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Until recently, only a Department of Corrections chaplain could join an execution team in the death chamber.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025 -
School chaplain bill fails in Senate A bill aimed at authorizing public schools to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain fell short of clearing the Arkansas Senate on Tuesday.—
Michael R. Wickline,
arkansasonline.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Mayall also served as a pastor for the St. Joseph Parish in Wilmette from July 2016 to December 2018, according to a separate letter sent Saturday to the Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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The church’s pastor serves on the board of directors of Archway Communities, a local nonprofit that manages the former Johnson & Wales campus.—
Matthew Geiger,
The Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2025
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Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2025
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The church is the spiritual home to about 500 families, according to the church's rector, the Rev. Bruce Freeman.—
Sarah Ventre,
NPR,
12 Jan. 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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On Wednesday, Francis' vicar for Rome urged his followers to silently pray for an hour for the pope before evening vespers services.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Sister Mary Thomas, the vicar, had come from Wisconsin to witness the event.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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It was supposed to be Trismegistus, but the maid tasked with telling the curate got distracted and forgot all but the first syllable.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 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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Before his passing on April 12, Dax, a German shepherd, fathered a litter of puppies.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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German shepherds are frequently used as working dogs, whether in the military or police, for patrolling, bomb detection, and search and rescue.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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