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
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
In 2018, U.S. bishops issued a pastoral letter decrying “the persistence of the evil of racism,” but Massingale was disappointed.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 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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