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Recent Examples of chaplain
Last year, the dinner was accompanied by a panel of speakers from Judaic, Christian and Muslim faiths including Rabbi Robyn Fisher and Norman Hemming III, an administrative law judge, pastor and chaplain for the FBI who was recently a keynote speaker at COSMOS annual community dinner.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The Cubs have a team chaplain, Rev. Burke Masters, who celebrates mass at the ballpark on Sundays with Wrigley Field employees, including players, team personnel and ushers.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
At the time, the former zookeeper was worried about the couple's chances for the chaplain, warden and the captain to approve their paperwork.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
As a priest, Farrell first served in Mexico as chaplain at the University of Monterrey.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The Cubs have a team chaplain, Rev. Burke Masters, who celebrates mass at the ballpark on Sundays with Wrigley Field employees, including players, team personnel and ushers.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
At the time, the former zookeeper was worried about the couple's chances for the chaplain, warden and the captain to approve their paperwork.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
As a priest, Farrell first served in Mexico as chaplain at the University of Monterrey.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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According to Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the news, Hudson will portray Reverend Peters, a Baptist pastor at the head of a prominent Boston law enforcement dynasty that includes his daughter, District Attorney Mae Silver, and his granddaughter, Det.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, a Catholic parish in Logan Heights that has served immigrant peoples for its 100-year existence, where I am humbled to serve as its pastor, has entered as one of five plaintiffs in a suit against the federal government’s immigration agencies.—
Scott Santarosa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2025
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Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination.—
Dan McLaughlin,
National Review,
6 May 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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My class—led by the church rector, Nigel Massey, a boyish-looking Brit who studied theology at Oxford—was focussed on the subjunctive as used to express uncertainty.—
Shauna Lyon,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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His leadership style was further shaped while serving as rector of the Colegio de San José in Buenos Aires from 1980 to 1986.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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And then the announcement: the unknown Robert Francis Prevost had been elected the vicar of Jesus Christ.—
Christopher Hale,
Time,
9 May 2025
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The vicar, who had a long-term smoking habit, wasn’t poisoned, the study determined.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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Sofa in collage by Peter Dunham Textiles; Hot pink laminate parsons tables by Two Worlds Arts; Soft edge chairs by Hay; Madeleine Castaing striped carpet by Codimat Collection.—
Michael Boodro,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary smiled and waved from the back of the truck to people waving U.S., Peruvian and other national flags, and stopped to bless some babies in the crowd.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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Peruvians remember the young American priest who became pope Prevost, who lived in Peru as a missionary in the 1980s and the 1990s, would have heard about these accounts while serving as Bishop of Chiclayo starting in 2014, especially following the publication of Ugaz and Salinas’ bombshell book.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
18 May 2025
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Image As a cardinal and head of the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, Pope Leo was already thinking about artificial intelligence.—
Motoko Rich,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Before being called to the Vatican, the future Leo XIV was bishop of Chiclayo, which performed even better than most other regions of Peru.—
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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