Holy Joe

slang

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Noun
  • Despite the fall, Francis held five meetings on Thursday according to the Vatican, including with Alvaro Lario, the President of the International Fund of Agricultural Development, and priests from an Argentine college based in Rome.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Visitation for a retired priest of the Chicago Archdiocese who died last week will take place at Kurtz Memorial Chapel on Friday, according to the archdiocese.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The committee members, all clergymen, had been summoned to report on the progress of their work.
    Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
  • At the same time, Ukrainian authorities have become increasingly suspicious of anyone with links to the Russian Orthodox Church, arresting and convicting clergymen of spying for Moscow.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Society Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Tara Isabella Burton A week with the street preachers of Sin City.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Sufism, often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islam, emphasizes a personal connection with the divine.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Members of Zide Door follow the Church of Ambrosia faith, which believes that psychedelics such as entheogenic, or psychoactive substances such as psilocybin mushrooms and DMT can lead to spiritual enlightenment, or access to the divine.
    Marni Rose McFall, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Days before the election, church deacons voted to oust their pastor for finally supporting the admission of a Black worshiper.
    Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Because everyone under the Roman Empire’s rule was heading to their villages of origin for the count, inns along the way were at capacity, says Bob Solis, a Catholic deacon who came from the Phoenix area to volunteer at the posada.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The reverends all have something poignant to say, and their sermons change by the minute.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Parents are heated after a reverend ruined the magic of Christmas for a group of children.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.
    Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.
    Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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