Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A priest, especially in France, who spends time in secular employment for missionary purposes.
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One year in a Jesuit rehab penitentiary outside Madrid, two more as a worker-priest in a Marseilles slum, and only then back to the Congo he so unwisely loved.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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One year in a Jesuit rehab penitentiary outside Madrid, two more as a worker-priest in a Marseilles slum, and only then back to the Congo he so unwisely loved.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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Influenced by Dorothy Day and the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, as well as by his experience with the worker-priest movement in France, Berrigan became an early voice of opposition to the war in Vietnam.
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