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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
The good news about the release of Álvarez and the other 18 Catholic churchmen is tempered by the imposition of their exile and by the knowledge that other advocates for freedom in Nicaragua remain behind bars.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
The good news about the release of Álvarez and the other 18 Catholic churchmen is tempered by the imposition of their exile and by the knowledge that other advocates for freedom in Nicaragua remain behind bars.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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“Churchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/churchman. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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