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- noun A Roman numeral representing the number twenty three (23).
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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
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His devastating hit on Cincinnati's Ickey Woods in Super Bowl XXIII is one of the game's enduring images.
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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
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An intellectual whom John XXIII is said to have likened to Hamlet, Montini was alive to the problem of moral ambiguity.
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An intellectual whom John XXIII is said to have likened to Hamlet, Montini was alive to the problem of moral ambiguity.
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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
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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."
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But, like John XXIII, who was also supposed to be a caretaker pope,
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"Missal of St. Pius V" or "Blessed John XXIII" are too limited terms.
Cardinal Cañizares Writes About Usus Antiquior and Liturgical Reform 2009
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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."
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