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oblate

[ob-leyt, o-bleyt] / ˈɒb leɪt, ɒˈbleɪt /




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But the Oblate priest refused and denied wrongdoing.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Small, a British-born Oblate of the Mary Immaculate priest, remains CEO of Missio Corp., while now serving on a temporary basis as the No. 2 at the Vatican’s child protection advisory board.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023

The death was announced by the Oblate Madonna Residence, a senior community home affiliated with Rev. Kabat’s religious congregation, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

There were periods of tensions with Oblate leadership, but Rev. Kabat managed to keep his activism alive.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

The revised edition of Bishop Barager's Grammar of the Ochipwe Language bears these words upon its title-page: "Revised by the Rev. Father Lacombe, Oblate Mary Immaculate, 1878."

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian




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