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Recent Examples of confessor
The same thing could be witnessed, in decades past, on more secular (but hardly less ceremonial) television programs like The Oprah Winfrey Show, where talk show luminaries act as confessors to erring movie stars.
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Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
This is Benny’s domain, where over 23 years he’s served as confidant and confessor for the city’s most elite — and the people who want to feel that way for just one night.
—Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
One confessor told him not to worry so much.
—New York Times, 18 June 2021
Those who were imprisoned for their faith but released – called confessors — were venerated by their communities in the same way.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
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Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
This is Benny’s domain, where over 23 years he’s served as confidant and confessor for the city’s most elite — and the people who want to feel that way for just one night.
—Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
One confessor told him not to worry so much.
—New York Times, 18 June 2021
Those who were imprisoned for their faith but released – called confessors — were venerated by their communities in the same way.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confessor
Noun
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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
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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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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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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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Jérémie attaches himself to a local bishop (Jacques Develay) in the process, sending everyone, including the village priest, into a psychosexual frenzy.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Holy Father has clearly identified for the U.S. bishops and Church the protection and advocacy for the dignity of migrants as the preeminent urgency at this moment.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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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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State of play: The archbishop's replacement appointed by Pope Francis is Bishop Edward Weisenburger, 64, an Illinois native who grew up in Oklahoma.—
Annalise Frank,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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Óscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador, preached radio sermons criticizing the government and army for violence and oppression of the poor in El Salvador during a national civil war.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Confessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confessor. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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