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  • Mr. Allen, who recently published a book-length interview with Archbishop Dolan, said the prelate's push to revive priestly vocations and church attendance also dovetails with the pope's drive to "re-evangelize" the West.

    New Yorker Among 22 New Cardinals Stacy Meichtry 2012

  • A good speech, Cadfael approved, one that gives nothing away of what lies behind Heledd's flight, thereby sparing her reputation and this good prelate's very proper concern.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Using power tools, police also opened up a prelate's crypt in Mechlin's St. Rombout Cathedral looking for documents.

    Belgium Church Panel On Sex Abuse Shuts After Raid 2010

  • Lombardi told the Guardian that the 77-year-old prelate's absence from the four-day visit "had absolutely nothing to do with anything else".

    Pope Benedict XVI flies in amid row over aide's race remarks 2010

  • According to Duin, Joseph Naumann, the archbishop of Kansas City, Kan., "has been in contact with Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of the Washington Diocese to inform him of the Kansas City prelate's discussions with Mrs. Sebelius."

    Order barring HHS nominee from taking Communion likely to carry over to D.C. | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Numerous Muslim leaders had also spoken out for the prelate's release, both Sunnis and Shiites, in Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan, and also condemned the action as "contrary to Islam".

    Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Numerous Muslim leaders had also spoken out for the prelate's release, both Sunnis and Shiites, in Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan, and also condemned the action as "contrary to Islam".

    The archbishop of Mosul is dead de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • It should go without saying that the people who are most in need of the good prelate's advice are those least likely to heed it.

    Ten Commandments for Drivers? Mike L 2007

  • It should go without saying that the people who are most in need of the good prelate's advice are those least likely to heed it.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007

  • Upon the death, in March, of Franz König, the kingmaker who engineered Karol Wojtyla's election, Allen recalled an afternoon he spent, starstruck, in the ancient prelate's company.

    In Search of a Pope 2004

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