canon law

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Recent Examples on the Web Prosecutors, for their part, insisted that the defense rights had all been respected, defended the legitimacy of the trial and Francis' executive decrees and reminded lawyers that the church's canon law forms the basis of Vatican law, not Italian legislation. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 4 Oct. 2021 The attorney, canon law specialist the Rev. Pius Pietrzyk, told the Tribune that some incidents — buying a cassock for a seminarian who couldn’t afford one, or reserving a hotel conference room where alumni of a Catholic high school club could play cards — were viewed as boundary violations. John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022 Francis remained in charge of the Vatican and the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and in the hospital, according to canon law. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 8 June 2023 Burke, 73, holds a doctorate in canon law. Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021 See all Example Sentences for canon law 
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Noun
  • Consider exploring new philosophies, signing up for a course or setting plans to visit destinations that inspire you.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The author identifies four credibility attributes that Davis incorporates into his leadership philosophy: Integrity, Intention, Capability, and Results.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Du Châtelet was searching for a grand synthesis of Newtonian, Cartesian, and Leibnizian ideas, in the way that Viennese visionaries of the nineteen-twenties hoped to unify all the sciences, and in the way that later thinkers tried to reconcile quantum physics with Einstein—and both with theology.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For example, Jack Lillie, a musician, deferred to his ambitious wife, R. S., a gifted medium who traveled the American west lecturing about Spiritualist theology.
    Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The people who dominate these institutions demographically also tend to share the dominant ideologies.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Officials say Philippi was motivated by the white supremacist ideology known as accelerationism that stems from neo-Nazi views.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024

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