(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.
Tiara
Definition:
(n.) A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
(n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
(2) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(3) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(4) London's garden bridge: will 'tiara on the head of fabulous city' ever be built?
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imelda’s diamond and pearl tiara.
(6) There are also a number of files with intriguing titles such as Operation Tiara, Operation Grape, and Project R1, as well as some which contain details of supposed UFO sightings.
(7) "Billionaire fashionista" Evgeny Lebedev wore tailored his 'n' hers trouser suits with his actress girlfriend Joely Richardson to Sir Elton John's White Tie & Tiara Ball in June.
(8) Instead, take inspiration from Molly Ringwald in the most seminal prom film of all time, Pretty in Pink, in which her character spends precisely no money at all on her dress, wears a giant pink sack to the dance and ends up with her happy ending, without even a tiara.
(9) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
(10) This problem may prove even more curious than the case of Elton of John's tiara.
(11) Cartier International, which established its reputation in the 19th century by crafting tiaras and necklaces for royalty, declined to comment on the case.
(12) And beyond Capote's character and Hepburn's performance is the iconic image of Holly herself – with little black dress, black gloves, a tiara and a foot-long cigarette holder.
(13) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara believed to be worth more than $100,000.
(14) Clad in a "midnight-blue ceramic rainscreen", this plump cousin of the Gherkin (in which Partington also had a hand) appears to be bursting out of its corset of "white porcelain ribs", which overshoot the penthouse skybar to form a tacky tiara on the skyline.
(15) And Jonathan Reilly, along with two friends, donned tutus and tiaras, grabbed a magic wand, and went trick-or-treating … in August.
(16) What next for what Lumley called, somewhat hopefully, “the tiara on the head of our fabulous city”?
(17) #Emmys September 23, 2013 Updated at 3.19am BST 3.11am BST The Colbert Report introduces its team with an homage to NSA surveillance (and obviously gets points from us ), puppets stand-in for The Daily Show group, Oprah introduces the writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live , the Portlandia crew gets applause from a concert audience, Toddlers in Tiaras stand-in for the writers of Real Time with Bill Maher , some weird collection of SNL references for its team.
(18) Yet Snyder clearly has no problem with Wonder Woman, who owns an invisible plane and attacks enemies with her tiara, so it seems all bets are off.
(19) I picked up my departed mother’s sparkly red and green Christmas tiara and ran with it.
(20) Last year, Christie’s valued the collection; they identified treasures that had previously been missed, including a tiara with 25 pearls in a diamond frame seized from the Russian tsar’s family in the 1918 revolution.