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Recent Examples of churchman
Writing in Spanish, Pope Francis responded to five main concerns put forth by several high-ranking churchmen this summer.
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Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
Those two churchmen guide flocks in geopolitical areas of keen concern to the Vatican.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
The pope announced his picks during his customary weekly appearance to the public in St. Peter’s Square, saying the ceremony to formally install the churchmen as cardinals will be held on Sept. 30.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
Other churchmen chosen to receive the cardinal red include those from Cape Town, South Africa; Juba, South Sudan, which the pope visited earlier this year on a pilgrimage; Penang, Malaysia; and Lodz, Poland.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
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Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
Those two churchmen guide flocks in geopolitical areas of keen concern to the Vatican.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
The pope announced his picks during his customary weekly appearance to the public in St. Peter’s Square, saying the ceremony to formally install the churchmen as cardinals will be held on Sept. 30.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
Other churchmen chosen to receive the cardinal red include those from Cape Town, South Africa; Juba, South Sudan, which the pope visited earlier this year on a pilgrimage; Penang, Malaysia; and Lodz, Poland.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchman
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Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, a British clergyman who is the dean of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican.—
Armond White,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2.—
Rachel Dobkin,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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Within the faith there’s no real hierarchy; there are no popes, priests or clergy.—
Peter Kiefer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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In an interview with Vatican News, the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the Church of the Holy Family, the only Roman Catholic church in Gaza, says Pope Francis has called from the hospital at 8 p.m. Gaza time every night.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
18 Feb. 2025
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Each celebrates a matriarch who was present at the Sunday dinners of Hall’s childhood, including her maternal grandmother, Celestine, to a close family friend, Miss Sally, to the preacher’s wife, Mrs. Brooks.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
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There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Declining giving and church attendance are a national phenomenon, but some on the board of deacons saw it as an existential threat.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Mojtaba’s rise, or the rise of any other cleric, will thus prompt the country’s people to further pressure Tehran.—
Akbar Ganji,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Feb. 2025
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Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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The reverend said the mayor’s leadership has been undermined by Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo, which left open the possibility of reviving the mayor’s case at a later date.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Churchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchman. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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