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Naim and his overly anxious single mom (Mia Wasikowska) attend rote church services in which the pastor looks to exorcise the LGBTQ+ from sinful boys who like boys and girls who like girls.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Cavaness is the 53rd pastor of Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, the sister church of Mother African Union.
—Natasha Brown, CBS News, 18 June 2026
This is hilarious and, also, a reference to the same pastor whose letter is briefly seen in episode seven.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 17 June 2026
It’s also revealed that Ryan has been carnally carrying on with the pastor’s son as well.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Cavaness is the 53rd pastor of Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, the sister church of Mother African Union.
—Natasha Brown, CBS News, 18 June 2026
This is hilarious and, also, a reference to the same pastor whose letter is briefly seen in episode seven.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 17 June 2026
It’s also revealed that Ryan has been carnally carrying on with the pastor’s son as well.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
Noun
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There was only one doctor left in the country who could do it, neurosurgeon Volodymyr Smolanka, acting rector of Uzhhorod National University.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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The Rectory As the name suggests, The Rectory was originally home to the rector of nearby All Saints’ Church and his 14 children.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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Robin, our hero, is the son of a country clergyman.—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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Nearly every murder is solved by the end of the episode, but despite the unusual twist of having the village vicar team up with the police, the real action comes from the relationships among the characters.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Meanwhile, churchmen claimed the authority to restrain violence, encouraged just wars and threatened violent behaviors with spiritual sanctions.—
Joëlle Rollo-Koster,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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German shepherd There's a reason German shepherds are the go-to breed for police, military and search-and-rescue work worldwide.—
Pat Mueller,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
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An artist and performer, Skrepetsky gained notice with his cutting portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and a conservative Moscow bishop, Patriarch Kirill.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
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The bishop was among 34 individuals and 47 entities that EU countries added to a Russia sanctions list Monday.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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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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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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