pastoral letter
Americannoun
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Dame Esther said she was concerned that the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had issued a pastoral letter urging parishioners to take action with MPs.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024
The church in Ireland, once a fortress for Catholicism, was so decimated by abuse scandals that Benedict in 2010 wrote the first pastoral letter from a pope on the issue of abuse.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023
As archbishop, he helped craft a 112-page pastoral letter from the nation’s bishops that decried high unemployment, homelessness and hunger and described huge income gaps between the rich and poor as morally unacceptable.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022
Last month the archbishop of Krakow, Marek Jedraszewiski, issued a pastoral letter to be read out at all of Krakow’s many churches.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019
The bishops had gathered together earlier in the week and drafted a pastoral letter to be read from every pulpit that Sunday.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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