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priestly

[preest-lee] / ˈprist li /




ADJECTIVE
sacerdotal
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The only region in the world where priestly vocations are growing is Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

The text also sheds light on women's roles in Babylon, including priestly duties that were previously undocumented.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

This 3-week synod, which begins Wednesday, is putting them more or less on an equal playing field to debate agenda items including such hot-button issues as women, LGBTQ+ Catholics and priestly celibacy.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Six feet one and heavyset, with a slight stoop and closely cropped white hair, Moretta favors black button-down shirts or white guayaberas when not in his priestly cassock.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023

Instead it was probably created to separate elite from hoi pol- loi, with the goal of emphasizing the priestly rulers' separate, superior, socially critical connection to the divine.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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