(n.) A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(2) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(3) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
(4) Seminars on the family apostolate and natural family planning for priests and religious and family counselors are organized yearly and the Happy Family Movement has prepared books, films, slides, and pamphlets for the general public.
(5) Their friendship was cemented after the pope's election when Francis decided not to occupy the lavish papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, but to remain at the guest house, run by Ricca, in which he stayed during the election.
(6) The present investigation is based on data from parish records of the Armenian Apostolic churches in Lebanon.
(7) Several areas were found to have much lower rates, and this was linked to areas with high membership in the Apostolic Church, a group that forbids medical treatment.
(8) The Levada report follows an "apostolic visitation" to US orders to check on nuns' "quality of life".
(9) His decision to abjure the splendour of the apostolic palace in favour of the modest Casa Santa Marta guesthouse has offered proof of his personal commitment to a humbler church, while his tender embracing of Vinicio Riva, a man terribly disfigured by tumours , underlined his hands-on pastoral approach.
(10) "I don't think an apostolic visitation will achieve much.
(11) Francis didn’t watch the film but exchanged a few words with Jolie afterward when she was brought up to the Apostolic Palace – along with two of her children, a brother and a cast member.
(12) News of the apostolic visitation came via the papal nuncio, Antonio Mennini, in a meeting with one of the complainants, a former priest known as "Lenny" who accused the cardinal of making sexual advances to him when he was a seminarian.
(13) Divorce is rare,” according to a website on the Apostolic Christian religion, which Davis follows.
(14) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
(15) In return, Pope Francis , 77, gave Tsipras a copy of his apostolic exhortation, the Joy of the Gospel, outlining what some have described as his radical views on the church's role in the modern world.
(16) Senior figures in Rome say the apostolic visitation is a way of dealing not just with the cardinal but with the more general accusations of moral malaise sweeping the church in Scotland.
(17) Tendi said a rally with members of an apostolic sect "astounded" him the most.
(18) These levels varied considerably and were lowest in areas with significant numbers of Apostolics, a group who often reject immunization on religious grounds.
(19) I intend to continue to serve the people of Rowan County, but I cannot violate my conscience.” Davis has said that recognizing such marriages is against her Apostolic Christian faith and decided to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay and straight couples in an effort to avoid the June supreme court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.
(20) Low vaccination rates were linked to Apostolic Church membership.
Papacy
Definition:
(n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
(n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.
(n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conservatives are unlikely to acquiesce without a fight, and Francis now risks criticism of his papacy up to the highest level, including the bishops – who have so far kept their counsel.
(2) Pope Francis embarks on one of the most delicate missions of his 18-month-old papacy on Friday, when he is expected to wrestle with the problems of Christian persecution in the Muslim world and tackle relations with Islam in a time of spreading jihadism during his visit to Turkey.
(3) This time, Francis is a popular pope who visits Brazil as a reformer in content as well as in form; one who proposes a new way of living the papacy.
(4) Photograph: Helen Maybanks Marlowe’s warring Catholic leaders were intended to amuse audiences in Protestant England, and it is suspicion of the papacy – as foreign, strange, potentially treacherous – that has made it such a profitable subject for fiction.
(5) Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
(6) On Wednesday, the pope told pilgrims in St Peter's Square that there had been moments in his papacy during which God "seemed to be sleeping" .
(7) The pope was elected with a mandate to shake up the church in Rome and help turn the page on an increasingly fraught and scandal-bedevilled papacy.
(8) The move, announced without warning, will take place on 28 February and leave the papacy vacant until a successor is chosen.
(9) Updated at 4.58pm GMT 4.37pm GMT The helicopter carrying Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies over St Peter's Square, on the final day of his papacy.
(10) John Pollard, a Cambridge historian, says in Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: "The papacy was now financially secure.
(11) Unthinkable in the preceding papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the pastoral needs of same-sex couples, along with those of children in such families, figured in the synod’s working document setting the agenda for this recent meeting.
(12) Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said the pope had resigned not because of "difficulties in the papacy" or a specific illness but instead a progressive decline in his strength.
(13) Early on in Francis’s papacy, Chaput told the National Catholic Reporter that the right wing of the church “generally have not been really happy about his election, from what I’ve been able to read and to understand.
(14) Ten years into his papacy, Shenouda had famously fallen out with President Anwar Sadat ; in September 1981 he was summarily dethroned and banished to an ancient desert monastery.
(15) • As bells tolled, the Swiss Guards standing at attention in Castel Gandolfo shut the doors of the palazzo shortly after 8pm (local time), symbolically closing out the papacy.
(16) From the Vatican’s standpoint, another important aspect of the visit will be the opportunity to consolidate the papacy’s good relations with the ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew I, the pre-eminent spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
(17) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
(18) The Guardian asked the Vatican's representative in London, the papal nuncio, archbishop Antonio Mennini, why the papacy continued with such secrecy over the identity of its property investments in London.
(19) Boston cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, once a contender for the papacy himself and a close ally of Francis, had been asked to recommend suggested discussion topics for the Vatican to raise with Obama.
(20) That was a very practical action, and consistent with his papacy.