spiritual leadership

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First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said it was a "huge honour" to be at Pope Francis' funeral, representing "all those people at home who looked towards him for spiritual leadership".

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

Still, Gandhi’s commitments to an independent and self-sufficient India, his wit and steely resolve and his ability to mix aspects of spiritual leadership with political continue to command respect.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

“While it maintains an international network of affiliate groups and supporters, it doesn’t actually command them. Its role is more centered on providing spiritual leadership and lending its global brand.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

Christianity was the professed religion of almost all Europeans of the fifteenth century, and most in western Europe were Roman Catholics who acknowledged the spiritual leadership and worldly power of the pope in Rome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Until a spiritual leadership arises that will at least support aggressive and progressive movements toward freedom and democracy and moral uplift, slow progress will be made.

From Prowling about Panama by Miller, George A.