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Adapted from Robert Harris' hit novel, papal drama Conclave imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City and costars Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Fiennes’ fellow BAFTA and Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini.
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Jack Smart, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
Fresh off of eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, for his papal thriller Conclave, Edward Berger is among the other producers.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
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
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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Jack Smart, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
Fresh off of eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, for his papal thriller Conclave, Edward Berger is among the other producers.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for papal
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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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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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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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Even after the 14th-century Black Death, clerical households with wives and children thrived in Italy.—
Joelle Rollo-Koster,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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The contract was always only worth $8 million despite any clerical mistake.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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Lebanon’s system of government requires the new president to convene consultations with lawmakers to nominate a Sunni Muslim prime minister to form a new cabinet, a process that can often be protracted as factions barter over ministerial portfolios.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
9 Jan. 2025
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Dominic LeBlanc has since been appointed to succeed her and head the finance ministerial portfolio.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
6 Jan. 2025
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The southern tradition is rooted partly in a century-old revolt against the privileges granted to Brahmans, the priestly caste that sits at the top of Hinduism’s ancient social hierarchy.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2025
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Francis has long made prison ministry an important part of his priestly vocation and has made several visits to Rebibbia since becoming pope in 2013 while also including prison visits in many of his foreign trips.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Judson University, a nonprofit evangelical Christian school founded as Judson College in 1963, is named after American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma, the school’s website said.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2025
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The president received the backing of about eight out of 10 white evangelical Christian voters in the 2024 election, according to an AP VoteCast analysis.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.—
Tad Friend,
The New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2022
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Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2017
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“Papal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/papal. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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