Possible Clues:

• Risk of plague?
• Serious threat
• Soldiers facing great danger
• 'Dennis the ___'
• Hazard
• Threaten to show perhaps king and jack with an ace
• Hank Ketcham's Dennis, e.g.
• A threatening quality
• A church led by males and as it appears to potential female bishops?
• Soldiers very good when there's threat