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sacrament

[sak-ruh-muhnt] / ˈsæk rə mənt /


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The Vatican said on Thursday: "The sacred ministers of the Society of St Pius X administer the sacraments illicitly, while the sacrament of penance they administer and the marriages they witness are invalid."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Twelve Churches” is decidedly not a book about theology: It doesn’t describe debates about the Trinity or what constitutes a sacrament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Catholicism also makes a ceremony of transubstantiating flesh into a sacrament to feed the soul.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024

The sacrament is often associated with end-of-life care, but in the circus, it can also occur in the context of accidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

A look of steely determination—and I think parchment, judgment, sacrament, sacrifice.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The Vatican said on Thursday: "The sacred ministers of the Society of St Pius X administer the sacraments illicitly, while the sacrament of penance they administer and the marriages they witness are invalid."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

In tracking our friendship over decades, we can also mark our way by the sacraments: marriages, baptisms, First Communions, etc.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

More food, more money, and the symbolic pull of seven — sacraments, days of creation, virtues — turned a humble pre-Mass meal into a celebratory Italian-American blowout.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Amid the chirping of birds, she talked about receiving the sacraments there, and celebrating her quinceañera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Confession is one of the most important sacraments of the Catholic Church—a holy moment in which people can repent their wrongs.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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