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In the apostolic age, the first millennium of Christianity, when the Church did not yet have the backing of law and culture and strong institutionsChristianity spread rapidly across the ancient world.—
Austen Ivereigh,
Time,
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But after the Mass ended, Francis appeared on the loggia balcony over the basilica entrance for more than 20 minutes and imparted the apostolic blessing in Latin.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Apr. 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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Francis, who scaled back rules for papal funeral rites a year ago, made sure his own service and burial reflected that same message of simplicity − breaking from tradition even in death.—
Susan Miller,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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The movie tries to showcase the battle for the soul of the church that takes place during a papal election, highlighting tensions between progressives and traditionalists, the role (or lack thereof) of women and, in the case of Fiennes’ character, Cardinal Lawrence, a crisis of faith.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Francis had established the Holy See’s first pontifical commission for the protection of minors early on in his reign.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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Turkson resigned from that role in 2021 and was appointed to head two pontifical academies on sciences and social sciences.—
Philip Pullella, Crispian Balmer, Alvise Armellini, Joshua McElwee and Chris Scicluna,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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To be sure, some of the new pope’s ecclesiastical priorities, such as highlighting inequality in what is the world’s most unequal region, will resonate with many Latin Americans; and most Latin Americans will see the rise to the papacy of one of their own as a tremendous source of pride.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Mar. 2013
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Second, the dating of the Paschal Full Moon is not based on astronomical computations but rather is taken from ecclesiastical tables.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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However, here, too, Pope Francis streamlined procedures, urging the cardinals to advance the start of the conclave if all the electors are already in the Vatican before the canonical 15 days.—
Paolo Armelli,
Vogue,
21 Apr. 2025
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Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter VI, the next installment in his canonical series, will arrive on June 6.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Dear Eric: Thirty years ago, at the age of 29, I was sent by my missionary organization to South America.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Our Seek the City to Come initiative harnessed the wisdom of 6,000 voices that guided my decision to revitalize parishes as evangelizing missionary centers.—
William E. Lori,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Apr. 2025
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If his successor is chosen from the global South, his evangelical campaigns may continue.—
VICTOR GAETAN,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Apr. 2025
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In the United States, where various types of Protestantism used to be associated with elite culture, Catholicism has risen on the right, while various evangelical, and both Catholicism more tolerant nondenominational Christian churches, have grown, as opposed to more popular atheism or agnosticism.—
Christian Paz,
Vox,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Diaconal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diaconal. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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