How to Use papacy in a Sentence

papacy

noun

• He was selected by the cardinals for the papacy.
• The chairmanship certainly has some of the pomp of the papacy.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• As viewers recall, this isn’t the first time that Law has de-clothed for his papacy role.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• That's in keeping with past years of his papacy, which allow him a bit of a summer break.
  — Frances D'emilio, Chron, 18 July 2021
• By the year 1800, the French Revolution was over, the ancien régime a thing of the past, the temporal power of the papacy crushed.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• The papacy may have spooked Professor Ehrlich, but Italy has been there since 1976.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• But the writings of the man born Joseph Ratzinger are the most significant legacy of his life and papacy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2022
• The pope also appears to have accomplished the main goals of his papacy.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 June 2022
• In his 10-year papacy, Pope Francis has opened some doors to women.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Five years into Pope Francis’s papacy, the summer has been rocked by scandal for the Catholic Church.
  — Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• Robert Bellarmine and other defenders of the papacy held that the Church was Christ’s kingdom on earth, and the pope his vice-regent.
  — Nathaniel Peters, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The letter was a welcome salve in the battle that has raged throughout Francis’s papacy thus far.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
• Francis has spent the better part of his four-year papacy seeking to mend the ties, and last year hosted el-Tayeb at the Vatican.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• Francis has made the hardships facing migrants the world over a key focus of his papacy.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2018
• Pope Francis, whose papacy began in March 2013, is the first Jesuit pope.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2019
• The fallout dogged Benedict from the beginning of his papacy.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Recent years—since the start of Francis' papacy—have seen some of the biggest crowds in anyone's memory.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
• Six Indian saints have been canonized in the past 15 years, all but one under the papacy of Pope Francis.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• The consistory comes at a fraught time in Francis’ six-year papacy.
  — Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• Clothing has been such a flash point for debates around Francis’s papacy.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• Even before the coronavirus, Francis no longer had the same global fanfare of the early years of his papacy.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
• The conversation Raphael creates across the room bridges the two worlds of the sacred and the secular, part of the larger effort advanced by Julius’s papacy.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
• But its unique architecture and relevance to both the papacy (this is where the Pope stayed during the war) makes it worth tacking on to your trip to the Vatican.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
• Clearly, the pope is currently able to fulfill the most important duties of the papacy.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
• While pledging during his papacy to give women greater roles in the church, Francis has also made clear that the priesthood is reserved for men.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
• An example was the collection of dues owed to the papacy by Medici agents in Bruges, a busy commercial center in the Low Countries.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• Francis has now named nine batches of new cardinals in his 10-year papacy.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Read more here, and read about America’s changing perceptions of the papacy here.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017
• But for a period of time, the letter represented a serious attack on Francis’ papacy.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Pope Francis is the first pontiff to make climate change central to his papacy, and wrote a 2015 encyclical that relied on scientific facts about global warming to deliver a moral call to preserve the planet for future generations.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024