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Recent Examples of papal
But just as Benitez selects his papal name of Innocent, O’Malley returns to share what he’s learned about the clinic in Switzerland where Benitez almost traveled for treatment.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
In a late scene, Bellini observes that every cardinal secretly has a papal name in mind.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
The papal conclave also includes Stanley Tucci, Sergio Castellitto, Lucian Msamati, and John Lithgow.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Watching this film is as close as most travelers will ever get to the papal conclave.
—Caroline Reilly, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
In a late scene, Bellini observes that every cardinal secretly has a papal name in mind.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
The papal conclave also includes Stanley Tucci, Sergio Castellitto, Lucian Msamati, and John Lithgow.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Watching this film is as close as most travelers will ever get to the papal conclave.
—Caroline Reilly, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
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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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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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Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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The doctor examining it quickly responded, thinking there must have been a clerical error: The packet didn’t include a biopsy to support the 2009 diagnosis.J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
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The election certification process—which used to be a routine clerical task—has been politicized in recent years by Trump's baseless election fraud claims.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Its brand is now recognizable across the country from bicycle stands in cities to ministerial meetings.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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On the same day, the Gulf Cooperation Council hosted a rare informal joint GCC-Iranian ministerial meeting, the first in more than 17 years, during which members affirmed the Gulf states’ unwillingness to allow their territory and airspace to be used to launch attacks against Iran.Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
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Finally, Moses washes Aaron and his sons and actually dresses them in their priestly garments (29:4–9).Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
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His priestly education continued with graduate-level study in philosophy, theology, and international development at Fordham.Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
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Widespread frustration over organized crime throughout the hemisphere, as well as social changes such as the spread of evangelical Christianity, mean that right-wing leaders may be favored to win upcoming elections in Chile in 2025 and Brazil and Colombia in 2026.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Until now, the only religious program offered at the school has been through the evangelical LifeWise program, which removes children from class for 55 minutes each week for Bible study and field trips to churches.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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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 22 Dec. 2024.
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