parish
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“I serve on the parish council,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“But I’m an idealist. I can never live all these years in this parish if I weren’t an idealist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
If you’re there for the regatta, look out for an appearance from the parish priest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Tens of thousands of Catholics flocked to a small parish in the Mekong Delta on Thursday for the first beatification ceremony held on Vietnamese soil.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Mami walked her to the bus stop for her first month at her new school over in the next parish.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
The most effective antipoverty work usually happens when people in local parishes tackle local problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, two Catholic parishes in Colorado and two parents, Dan and Lisa Sheley, filed suit, but lost in lower courts, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
Ebel and Diestel were provincial clergymen, scarcely known outside their parishes until, as Mr. Clark says, scandal tightened around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
She added Safe in Faith trained Catholic clergy and parishes to "understand spiritual abuse and to develop trauma-informed responses to support people like Grace".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Barack was the first person I’d met at Sidley who had spent time in the barbershops, barbecue joints, and Bible-thumping black parishes of the Far South Side.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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