sacerdotal

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In December 1984, Rev. Cardenal was expelled from the Jesuit order and was suspended from conducting sacerdotal duties until further notice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016

That sacerdotal view has altered in recent years.

From Washington Post

Jan. 1�Publication of Pope Pius XI's first encyclical since the Lateran treaties, giving thanks for his sacerdotal jubilee.

From Time Magazine Archive

His idea of public art, though secular and materialist, turned out to possess an immense sacerdotal gravity: it could stand in for religious icons.

From Time Magazine Archive

His sacerdotal locks, meant to be long and silken, hung in stiff, wretched little clumps.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham