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chaplain

[chap-lin] / ˈtʃæp lɪn /


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After confiding in a padre - a military chaplain - the 56-year-old says she was reported to bosses and admitted to hospital, where she was held in isolation.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

While the military does not enforce or evaluate religious belief, its internal classification systems help determine how resources are allocated and how chaplain support is structured across bases and deployments.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

They say the revised list is designed to reflect practical usage while still ensuring that service members of all faiths have access to chaplain services.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

The Rev. Matthew Hood, the chaplain for the Detroit Catholic Campus Ministry, urges users to remember that they’re dealing with “lines of code and not a real human being.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

“I didn’t intend to side with him,” the chaplain apologized.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

According to the Navy, aboard the Lincoln were one clinical psychologist, one clinical social worker and three behavioral health technicians as well as a counselor and five Navy chaplains.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The Pentagon in recent decades has welcomed a diversity of faiths, with chaplains tasked more with offering personal comfort and guidance than on blessing leaders' decisions.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

There he served as the site administrator for the Urban Interfaith Chaplaincy Program, where he helped train the next generation of chaplains.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2025

Rev. Elizabeth Diop, one of two Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplains who lost their jobs for speaking publicly about Soliman, waited outside the mosque to welcome her former colleague back.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2025

It is raining on the day of Joey’s graduation, but the stage at Carville is decorated with flowers and two chaplains are on hand to deliver remarks.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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