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Recent Examples of pope
The pope also encouraged the citizens of the countries involved in the war to call their politicians and representatives to ask them to pursue peace.
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Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
One of the gifts the delegation presented to the pope was a plaque with a photo of his boyhood home in Dolton.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Speaking from the loggia, the pope announced a prayer vigil for peace April 11 in the basilica.
—Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
Leo restores Holy Week foot-washing tradition Leo, history’s first U.S.-born pope, is returning the Holy Thursday foot-washing tradition to the basilica of St. John Lateran, where popes performed it for decades.
—Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
One of the gifts the delegation presented to the pope was a plaque with a photo of his boyhood home in Dolton.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Speaking from the loggia, the pope announced a prayer vigil for peace April 11 in the basilica.
—Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
Leo restores Holy Week foot-washing tradition Leo, history’s first U.S.-born pope, is returning the Holy Thursday foot-washing tradition to the basilica of St. John Lateran, where popes performed it for decades.
—Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pope
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Separately, Sarah Mullally, the archbishop of Canterbury and the first woman to head the Church of England, delivered her first Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral on Sunday.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
5 Apr. 2026
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The 1,400-year-old artifact was recently found in the ancient city of Hippos, a prominent bishop's seat during the Byzantine era, according to a March 30 press release shared with Fox News Digital.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.—
Robert Barron,
Washington Post,
3 Apr. 2026
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The abbot of Wat Saman Rattanaram in Chachoengsao province, about 50 miles east of Bangkok, warned that cremation services may have to be suspended.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
22 Mar. 2026
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Phommasan, a native of Laos and abbot at a Buddhist temple in Snellville, was recently fitted with a prosthetic leg at Mercer University.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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George was a highly influential, politically astute prelate who died almost a decade before Leo XIV’s election.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
14 Mar. 2026
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Now both prosper: Spider spins undisturbed in the cottage rafters, and Gout affixes herself to a prelate, condemning him to a life in bed.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Cohen is now the dean of the gerontology school at the University of Southern California, and his lab has identified many more peptides.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Courtney Crappell is the current dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Apr. 2026
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The first is the strikingly Gothic diocesan throne, which sits in the cathedral choir and dates from the Victorian era.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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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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Prosecutors claimed brokers and Vatican monsignors fleeced the Holy See of tens of millions of dollars in fees and commissions to acquire the property, and then extorted the Holy See for $16.5 million to cede control of it.—
NICOLE WINFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Prosecutors alleged brokers and Vatican monsignors fleeced the Holy See of tens of millions of euros in fees and commissions to acquire the property, and then extorted the Holy See for 15 million euros ($16.5 million) to cede control of it.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The pastor said that over the past decade or so, the church has sent thousands of illicit Bibles in Farsi to Iran with a WhatsApp number written inside, so the retriever overseas can call or text for more information.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Stephen Mitchell is the senior pastor of Trinity Bible Church in Severna Park.—
Stephen Mitchell,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Pope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pope. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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