ecumenical
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As Roosevelt moved the U.S. toward intervention, he sent an envoy to the Vatican, hoping to craft global, ecumenical religious alliances—and there was no alliance he coveted more than with the Roman Catholic Church.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Not every editor is quite as catholic with a little c, as ecumenical, as excited about such a range of writing as I am.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
Then he travelled to Iznik for an ecumenical celebration marking 1,700 years since the First Council of Nicaea, one of the early Church's most important gatherings.
From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025
King Charles has been a great advocate of building links between different faiths and the planned state visit to the Vatican would have seen symbolic moments such as an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
The minister, who took his ecumenical and—some felt—slightly impersonal remarks from Saint Paul’s sermon on Love from First Corinthians, talked for about half an hour.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing ecumenical
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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"Speech on the Vietnam War, 1967" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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