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 pastoral letter, the bishop said, “really dismantled some of the perceptions that were out there.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
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
Bishop William T. McGrattan, the vice president of the Canadian Conference of Bishops, said Friday afternoon that Canadian bishops had refuted the doctrine, and in 2016 offered a pastoral letter denouncing it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
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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