deft fusion between religion and patriotism.

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