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What People Are Saying Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, led Wednesday night's gathering, urging the faithful to pray for the pope's swift return to his apostolic mission.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025 -
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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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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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
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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
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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 building's striking concrete facade and massive bell banner set it apart from traditional ecclesiastical designs.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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During the Jubilee year of 2025, when some 30 million Catholic pilgrims are expected to flock to the Eternal City in search of spiritual forgiveness, the ecclesiastical abundance will be compounded by crowds.—
The New York Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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Crouch used a canonical children’s fantasy movie as allegory for the the legal hurdles the district faced in relation to the proposal to split.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps aware of the canonical nature of Baraka’s play and the pressures that come with adapting it, Gaines fashions The Dutchman as a meta-narrative.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Mar. 2025
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This year’s theme is A Heart for the Harvest and will feature four missionary families representing Namibia, Portugal, South Africa and South Sudan.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2025
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Videos of the various positions—missionary in New York City, cowgirl in Nashville—immediately go viral online.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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“Diaconal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diaconal. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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