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Special prayer services are being conducted around the world, including Argentina, where the pope was born and served as an archbishop before his ascension to the papacy.
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
Also this week, while in the hospital, Francis has amended the Vatican's form of government, promoting two archbishops to new positions, and made contact with the parish priest in Gaza.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
Aymond, who has been archbishop since 2009, remains its leader.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
McElroy, a liberal ally of Pope Francis, was announced as the next archbishop two weeks before the inauguration of Trump, whom both McElroy and Francis have repeatedly criticized.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
Also this week, while in the hospital, Francis has amended the Vatican's form of government, promoting two archbishops to new positions, and made contact with the parish priest in Gaza.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
Aymond, who has been archbishop since 2009, remains its leader.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
McElroy, a liberal ally of Pope Francis, was announced as the next archbishop two weeks before the inauguration of Trump, whom both McElroy and Francis have repeatedly criticized.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop.—
Time,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Last month, days before his hospitalization, Pope Francis penned a letter to U.S. bishops that criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Francis left the hospital on March 23 after 38 days in hospital, the longest of his four stays since his election as pope 12 years ago.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
25 Mar. 2025
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In February, the palace said Charles and his wife Queen Camilla would travel to Rome in April for the couple to meet the 88-year-old pope, but days later Francis was taken to hospital with a severe respiratory infection.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2025
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Among the film’s interviewees are two former nuns at the school and the abbot who supervised several of the priests accused of rape and murder.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.—
Hannah Peart,
NBC News,
28 Oct. 2024
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The life of the court and contemplative life were two models in which the leisure of the lord, the prelate, and the warrior could function.—
Walter Benjamin,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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At the time of the bishops’ appeal, Lai had been imprisoned in solitary confinement for almost 1,000 days, and the prelates were polite ...—
George Weigel,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2025
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The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.—
David Tarrant,
Dallas News,
6 Apr. 2020
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In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations.—
Nicholas Rowan,
Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2020
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Davis has since worked as a professor, a dean and a university president.—
Elissa Nadworny,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
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Another dean, Sinclair, took Lyle into an office to wait for Anderson, who still couldn’t be reached, according to the complaint.—
Jessica Seaman,
The Denver Post,
21 Mar. 2025
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This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.—
Fr. Goran Jovicic,
National Review,
13 June 2021
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The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.—
Allie Gross,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Aug. 2017
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“Archbishop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archbishop. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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