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church suffering

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.
  1. the souls in purgatory.


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The Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement all passed without the church suffering vandalism or attack, according to available records.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020

Here is another class in a nearby church, suffering not only from moral and intellectual neglect, but from physical as well.

From The Girl in Her Teens by Slattery, Margaret

Half an hour after they began to discuss it, everybody felt that not only was the church suffering severely, but that they had been the unconscious witnesses of a domestic tragedy.

From The Second Chance by McClung, Nellie L.