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Recent Examples of sacramental
Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out in June 2025
Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession.
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Pria Anand, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine, writes guest columnist Eli Federman.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics.
—Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
—Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
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Pria Anand, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine, writes guest columnist Eli Federman.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
That standard was tested when the churches in New Mexico and Oregon successfully sued the D.E.A., bolstering the case for the sacramental use of psychedelics.
—Ernesto Londoño Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 12 May 2024
Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
—Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacramental
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The New Moon is ruled by Venus, who’s just come home to Libra, adding a layer of divine ease and elegance to the cosmic weather.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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Wouldn’t Bette Davis in Now Voyager have looked divine pinning a Jennifer Behr crystal flower to her 1940s dress?—
Lynn Yaeger,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
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During their first reign from 1996-2001, the Taliban had outlawed all music besides non-instrumental religious chanting, enforcing the ban with brutal tactics that included a suicide bombing at an ANIM student concert.—
Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Following religious conviction, pride in one's homeland and confidence in its future is the sentiment that very well might induce the most people to get married and have children.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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But there is more: a little way back from the water, knuckle-like boulders of sandstone or some other friable rock sharpen the ambience of a consecrated space.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Churches are fine, but consecrated Earth is dangerous to them.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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Rose Glass' directorial debut is an ecclesiastical horror that offsets the fine line between devotion and delusion, all while stirring the painful emotions of loneliness and trauma.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her historic appointment—a first in the 1,400 years since Saint Augustine founded the diocese after landing in England—will fuel the long-running debate not only in the Anglican church, but also other Christian churches, about the ecclesiastical role of women.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The King and Queen earlier met the new pontiff for the first time since his May election on Thursday morning, following their arrival in Rome the previous evening to celebrate the holy Jubilee year, which takes place every quarter of a century.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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The not-quite-musical (the Shakers were known for their frenzied singing) and not-quite-biopic was recently acquired by Searchlight, with a suitably holy Christmas Day release planned.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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The seven pillars of society—wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth—aren’t just words carved into sacred walls.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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For this is sacred time, time out of time, without ballast or anchor, without leash or link.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Reforming Popes of the 11th and 12th centuries, beginning with Leo IX and culminating with Innocent III, addressed the ecclesial crises of their day.—
Case Thorp,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Others suggest that any sort of ecclesial peace that had reigned was over and that Francis is now more exposed to critics, deprived of the moderating influence Benedict played in keeping the conservative Catholic fringe at bay.—
NICOLE WINFIELD,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Jan. 2023
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Over the years, the Impoundment Control Act would come to be viewed as sacrosanct at the OMB.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Many of these cuts were to scientific research, something that, for decades, both parties had treated as sacrosanct, steadily boosting funds for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Sacramental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacramental. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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