How to Use churchman in a Sentence

churchman

noun

• Frozen with dread, the churchmen heard how a cocky Niemöller had promised that everything would be fine.
  — Doris Bergen, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• The too-few endowment dollars led to a joining of forces in 1930, but squabbles soon led the churchmen to back out.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 15 June 2018
• His trial will be the first of a churchman with his rank in Vatican City’s criminal court.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 3 July 2021
• Finally, after eight days, they were rescued by a churchman who drove them to Texas.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2019
• But in 1936 Niemoller signed a petition with other churchmen.
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• At 71, the San Felipe bishop is younger than the age, 75, at which all bishops must offer their resignation to the pope, who can accept or ask the churchmen to stay on a few more years.
  — Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• The ceremony to formally give the churchmen the red cardinal hat will be held on Oct. 5 at the Vatican.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2019
• The abuse that came to light as a result of Saviano’s work prompted Cardinal Law, Boston’s highest-ranking churchman, to step down.
  — William J. Kole, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021
• The abuse that came to light as a result of Saviano's work prompted Cardinal Law, Boston's highest-ranking churchman, to step down.
  — CBS News, 28 Nov. 2021
• Three of the churchmen chosen to receive the cardinal red work in Africa, a continent where the Church has experience growth in recent decades.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• During his stay at the Vatican mission, Noriega was a virtual recluse in a room, opening the door only when meals were brought, said a churchman who did not want to be named.
  — By Martin Merzer and Sam Dillon, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• Mickens said, when the church would have defended Vatican churchmen.
  — Josephine McKenna, USA TODAY, 1 July 2017
• In the past, synods have been talkfests by churchmen who made nonbinding proposals to the pope to consider in a future document.
  — Nicole Winfield, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• These are churchmen who care for migrants, promote dialogue with Muslims and minister to the faithful in poor, far-flung missionary posts.
  — Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• These are churchmen who care for migrants, promote dialogue with Muslims, and minister to the faithful in poor, far-flung missionary posts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• But there’s no way to know who determined the imagery, conquered artist or conquering European churchman.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Two top Vatican officials will also receive the honor of joining churchmen who vote for new popes in secret conclaves.
  — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
• The leaks about the hand-delivery of this letter to the pontiff may be evidence itself that senior churchmen are losing confidence in his pontificate.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Feb. 2018
• The situation in Boston turned out to be the tip of an iceberg of abuse and its cover-up, where churchmen preferred protecting the reputation of the institution rather than the innocence of children.
  — Phillip Pullella, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2017
• The origins and details surrounding Eostre are unknown, but her existence was first reported in the writings of an early English churchman, Bede.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 6 Apr. 2023
• Wealthy Catholics are putting money behind initiatives to discredit Francis’ allies with the goal of electing a conservative, doctrine-minded churchman as the next pope.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• In order to shame churchmen and laypeople alike into being less focused on wealth and luxury, moralists mobilized all the rhetorical weapons at their disposal.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Such tickets can be obtained via special request to the papal household from embassies, high-ranking churchmen or Vatican officials.
  — David Bauder, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2017
• That means, increasingly, the men who will vote for whoever succeeds him, in the event of his resignation or death, are churchmen supportive of his values, priorities and perspectives.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• The 14th-century English churchman and philosopher is best known for Ockham’s Razor, which suggests that simple explanations are better than more complicated ones.
  — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• Between the protesters, the churchmen, and the legislature, Samaritan’s Purse has been under unceasing attack from people who cannot abide the thought that the moral tradition of some religious group does not affirm a particular set of behaviors.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 20 Apr. 2020
• One of my favorite genres of Catholic literature is the book-length interview: the Pope or some other high-ranking churchman sits down with a reporter or other layman, both operating on the assumption that conversation tends toward truth.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2015
• Zerbo’s clerical resume reveals him to be a churchman working for reconciliation in society, a virtue repeatedly stressed by Francis.
  — Frances D'emilio, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
• In a country bloodied by Islamist extremism, Zerbo distinguished himself as a churchman working for social reconciliation — one of the pontiff’s priorities.
  — Frances D'emilio, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017

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