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Recent Examples of confessor Instead, the central question and driving force is how Aggie and Brian will lure Nile out of the walled fortress afforded by wealth and into the trap of spilling his guts to a confessor. —
Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025 The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church. —Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025 In many cases, the handler is simultaneously confessor, babysitter, psychologist, spiritual mentor and surrogate family member. —Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025 Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination. —Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for confessor
Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025 The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church. —Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025 In many cases, the handler is simultaneously confessor, babysitter, psychologist, spiritual mentor and surrogate family member. —Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025 Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination. —Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for confessor
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Bundy and Boone attempted to get married through the prison chaplain, who denied their request, as well as through the mail and Bundy's attorneys, who also didn't want to get involved.— Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026
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People still talked about the time three years earlier when Darlene was shipped to a different facility after reporting the chaplain.— Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
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At the time, Esperanza-Pacheco was working as a pastor at God’s Lighthouse of Truth in Richmond, where the victim and her family were members and had developed a friendship with him.— Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
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Phil, senior pastor at Heartland, told the crowd gathered Friday that the 28,000-square-foot facility has already been seven years in the making.— Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
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Among the major threats to Rocha Moya’s political survival was the outcry about the 2024 shooting death of his one-time chief political rival, Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, a former lawmaker and university rector.— Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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Throughout his work, the monsignor has served numerous parishes and schools across the local archdiocese, including Our Lady’s in Scituate, Our Lady of the Assumption in Lynnfield and Saint Peter Parish in Cambridge, and became rector of the Cathedral in 2008.— Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
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He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grand Island in 1994 and served as vicar general and pastor of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary before his 2021 appointment to Colorado Springs, according to the archdiocese.— Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2026
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The chapel vicar Cardinal Baldo Reina has issued a statement on the matter, but has not weighed in on whether the angel’s face is that of the prime minister.— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.— Meredith Kile, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.— Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Francis also invited the female Anglican bishop, Jo Bailey Wells, into a private meeting of his cardinal advisers in 2024 to discuss the role of women in the Catholic Church.— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
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Cecil Newton, a Pentecostal bishop, was present for the entire hearing but did not testify.— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2026
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But when Niesen presented the plans to the abbot of the monastery, he was met with hesitation.— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
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The abbot of Wat Saman Rattanaram in Chachoengsao province, about 50 miles east of Bangkok, warned that cremation services may have to be suspended.— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 22 Mar. 2026
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The two men, who later became good friends, had known each other from when Prevost was the Augustinian prior general and the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires.— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
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Mansell served as archbishop in Hartford from 2004 until his retirement in 2013.— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Confessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/confessor. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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