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Monika Scislowska, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
The diocese is joined by five priests in the lawsuit filed on Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court in Newark, brought against the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 31 Aug. 2024
Director William Friedkin eventually brought a priest to set to bless the production.
—Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
The documentary’s furious emotional center is the disclosure of Ed’s secretive birth at the St. Joseph’s Mission residential school, where he was subsequently abused, to a mother who was raped by a priest.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
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priest
nounOld English prēost "priest," derived from Latin presbyter "priest, elder," from Greek presbyteros, comparative form of presbys "old man, elder"
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