What's the difference between encyclical and papal?
Encyclical
Definition:
(a.) Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
(n.) An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(2) After which the encyclical goes to be translated … A.
(3) Francis had declared himself a powerful force against global poverty, social injustice and climate change with the release of his encyclical on the environment in June.
(4) Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis to ‘stick with his job and we’ll stick with ours’ Read more Santorum told a Philadelphia radio station earlier this month: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re good at, which is theology and morality.” Three other Catholic Republican hopefuls: Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, have yet to speak out on the encyclical.
(5) Repeating some of the themes of his landmark encyclical “Laudato Si” on the environment last month, Francis said time was running out to save the planet from perhaps irreversible harm to the ecosystem.
(6) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
(7) [The encyclical] will convey to the world that protecting our environment is an urgent moral imperative and a sacred duty for all people of faith and people of conscience,” Ban said.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest US climate change deniers lambast the Pope over his environment encyclical – video Journalists were told they would be given an early copy on Thursday morning and that it would be released publicly at noon following a press conference.
(9) While he declined to comment on any details of the encyclical following his morning meeting with the Argentinean pontiff – the document has already been written and is being translated – he said he was counting on the pope’s “moral voice and moral leadership” to help accelerate talks.
(10) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.
(11) He wrote his first encyclical – Ubi Primum , which was about the duties of bishops – four months after being elected and issued the last of 44 in the year before he died in 1758.
(12) His call for a moral awakening of politicians and people of faith is a likely precursor to the highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, which was drafted by Turkson and which Pope Francis is expected to release in June.
(13) The question now is whether the encyclical will shake-up the climate debate, as Francis clearly hopes it will.
(14) He expressed the hope that the upcoming Vatican encyclical – the most authoritative documents a pope can issue – on the environment, would encourage negotiators at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris in November to make courageous decisions to protect God’s creation.
(15) Bernd Hagenkord, a reverend who heads the German-speaking section of Vatican Radio, emphasised the transformative impact the encyclical would have on the church’s social teaching.
(16) The very technology that has brought great reward is now poised to bring great ruin.” Ban Ki-moon , the United Nations secretary-general who delivered the keynote address at the summit, said he believed the pope’s encyclical – coupled with the pontiff’s planned speeches before the UN general assembly and a joint session of the US Congress – would have a profound impact on climate change negotiations.
(17) The encyclical could be viewed as the ultimate test of Francis’s role as one of the world’s most influential diplomats , after he helped thaw relations between the US and Cuba earlier this year.
(18) Giles Fraser ( Loose canon , 20 June) is far from alone in welcoming the pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’ , but it seems that many politicians are not as concerned as the Holy Father.
(19) Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this week’s encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest US climate change deniers lambast the pope over his environment encyclical Jeb Bush joins Republican backlash against pope on climate change Read more The UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said the church’s newly unveiled teaching on the environment underscored the “moral imperative for urgent action”.
Papal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.
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) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(3) Jesuits, who have had to wait almost 500 years to see one of their number sit on the papal throne, proudly point out that consultation is one of the foundations of their order.
(4) And it’s Italian.” The papal vehicle is black, but the 500L comes in a choice of 14 colours, including a striking Vatican yellow.
(5) The second, from the papal abuse commission, added that it was important for people in the position of authority to respond to claims of abuse “promptly, transparently and with the clear intent of enabling justice to be achieved”.
(6) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
(7) 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.
(8) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(9) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(10) Francis, an Argentinian whose own grandparents emigrated from Italy, cast a wreath of flowers in the papal colours of yellow and white on to the water in commemoration of those who have died.
(11) He said the last papal visit was overshadowed by the reluctance of his Turkish hosts.
(12) One BBC source compared it with a papal succession, where candidates do not compete openly, perhaps apposite for the Catholic Thompson.
(13) The guards return to Rome now as papal authority passes away from Benedict XVI.
(14) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(15) But even by its own standards, this week’s papal pronouncements have been bewildering.
(16) Less visibly, he has appointed a new papal almoner – a Polish archbishop, Konrad Krajewski – and boosted his department.
(17) While some papal experts had concluded that the pope’s meeting with Davis represented an endorsement of her role as a conscientious objector – because she went to jail for five days after refusing to fulfil her duties – the author Michael Sean Winters dismissed those arguments.
(18) Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the church's international portfolio has been built up over the years, using cash originally handed over by Mussolini in return for papal recognition of the Italian fascist regime in 1929.
(19) But according to a papal biography by author and journalist Jimmy Burns, the Vatican’s “discreet bridge-building” preceded the intervention of both Barack Obama and the election of Francis in 2013.
(20) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.