pastoral letter

American  

noun

1. pastoral.

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Example Sentences

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

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

The pastoral letter, the bishop said, “really dismantled some of the perceptions that were out there.”

From Washington Times

He was perhaps most outspoken on social justice and particularly economic justice, helping shepherd a pastoral letter from U.S. bishops in 1986 that described poverty and income disparities in the United States as “a social and moral scandal.”

From Washington Post

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