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The only hitch is getting the approval of Ming’s business partner, Master Man Kwok (Hui), a Taoist priest whose unparalleled reputation for performing funeral rites is equaled only by his strict observance of tradition.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
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Issues still exist, however, as a former L.A. Archdiocese priest pleads no contest to possession of child pornography.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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After the overthrow of the monarchy, Iranians voted in huge majorities for an explicitly Islamic republic and for a constitution that placed a clergyman, Khomeini, at its apex.Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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Trump has enjoyed endorsements from a smaller number of Black Pentecostal leaders, but without the same celebrity status as the Black Pentecostal or charismatic preachers backing Harris.Dara Delgado, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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Harris, a Baptist preacher, has a leg up against Dues in this red district, where nearly 60% of voters supported Donald Trump in 2020.Alexandria Sands, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Paintings such as Dark Pasture Encounter: Conduit (2023) and Night Prey, or (The Prey of the Terrible shall be Delivered), 2024, evoke the ecstatic, almost erotic experience of the divine.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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The resulting music is impressively precise and introspective, grappling with earthly concerns with poise, while also channeling the unexpected, iridescent revelations and comforts of the divine.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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Like many Black artists, going to church was routine for her family and played a significant role in her life, with her parents being a deacon and deaconess.Danielle Wright, Essence, 27 Sep. 2024
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Dad was an altar boy at Parumala; his father, who is buried there along with my grandmother, was a deacon.Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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In his letter, the reverend encouraged parishioners to participate in services and activities at the Oak Park location of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish.Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024
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The church’s current reverend, Matthew McHale, was serving at a Unitarian church in San Fernando during the pandemic.Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
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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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