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The canonization of two people who died young comes as religion has been declining among young people, including American Catholics.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Before that, an indigenous population occupied the land with their own distinct languages, religions, and economies, many of which still exist today despite decades of brutal crackdowns from the Argentinian state.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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The 89-year-old child psychologist transformed a corner of the conservative movement into a roaring political force that shaped the national conversation and became the de facto base of the modern Republican Party that embraced performative piety as a precondition for viability.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
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During Saturday night’s show, Gillis kept celebrating his Irish devotion.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Ganges has been a center of trade and devotion for centuries, the Brahmaputra feeds tea estates and wildlife-rich floodplains, and Kerala’s canals knit together fishing towns and rice paddies.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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