How to Use Holy See in a Sentence

Holy See

noun

• The Israeli ambassador to the Holy See was among those present for the event.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• Should the agreement be renewed, the Holy See runs the risk of sanctions being imposed by the United States.
  — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2020
• The Holy See said the short visit was for diagnostic tests and is back at the Vatican.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The infallible head of the Holy See, in all his sovereignty, saying the quiet part out loud?
  — Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
• Pope Francis should see the writing on the wall and revise the Holy See’s China policy.
  — Nina Shea, National Review, 6 Aug. 2023
• In Acutis, the Holy See found an avenue to connect with a younger generation.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 4 Dec. 2024
• The trial amounts to an answer of just how far the Holy See, where the pope rules as the supreme power, is willing to go in allowing dissent.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• Whether the Holy See can help with China, the single biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is less clear.
  — Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2021
• Cupich concurred there was more the Holy See could and should do to bring religious orders into line.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 25 May 2023
• Since the start of the pandemic, Holy See (Vatican City) has reported 27 cases and 0 deaths.
  — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2021
• The result of that investigation was a 21-page document sent to the Holy See but not made public.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2021
• Since Fernandez’s appointment last summer, the Holy See has acted more swiftly to defend the pope.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• The Holy See is the latest religious entity to denounce a drag queen performance staged during the Paris Olympics‘s opening.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2024
• Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See's pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
• As a result of tensions surrounding the appointment of bishops and the Holy See’s ties with Taiwan, no pope has ever visited China.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• His authority remains intact, according to the Holy See.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2024
• The Holy See later provided an update, saying the 88-year-old pontiff had gotten up to continue his daily treatment and was eating normally.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
• No pope has ever visited China, and the Holy See doesn’t have official diplomatic relations with it, despite pursuing closer ties over the last few years.
  — Karishma Vaswani, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
• She is accused of allegedly embezzling Holy See funds that Becciu authorized for her intelligence work, purportedly to free Catholic priests and nuns held hostage in hostile parts of the world.
  — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• The pope has been hesitant to directly meddle in politics since the beginning of his papacy — afraid to devolve the Holy See into a normal, secular world power.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2022
• His supporters argue that maintaining neutrality has long been at the center of Holy See diplomacy.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• The procedure was necessary to address a diverticular stenosis, or abnormal narrowing, of the sigmoid portion of the colon, said Matteo Bruni, a Holy See spokesman.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 July 2021
• The pope’s remark came during an annual foreign policy address to diplomats accredited to the Holy See which traditionally serves as a lament for all the world’s conflicts and injustices.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Any prediction offered on the future of the Holy See can spark dramatic debate among Vaticanists, provoking disagreements on a candidate’s chances or merits.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
• Burke has remained largely silent on his demotions and has refused to entertain characterizations of hostility toward the Holy See.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2023
• In recent years, the Vatican has sought to relaunch the Holy See’s engagement with contemporary culture, participating in the Venice art and architecture biennales and, in the future, literary festivals.
  — Nicole Winfield, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday after exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates, with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025