(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.
Vatican
Definition:
(n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Vatican spokesman said two of the 12 whose feet were washed were Muslim inmates.
(2) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(3) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
(4) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(5) But no solutions have been suggested by the Vatican.
(6) 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.
(7) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(8) But relations have steadily improved, as did the Vatican’s influence, culminating in last December’s deal with the US.
(9) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
(10) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(11) Combine that with the child sexual abuse scandals that began to surface in the 1980s – and the Vatican's reaction to those scandals – says Woodhead, and you begin to see a slow dissolution of the church's moral supremacy.
(12) These were supported closely watched by Pope Francis, who personally wrote to both leaders and hosted a crucial secret summit at the Vatican this autumn, which they credited with helping clinch the deal.
(13) • What led the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI to order the cardinal's immediate resignation, suddenly last Monday, when it had known of the four men's allegations since early February?
(14) The Vatican , which rarely intervenes in such matters, has issued two statements since the fight broke out.
(15) He told her: This is my first time here [in the Vatican during a conclave] and I feel so happy and privileged to be here at this particular time so I can see the smoke with my naked eye instead of on television.
(16) If the bishops were looking for something more explicit in Philadelphia, the pope went in a different and more philosophical direction,” observed John Thavis , a Vatican analyst.
(17) Cables from the US embassy in the Vatican show that the US believes the pope is broadly supportive of the crops after sustained lobbying of senior Holy See advisers, but regrets that he has not yet stated his support.
(18) Meanwhile in the Vatican cardinals from all over the world will begin informal consultations on how to move forward with the process of choosing a successor.
(19) The Vatican announced in December that Francis had decided to set up the commission to advise the church on the best policies to protect children, train church personnel and keep abusers out of the clergy.
(20) Millions of tourists are expected to descend on Rome to participate in the jubilee, but the special event means that the Vatican will largely be relying on Marino and his bureaucracy to make sure it is not a logistical nightmare for visitors.