rectory
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In the rectory dining room before the vigil, the burly 85-year-old priest said he wasn’t fazed that his working-class parish has weathered so much since arriving in 1983.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Redbird – Set inside the former rectory of Vibiana, Redbird is a modern American restaurant built for sharing.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026
Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in a rectory in Lincolnshire, one of 11 children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Since its construction in 1862, the Essex rectory had been the site of alleged hauntings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
One morning in Mirebalais, they both skipped church, electing instead to watch the heavy downpour from Père Lafontant’s empty rectory.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Her novels pump in boosts of old-world elegance via jaunts to Italy or roomy seaside rectories; her white characters inhabit the world of wine-swirlers and are often impoverished by choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Jane Austen, Tennyson, and the Brontë sisters were all the product of rectories and parsonages.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
John Paul and Benedict tried to discipline unruly troops in the seminaries, rectories, universities, and parishes.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2014
In Shanley’s play, seen against the backdrop of what we now know did happen, in Catholic schools and rectories across this country and others, he didn’t have to tell us how the story ends.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2013
All forty churches and eleven rectories that make up the diocese give food and money for the effort.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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