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Recent Examples of pope
Berger, whose pope-election nail biter Conclave was one of the most delightful surprises of last year, does pull off some moody grandeur here.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Written in the 1580s for a primarily Protestant audience, the play features a scene in which Dr. Faustus and his devil companion, Mephistopheles, trick the pope by snatching away his meal.
—Penelope Geng, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2025
However, the pope was ailing at the time and died on April 21.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
God chooses the pope, not cardinals, my barista says.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Written in the 1580s for a primarily Protestant audience, the play features a scene in which Dr. Faustus and his devil companion, Mephistopheles, trick the pope by snatching away his meal.
—Penelope Geng, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2025
However, the pope was ailing at the time and died on April 21.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
God chooses the pope, not cardinals, my barista says.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pope
Noun
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Due to not being a parish church, weddings are only allowed at the landmark after permission is granted from the archbishop.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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In addition to Longo, Pope Leo elevated six other men and women to sainthood, including an Armenian archbishop tortured and killed after refusing to renounce Catholicism, a Venezuelan physician who dedicated his service to the poor and several nuns who spent decades helping the downtrodden.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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The barely believable but entirely true story saw gay rights activists trick their way into the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London by dressing plainly and conservatively – one even went as far as dressing as nun, while another donned the garbs of a bishop.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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What to Know Maloyan was an Armenian bishop and martyr who was killed during the Ottoman genocide in 1915.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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The Colombian prelate also recognised the call for the Church to move faster in tackling abuse.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Debates and complaints between prelates have historically been handled behind the scenes in hopes of maintaining an image of cohesion despite obviously divergent mindsets.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Oct. 2025
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Many of the homes that have collapsed were hundreds of feet away from the ocean’s shoreline when they were initially built, said Reide Corbett, the dean of the Coastal Studies Institute at East Carolina University.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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In his nearly 20 years in Miami as dean of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and of all things jazz in this town, Berg has proven his knack for bringing unexpected combinations of great artists together under one roof.—
Helena Alonso Paisley,
Miami Herald,
4 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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In the new Wake Up Dead Man, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigates the death of a monsignor seconds after his last sermon.—
Fred Topel,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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The monsignor anticipates the new pontiff will pick up where Francis left off, advocating for the poor and for immigrants and pushing for unity, peace and inclusivity.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Bovino was spotted at 26th and Pulaski by DeMateo, the pastor, in the Little Village neighborhood where DHS and the Border Patrol chief originally claimed he was hit in the head with a rock by a protester.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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In Detroit, then Mariners' Church pastor Richard Ingalls got news of the wreck from Bob Lee, then curator at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle, according to Ingalls’ daughter, Bette Wisniowiecki.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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