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Bruce French, the dependable character actor who did lots of work for the theater and portrayed Father Lonigan, the blind priest on the soap opera Passions who somehow could sense that evil was imminent, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
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In a video message posted in December updating the Catholic Diocese of Joliet’s restructuring plan, Bishop Ron Hicks cited declining Mass attendance, smaller Sunday collections and a shortage of active parish priests in forcing tough decisions.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2. If the weather was bright and clear during the celebration, people believed the remainder of the season would be long and difficult.—
Rachel Dobkin,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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Most songs concern a protagonist who pursued a career as a clergyman despite a lack of faith.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2025
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In the beginning, Moore actually wanted to be a preacher.—
Anthony Mason,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2025
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Sports Rose Bowl live updates: Ohio State dominates, but Oregon scores late in first half 18 minutes ago If the Rose Bowl is a church, then Joel Klatt is a preacher.—
Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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Within every person — each and every one of us made in God’s image — is the spark of the divine.—
William McCarthy,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Feb. 2025
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Sufism, often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islam, emphasizes a personal connection with the divine.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes,
1 Jan. 2025
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As a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church of Grove City, Woody served as a deacon, usher, adult Sunday School teacher and superintendent.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Catholic Church doesn’t allow women to be bishops, priests or deacons.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades proper was founded in 1922 by Methodist reverend Charles H. Scott, who established a religious community there.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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