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Recent Examples of diocesan
David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
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
Their database contains many clergy who don’t appear on official diocesan lists and so aren’t in our database.
—Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2020
The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas to Chile.
—Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas and Chile.
—NBC News, 17 Dec. 2019
Insurers have covered a large portion of settlements reached in previous diocesan bankruptcy cases, a 2018 study by Penn State professor Marie Reilly found, with victims receiving an average award of $371,500.
—CBS News, 23 Sep. 2019
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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
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
Their database contains many clergy who don’t appear on official diocesan lists and so aren’t in our database.
—Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2020
The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas to Chile.
—Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas and Chile.
—NBC News, 17 Dec. 2019
Insurers have covered a large portion of settlements reached in previous diocesan bankruptcy cases, a 2018 study by Penn State professor Marie Reilly found, with victims receiving an average award of $371,500.
—CBS News, 23 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diocesan
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The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.—
Julia Hobbs,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2024
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Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.—
Caleb Wiegandt,
The Courier-Journal,
5 June 2023
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Others, like the lecherous bishop (Peppe Lanzetta), seek to use her cerebral interests for a few quick sins of the flesh.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Which bishop best represented the biblical calls for serving the marginalized in our society, the fawning cardinal or the prophetic bishop?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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In 2018, on her 110th birthday, Lucas, who is also the oldest living nun in the world, was honored with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, per Guinness World Records.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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Pope Francis's stop in East Timor is part of his ongoing apostolic journey across four countries between Sept. 2 and Sept. 13.—
Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News,
Fox News,
10 Sep. 2024
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Klobuchar will issue a call to order, and Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York, and the Rev. Franklin Graham will deliver an invocation.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2025
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He was named the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardin... Corbis via Getty Images ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Helena Skinner contributed to this report.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Heading into the evening, the splashy screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked had tied the papal succession drama Conclave for the most nominations in the film categories, with 11 apiece.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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The papal bull proclaiming the Jubilee urges peacemaking, a spirit of welcome toward migrants, and openness toward having children.—
Timothy Gabrielli,
The Conversation,
29 Jan. 2025
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Several Christian groups in the United States have also called for prayers for the pope.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Vatican hasn’t specified what type of respiratory tract infection the pope has.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2020
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That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.—
Stefano Pitrelli,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2023
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The prelate continued by ticking off a laundry list of crucial jobs and roles that undocumented immigrants play in American society as Trump glowered, flanked by First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2025
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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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“Diocesan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diocesan. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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