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  • noun A Roman numeral representing the number twenty three (23).

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Examples

  • A lot of them came across as predictable, run-of-the-mill, stories that I might have already read in XXIII or XXII ...

    Not #28, alas pabba 2009

  • His devastating hit on Cincinnati's Ickey Woods in Super Bowl XXIII is one of the game's enduring images.

    All-time Super Bowl team: Safeties 2007

  • In the victory against Cincinnati in XXIII, he set a Super Bowl record with 357 yards, but his magic always transcended the numbers.

    USATODAY.com - Poise: Vinatieri gets his kicks in the clutch 2004

  • An intellectual whom John XXIII is said to have likened to Hamlet, Montini was alive to the problem of moral ambiguity.

    Graham Greene's Vatican Dossier 2001

  • An intellectual whom John XXIII is said to have likened to Hamlet, Montini was alive to the problem of moral ambiguity.

    Graham Greene's Vatican Dossier 2001

  • To understand this apparent persecution of the Catholic Church in a Catholic country, one must go back to the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council, called by Pope John XXIII in 1963 in which there was a shift in emphasis from a purely spiritual and self-contained concept of

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • But, of course, the February 5, 2009, statement from The Secretariat of State of the Holy See flatly stated: "An indispensable condition for any future recognition of the Society of St. Pius X is their full recognition of Vatican Council II and of the Magisterium of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI."

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • But, like John XXIII, who was also supposed to be a caretaker pope,

    An Interview with Steve Berry about The Third Secret 2010

  • "Missal of St. Pius V" or "Blessed John XXIII" are too limited terms.

    Cardinal Cañizares Writes About Usus Antiquior and Liturgical Reform 2009

  • But, of course, the February 5, 2009, statement from The Secretariat of State of the Holy See flatly stated: "An indispensable condition for any future recognition of the Society of St. Pius X is their full recognition of Vatican Council II and of the Magisterium of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI."

    A little snag with the SSPX reunion 2009

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