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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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Whatever the answer, clerics who want Francis to stay or go have been sending their own signals since the pope entered the hospital 12 days ago.
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Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Some of these popes led immoral lives; at one point, a 20-year-old was chosen as Pope Benedict IX, who then sold the office to another cleric.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
Mojtaba’s rise, or the rise of any other cleric, will thus prompt the country’s people to further pressure Tehran.
—Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025
Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
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Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Some of these popes led immoral lives; at one point, a 20-year-old was chosen as Pope Benedict IX, who then sold the office to another cleric.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
Mojtaba’s rise, or the rise of any other cleric, will thus prompt the country’s people to further pressure Tehran.
—Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025
Many Christian clerics and secular rulers in western Europe believed that the popes needed to return to Rome, to distance papal authority from French influence.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleric. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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cleric
noun
cler·ic
ˈkler-ik 
: a member of the clergy
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