cardinal
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"Crowded into the room were members of parliament, city authorities and, I seem to remember, a single red-hatted cardinal from the Vatican."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The source told AFP that "close associates" who have known the cardinal for years reported similar behaviour when he was a missionary in South America.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Yet, many banks refuse to have any sort of framework to evaluate that, and certainly don’t communicate about it. To us, that is the cardinal sin.”
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Both the Pentagon and the Vatican denied a report, published in the Free Press last week, that the meeting was tense, with Colby lecturing the cardinal on U.S. military power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
I was still so angry that I was about to violate one of the cardinal rules that Gopal had taught me.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
I wonder if any of the cardinals and other Vatican officials in the audience winced at the notion of the Bishop of Rome taking his place as one among many “moral voices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
“We now have quite a few bishops and cardinals coming out and being present, which is very important. As far as our archdiocese is concerned — not so much.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
It was for similar reasons that cardinals of different persuasions were thought to have coalesced around him at conclave.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
She had ceramic cardinals and bluejays on tables in the living room of her farmhouse in Illinois, where I’d spend every summer.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023
It is in a way the most civilized of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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