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Recent Examples of clergyman
The emails, sent from Saints accounts, don’t specify which clergymen were removed from the list or why.
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Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
In 1781, a French clergyman named Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed to have discovered the ancient Book of Thoth while attending a stylish salon in Paris.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
One of the key details revealed in the emails, according to the reports, was from a Saints team spokesman who briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
—Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints’ own emails:
— Saints executives were so involved in the church’s damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
—Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
In 1781, a French clergyman named Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed to have discovered the ancient Book of Thoth while attending a stylish salon in Paris.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
One of the key details revealed in the emails, according to the reports, was from a Saints team spokesman who briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
—Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints’ own emails:
— Saints executives were so involved in the church’s damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.
—Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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Until his death in Pennsylvania last year, Gülen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip in 2016, was wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
14 May 2025
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David Aries aligns with David, a preacher and the leader of a group of cannibalistic survivors.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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In the previous episode, Mandy confessed to her priest and had guilty nightmares about her tricky predicament.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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At age 27, Leo was chosen to study in Rome, according to the Vatican, where he was ordained a priest.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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Married men can be ordained as deacons while women cannot, although historians say women served as deacons in the early Christian church.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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Leo has said little about other major social and cultural issues that have animated the emergent Catholic right, especially inclusion for LGBTQ+ Catholics and women’s ordination as deacons.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Preserving community gems Michael Major is a reverend at Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia.—
Buffy Gorrilla,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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Most of the cards feature gothic-style fonts, limited colors like black and red, and some were even sent by reverends or churches.—
Paul du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Here are just a few… Communal singing A hymn written by a dying Anglican cleric in the 1800s might not scream ‘pre-match razzmatazz’, but the pre-kick-off rendition of Abide With Me has become a staple of the build-up to FA Cup finals.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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The audiotape of the cleric’s offense turned out to be fake.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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