clergyman

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The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ star returns as a Protestant clergyman who becomes entangled with the mob in this Netflix series co-starring Taylor Ortega and Laurie Metcalf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

"One of Monaco's distinctive features is a kind of positive secularism, which recognises the legitimate autonomy of the spiritual and temporal spheres," Guillaume Paris, a senior clergyman in Monaco, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

In the early 20th century, a clergyman named Montague Summers wrote histories of European vampires that displayed his erudition and eccentricity—not least because he was sure that vampires really did exist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

It’s signaled early: When the documentary crew is preparing the room for Fife, they awkwardly move a decorated Christmas tree out of the shot, revealing a portrait of some clergyman on the wall.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024

And he goes on to report a test where the unguent was applied by a sceptical clergyman, so that there could be no suspicion of either cheating or demonic involvement.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton