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Recent Examples of apostolic
His decision to appeal prompted Bruckner, who works as a ministry assistant at a Colorado nondenominational church, to ask Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, to review the court record.
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
High-profile converts, including actors, politicians and even some former New Atheists themselves, have brought traditional, apostolic Christianity to the forefront of the culture war for the American mind.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 12 May 2024
During the delivery of his Urbi et Orbi message, the traditional apostolic blessing and message to the world, the pope’s voice sounded hoarse at times, but improved from previous weeks.
—Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
High-profile converts, including actors, politicians and even some former New Atheists themselves, have brought traditional, apostolic Christianity to the forefront of the culture war for the American mind.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 12 May 2024
During the delivery of his Urbi et Orbi message, the traditional apostolic blessing and message to the world, the pope’s voice sounded hoarse at times, but improved from previous weeks.
—Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostolic
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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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It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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Francis isn’t about to let a storm get in the way of him and his papal duties.Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
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The conservative evangelical Awaken Church was holding its first service in the city as part of a long effort to establish a church there, and some residents were protesting.Maura Fox, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Republican Party and Trump himself have spent the past several years pushing an increasingly anti-trans agenda, in what some experts have described as an ongoing ploy to lock up the evangelical vote.Samantha Riedel, Them, 13 Dec. 2024
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Sponsor reserves the right to correct clerical or typographical errors in promotional materials.Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
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Loughlin might get a break in the daily monotony with a job that includes clerical work, cooking, baking, food prep, dishwashing or cleaning.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Its brand is now recognizable across the country from bicycle stands in cities to ministerial meetings.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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On the same day, the Gulf Cooperation Council hosted a rare informal joint GCC-Iranian ministerial meeting, the first in more than 17 years, during which members affirmed the Gulf states’ unwillingness to allow their territory and airspace to be used to launch attacks against Iran.Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
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Emblazoned with the likes of a pastoral chinoiserie landscape, cascading blossoms, and gliding herons, the 12 designs range from 6 to 14 inches in diameter, ideal for all dinner party configurations.Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024
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Addressing the difficulty of the season is more than pastoral for her.Jason DeRose, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
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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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“Apostolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostolic. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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