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Recent Examples of monsignor
Diddi also heard from Perlasca on March 1, 2022, when the monsignor filed a formal complaint alleging Chaouqui had threatened him and claimed to be working with prosecutors.
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Nicole Winfield, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022
The couple wrote their own vows, which were officiated by a Catholic monsignor and a Presbyterian minister.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
He was soon named a monsignor, an honor given by Pope John Paul II.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
After the monsignor relayed this story to the sniper task force, authorities phoned police in Alabama and learned that fingerprints from the store hadn’t yet been sent to the FBI for identification.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
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Nicole Winfield, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022
The couple wrote their own vows, which were officiated by a Catholic monsignor and a Presbyterian minister.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
He was soon named a monsignor, an honor given by Pope John Paul II.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Oct. 2022
After the monsignor relayed this story to the sniper task force, authorities phoned police in Alabama and learned that fingerprints from the store hadn’t yet been sent to the FBI for identification.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsignor
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The prelate suggested that any rush toward legalizing civil divorce could undermine Filipino families – the foundational aspect of society, according to the country’s constitution.Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024
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Archbishop José Gomez, the soft-spoken, hard-line prelate.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
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Or, how the Catholic Church elects a pope (sort of).Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Inside the pope’s compound, he’s got a theater that was built in 900 AD.Denise Quan, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
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Allegation #3: Former Penn admissions dean airs frustrations Monday’s court filing also says the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, gave the children of donors preferential treatment.Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Instead, CEOs and deans are letting right-wing activists bully them into junking the whole project.The Week UK, theweek, 15 Dec. 2024
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David Niven is a young bishop who's so tripped up by ambition and the desire to build a cathedral that he's forgotten what's truly important...even his own family.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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When Juan Diego returned to the bishop and opened the tilma to show them the roses, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared printed on the fabric.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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The cathedral’s thunderous organ, its 8,000-pipes painstakingly restored and cleaned of toxic dust, will also respond to the archbishop’s invocation, with four organists playing a variety of melodies.Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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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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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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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 abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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“Monsignor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsignor. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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