monsignor

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Recent Examples of monsignor But the monsignor, very gracious, didn't mind. Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023 There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square. Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023 Diddi also heard from Perlasca on March 1, 2022, when the monsignor filed a formal complaint alleging Chaouqui had threatened him and claimed to be working with prosecutors. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022 The trial, though, proved to be a reputational boomerang for the Holy See, showing deficiencies in the Vatican's legal system, unseemly turf battles among monsignors and how the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors. Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2015 See All Example Sentences for monsignor
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Noun
  • The Reverend Leah Daughtry is national presiding prelate of The House of the Lord Churches, co-convenor of Power Rising, author, and political strategist, having served as chief of staff of the DNC, CEO of the 2008 and 2016 Democratic Conventions, and an at-large member of the DNC.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the first half of the 20th Century, European powers commonly worked to influence the conclave ballots through their prelates and ambassadors.
    Time, Time, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Established in 1506, the Swiss Guard's mission is to always guard and protect the pope and his official residence, the Apostolic Palace, as well as cardinals who gather during the papal conclave.
    Katie Kindelan, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement His speech was another signal that the new pope, whose views on many issues remain unclear, is likely to take the same hardline stance on climate change as his predecessor.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The video went viral, triggering backlash from Republican lawmakers who called for McCoul to be fired and praised the fact that the school also demoted the College of Arts and Science’s dean and revoked administrative duties from a department head.
    Laura Gail Miller, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Clemens also claims in his suit that school dean Jed Atkins was using the messaging app Signal, known for end-to-end encryption for messages and calls and disappearing messages, to communicate with members of the board.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the stabbing of a bishop at a church in Sydney in April 2024, an Australian judge ruled that X must block access to a video showing the attack.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The senior bishop and other leaders of the House of God church, which is a part of the Pentecostal denomination, were gathered at the complex for a three-day leadership summit.
    Lauren Costantino September 20, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aquila recently spoke to the Denver Catholic, the archdiocese’s official publication, about his retirement and his time serving as Denver’s archbishop.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Our research began as a spin-off from a film called Mission: Joy—Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, in which the 14th Dalai Lama and the late archbishop Desmond Tutu talked about their friendship and offered lessons on creating joy for oneself and others regardless of circumstances.
    Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.
    Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.
    David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.
    D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025

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