How to Use monsignor in a Sentence

monsignor

noun
  • The monsignor demands it, but that doesn’t mean Kristen has to be okay with it.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Josh Brolin, who plays the late monsignor, is married to Kathryn Boyd.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
  • But Stu persists and wins the monsignor over to his cause with a minimum of strain and effort.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The campy investigator is taking his talents to the church after a monsignor is killed.
    — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
  • And then there’s Father Pruitt, the monsignor who’s held mass at church for longer than anyone can remember.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Saturday’s Mass and reburial will be a glorious event, the monsignor said.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • The plan is to film Samson (as Jefferson) walking out with the hopes that people will believe the monsignor's risen from the dead.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Buck, who was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy, also was molested by several priests and a monsignor, according to his lawyer.
    — Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The plot revolves around a young priest (Josh O'Connor) who's accused of killing the monsignor (Josh Brolin).
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The monsignor told her Ganster would be given counseling and Ganster was promptly reassigned, the report said.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2018
  • When the monsignor was murdered at the end of Season 3, Ignatius was devastated.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 July 2024
  • Josh O’Connor is sensational as a feisty but good-hearted young priest faced with being a pariah in his own church when accused of killing the place’s toxic monsignor.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Lori’s spokesman, Sean Caine, said the then-monsignor announced in parishes why the priests were being ousted and connected The Post with one of the victims.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The couple wrote their own vows, which were officiated by a Catholic monsignor and a Presbyterian minister.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • In 2014, Pope Francis abolished the future use of the monsignor title — which denotes a specific honor — for most priests.
    — Vivian Wilson, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
  • The monsignor anticipates the new pontiff will pick up where Francis left off, advocating for the poor and for immigrants and pushing for unity, peace and inclusivity.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • This time around, the monsignor of a small-town church is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is summoned to investigate.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • This go around, Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on an upstate New York town to solve the murder of a domineering and hate-spewing monsignor (Brolin).
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2025
  • In the new Wake Up Dead Man, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigates the death of a monsignor seconds after his last sermon.
    — Fred Topel, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • After the monsignor relayed this story to the sniper task force, authorities phoned police in Alabama and learned that fingerprints from the store hadn’t yet been sent to the FBI for identification.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Narratively, Daniel Craig’s returning lead Benoit Blanc takes a back pew to the conflict between a sensitive priest and a malignant monsignor who has turned away from Jesus’ teachings.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Riley and Erin are among the few residents of Crockett Island, a place known for its fishing industry, a recent catastrophe that wiped much of that industry out, and a deep and abiding faith, nourished by the parish’s beloved monsignor.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Behind the apse, in the monsignor’s private apartments, Dom Pérignon 2006 was poured for the ladies in glittering gowns and men in floaty silk caftans and shiny Alta Sartoria suits adorned with diamond brooches.
    — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The trial, though, proved to be a reputational boomerang for the Holy See, showing deficiencies in the Vatican's legal system, unseemly turf battles among monsignors and how the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2015
  • One Vatican monsignor who until recently was considered by prosecutors to be a key suspect, Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, managed to avoid indictment.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 26 July 2021
  • The scandal has laid bare both the vast amount of money the Holy See has at its disposal for investment — including donations from the faithful for charity — and the seeming incompetence of the Vatican monsignors responsible for managing it.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Throughout his work, the monsignor has served numerous parishes and schools across the local archdiocese, including Our Lady’s in Scituate, Our Lady of the Assumption in Lynnfield and Saint Peter Parish in Cambridge, and became rector of the Cathedral in 2008.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026

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