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Recent Examples of chaplain
Listen to this article An NYPD chaplain had an unholy hookup, according to police.
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Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
Additionally, the chaplain program received $567, the canine account received $659.09, and the jail canteen received $18.24.
NEW POSITIONS
McLeod County commissioners greenlit several personnel additions aimed at addressing various needs within county services.
—Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Among those Francis recognized this week as being one day potentially worthy of sainthood was Emil Joseph Kapaun, an American chaplain who served with the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
The airport said Tuesday chaplains were available on-site.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
Additionally, the chaplain program received $567, the canine account received $659.09, and the jail canteen received $18.24.
NEW POSITIONS
McLeod County commissioners greenlit several personnel additions aimed at addressing various needs within county services.
—Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Among those Francis recognized this week as being one day potentially worthy of sainthood was Emil Joseph Kapaun, an American chaplain who served with the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
The airport said Tuesday chaplains were available on-site.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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While in town, travelers can also visit the Rosa Parks Museum, which tells the story of the Montgomery bus boycott and the fight against segregation, and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where Dr. King served as a pastor.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
14 Mar. 2025
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Despite all the pastor’s conventionality and sanctimony, there are flames between them, but those flickers run fairly cool until a breaking point in which Manders at last makes explicit reference to them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.—
Lauren Oyler,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2024
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Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
14 Dec. 2024
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
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His maternal grandparents were medical missionaries in Liberia, helping to ignite Fuller’s interest in medicine, Branson said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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The wife of a Minnesota missionary killed in the African country of Angola last year has been charged with his murder, the lead pastor of the Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes confirmed in a letter to his congregation.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Unlike a synod of bishops, this will be a unique gathering of bishops, clergy, monks, friars, nuns and lay men and women.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Vatican office for the synod, or gathering of bishops, released a timetable through 2028 to implement the reforms and said Francis had approved the calendar last week.—
Colleen Barry,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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