priest
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Leo heads to Argentina on Sunday, followed by Peru, where the Chicago-born pontiff served as a missionary priest and bishop for two decades and holds citizenship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Rosario Cossio, head of the town's Afro-Peruvian Museum, said that Zana's reputation for being cursed was linked to the murder of a priest during the colonial era.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
She also added an interlude where a guest, usually famous, appears to confess to the singer as if she were a priest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Born William Joseph Gabriel Doyle in 1873, the future priest had a comfortable, middle-class childhood in the affluent Dublin suburb of Dalkey.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The serious-minded priest, hearing all that talk about giants and enchantments, imagined that this must be the hero of the book the Duke liked to read often.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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The refusal to ordain women has compounded chronic shortages of priests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Unfortunately, I have always struggled with disappointing authority figures: professors, bosses, priests, parents — and, apparently, severe-bunned bakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Under this traditional model, kings, priests, and other powerful leaders gained control of wealth and resources, causing the divide between rich and poor to expand.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
We learned about the annual return of swallows, admired blooming roses and citrus trees and absorbed a simple story: Spanish conquistadors and Catholic priests tamed a wild land, and we should follow their example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
The priests, too, were nothing like Richard had expected.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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