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Recent Examples of papal
Isabella Rossellini has a small but crucial part as a nun who's obediently serving in an administrative role but also knows every papal trick in the book.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Now, the papal thriller will have less competition and already be established.
—Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
Underneath its papal pomp and regal bearing, this thing is pulp through and through.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
The heavenly supporting cast includes John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini
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Conclave, a marvelously entertaining film about a papal election, is something of a miracle, an immaculately polished production that satisfies on just about every level.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Now, the papal thriller will have less competition and already be established.
—Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
Underneath its papal pomp and regal bearing, this thing is pulp through and through.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
The heavenly supporting cast includes John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini
Comments
Conclave, a marvelously entertaining film about a papal election, is something of a miracle, an immaculately polished production that satisfies on just about every level.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 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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Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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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
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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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Indeed, it’s sometimes overlooked that while the Czech lands were under Nazi occupation in 1939, the Slovak State was founded as a clerical client fascist state of Hitler’s Germany.Will Tizard, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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The government controls the Knesset, and the coalition usually votes as a bloc in accordance with decisions made by a ministerial committee, meaning that several powerful ministers, led by the prime minister, control legislation.Eliav Lieblich, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2023
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Since the 2020 election, local officials in at least eight states have attempted to use their largely ministerial duty in election certification to delay or deny certification, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 3 Nov. 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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This violence did little to deter upper-caste Hindus—namely Brahmins (the traditional priestly caste), Kshatriyas, (the warrior caste), and Banias (the trading caste)—from becoming BJP supporters.Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2022
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According to Christianity today, a majority of evangelical voters overall, will be casting their vote for Trump.Earl Carr, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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But in the evangelical world, that safe spot came with a price.John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 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 Nov. 2024.
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