Barber said at the time that no
priests
or deacons who are active in the ministry have credible allegations of abuse of a minor.
—
Roland Li,
San Francisco Chronicle
, 8 May 2023
And as Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the
priest
and Nathan the prophet, so may you be anointed, blessed, and consecrated King over the peoples, whom the Lord your God has given you to rule and govern; in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
—
Town & Country
, 7 May 2023
Even with endless revelations of abuse by
priests
and other Christian patriarchs, the eminently rape-able feminist looms large in the trad mind.
—
Audrey Clare Farley,
The New Republic
, 4 May 2023
During an extended instrumental, Mike Hadreas grabbed the tulle and wrapped his body in it, part mummy, part bride, part spirit, part
priest
.
—
Samuel Ernest,
Longreads
, 2 May 2023
In 2019, DeLorenzo was one of five Michigan
priests
arrested, the attorney general's office said, for abusing children.
—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News
, 28 Apr. 2023
Share [Findings] Mount Vesuvius turned a Herculaneum man’s brain to glass, according to archaeologists, who also revived the voice of a
priest
from the reign of Ramesses XI and determined that a mummy in the Ulster Museum had been stabbed in the back.
—
Lauren Oyler,
Harpers Magazine
, 26 Apr. 2023
The ceremony itself is linked to an ancient Roman tradition that required a
priest
to officially open the wine harvest.
—
Byandrew Curry,
science.org
, 16 Apr. 2023
On Friday, the last day of his trip, the itinerary included a stop at the Knock Shrine, where Mr. Biden was told by a
priest
there that a friar who had administered last rites to his eldest son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, had retired to Knock.
—
Michael D. Shear,
New York Times
, 14 Apr. 2023
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