apostolic

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Recent Examples of apostolic But their indifference to the apostolic authority of the church and complicity with a secular ruling establishment have alienated many ordinary Catholics, who, like many ordinary voters throughout the West, worry that what was once solid is being eroded by negligent leaders. R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018 Approximately three-quarters of Christians in the region are Arab and tend to belong to ancient, apostolic denominations such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic and Catholic churches. Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024 His decision to appeal prompted Bruckner, who works as a ministry assistant at a Colorado nondenominational church, to ask Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, to review the court record. Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation. R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018 See All Example Sentences for apostolic
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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Finally Met Joan Baez: 'Absolutely Surreal' Directed by Edward Berger, papal drama-thriller Conclave recently nabbed the best film prize at the 2025 BAFTA Awards.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, pointed out this week that a papal resignation is not on the cards and that Francis will give everything to recover.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His defense of biblical inerrancy against the modernism of mainstream Bible scholars had laid the intellectual foundation for the future of evangelical Protestantism.
    Austin Steelman / Made by History, TIME, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Putin deputized the Russian Orthodox Church to nurture relations with like-minded churches in the West, including evangelical ones in the United States.
    Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There are 23 members in the maintenance unit — workers who help maintain HACC properties — and there are 77 members in the administrative/clerical unit, which primarily includes housing specialists and office assistants.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The department slashed another 89 Education Department contracts including a contractor hired to manage mail and clerical operations.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system allocates key positions among Christian, Shiite and Sunni factions, with dominant blocs — Hezbollah and the Amal Movement for the Shiites, and the Lebanese Forces for the Christians — insisting on their share of ministerial portfolios.
    Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Extending phase one indefinitely would suit an Israeli prime minister whose extremist ministerial allies want to start bombing Gaza again and then re-establish the Jewish settlements that Israel forced out 20 years ago.
    Mick Krever, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Evergreen trees shade the pastoral grounds, planted to simulate the majesty of being in the Rocky Mountains, the owner’s other favorite place.
    Cortney Fries, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Concordia’s dean revoked Marty’s pastoral posting in London, instead sending him to serve as assistant to the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • 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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