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parish

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Recent Examples of parish In the early hours of September 16, Hidalgo summoned the people of Dolores by ringing the church bell of his parish. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026 In surveillance video released by the Diocese of Brooklyn, the masked man violently hits the statue outside the church in what Catholic officials say is the latest in a string of attacks targeting the parish. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Organizations like El Centro de Servicios Sociales in Lorain, Ohio, for example, worked closely with Sacred Heart Chapel, a Catholic parish, when more than 200 Puerto Rican families arrived in the city after Hurricane María in September 2017. — Gina Perez, The Conversation, 21 July 2026 Hyperion sits in a parish of about 20,000 people, one of the poorest in Louisiana, and the expansion is reviving hard questions about who ultimately foots the bill for a project of this scale. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for parish

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The laity’s faith in monks and in their ability to provide merit and moral guidance can suffer if monks break their vows, such as by drinking alcohol or having sex.

— Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026
Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026

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Since then, the 16-foot-by-32-foot church has been reconstructed, after archaeologists in 2021 uncovered the church’s original foundation, as well as 62 graves linked to the congregation.

— Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
On Friday, the event began with a procession symbolizing the ways the historic congregation has continued a multigenerational fight for education, faith, and freedom.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

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For all of this and more, multi-generational families, married couples celebrating milestone anniversaries, and celebrities looking for privacy and discretion flock here.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The groups have watched pigeon flocks flee from hawks and have seen pigeons feeding crop milk, a substance adult pigeons produce near their throat, to their babies.

— KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

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Until a 1917 church law was revised in 1983, those who died by suicide were denied Catholic burials on consecrated grounds.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
The reconstruction of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, where congregants gathered in secret before building a meeting house in Virginia, was celebrated Friday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

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