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Recent Examples of papal
However, Conclave’s win at the BAFTAs and its SAG Award Best Acting Ensemble win — which is effectively a Best Picture honor — puts the papal thriller in line to win.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Francis also seems aware of the Vatican’s reputation for being opaque about papal health matters.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
It is adapted from Robert Harris' hit novel, the papal drama imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The papal drama from Focus Features, which won Best Film at the recent BAFTA Awards, is up for eight Academy Awards next weekend.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Francis also seems aware of the Vatican’s reputation for being opaque about papal health matters.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
It is adapted from Robert Harris' hit novel, the papal drama imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
The papal drama from Focus Features, which won Best Film at the recent BAFTA Awards, is up for eight Academy Awards next weekend.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 23 Feb. 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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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
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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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Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act Feenstra also introduced the IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act, which requires the IRS to change certain notices involving math or clerical errors.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Economically, Iran's clerical leadership has presided over deepening stagnation during its four-and-a-half decades in power.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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This joint ministerial decision was designed to lend legitimacy to the process established under the EU-Turkey deal, but was mired in logistical and legal challenges.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Their efforts were undermined by regular flux at ministerial level, with the UK having had four prime ministers in as many years.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 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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Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors, and interfaith coalitions are urging the administration to abandon any return to such practices, calling them morally indefensible and antithetical to American values.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Huckabee repeatedly used evangelical Christian language at the hearing to explain his strong support for Israel and its right-wing government.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 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 14 Apr. 2025.
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