priest

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She was pulled into a scheme involving a man who posed as a priest, another posing as an immigration judge, and another posing as Oscar Carrillo, an attorney licensed in Texas who practices tax law.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

"She was a royal, but at the same time, a chief priest," says local historian Emmanuel Arkoful, a distant relative.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Menjivar-Ayala, who is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, was ordained as a priest in 2004 and became a bishop in 2023.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

In Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” buffoonish actors play “the pedant, the braggart, the hedge priest, the fool, and the boy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French