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What People Are Saying Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, led Wednesday night's gathering, urging the faithful to pray for the pope's swift return to his apostolic mission.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025 -
In 2018, on her 110th birthday, Lucas, who is also the oldest living nun in the world, was honored with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, per Guinness World Records.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.—
Julia Hobbs,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2024
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Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.—
Caleb Wiegandt,
The Courier-Journal,
5 June 2023
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Because an employee is not eligible for unemployment benefits if he was fired for misconduct, a state doesn’t want to have to consult papal doctrine, for example, to determine if a priest was legitimately terminated.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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His discharge comes after 38 days of medical ups and downs that raised the prospect of a papal resignation or funeral.—
Danielle Wallace,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2020
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That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.—
Stefano Pitrelli,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2023
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Among the cultural attractions are the ecclesiastical architecture and art—the baroque St. Matthew’s Parish in the centro storico and the Sanctuary of Nostra Signora delle Penne perched on the Capo Mele promontory.—
Catherine Sabino,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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As Charles Mercier writes in his book, Christianity in Western and Northern Europe, Monaco has an ecclesiastical commitment to the Roman Catholic Church that is unique on the continent.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Mar. 2025
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In game theory, there are two types of canonical games.—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The canonical example is of course our own moon, a decently big chunk of rock that orbits Earth.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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In 1832, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a missionary living with the Cherokee Nation for refusing to take an oath to obey the laws of Georgia.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
12 Feb. 2025
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This year’s theme is A Heart for the Harvest and will feature four missionary families representing Namibia, Portugal, South Africa and South Sudan.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2025
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Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors, and interfaith coalitions are urging the administration to abandon any return to such practices, calling them morally indefensible and antithetical to American values.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Huckabee repeatedly used evangelical Christian language at the hearing to explain his strong support for Israel and its right-wing government.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Diaconal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diaconal. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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