How to Use papal in a Sentence
papal
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The video conference marked the second papal call to space.
— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2017 -
For that and other writings, he was declared a heretic, which led him to further critiques of the papal system.
— Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Many people here at the time felt the papal visit confirmed Brazil’s position at the top of the world.
— Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Director Anne Hawley went so far as to ask the Vatican to issue a papal appeal in 1994.
— Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 26 Feb. 2018 -
The white smoke, of course, is a tip of the cap to a papal conclave in which a new pope has been chosen.
— Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2019 -
The Met’s staff raised their smartphones like at a rock concert or a papal mass.
— Jason Farago, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021 -
The move helped consolidate their place at the center of the papal court.
— National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019 -
This trip is only the second papal visit to Japan and the first in nearly four decades.
— Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021 -
In fact, his remarks were the latest in a string of papal apologies in recent years.
— Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 -
Then again, so are most mainstream churches, on both sides of the papal divide.
— Abraham Miller, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018 -
The only time papal power changes hands is when a pope dies or resigns.
— Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021 -
So have all the ambassadors in Kyiv except the one from Poland and the papal nuncio from the Vatican.
— Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2022 -
Francis is in Canada this week on the first papal visit since 2002.
— Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 -
Austen Ivereigh is the papal biographer who wrote the book and has written two others with the pope.
— Devon Link, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020 -
The spokesman for the papal trip in Canada, Neil MacCarthy, said planning for the trip continued.
— Nicole Winfield, ajc, 10 June 2022 -
Francis is scheduled to visit Iraq March 5-8 in what would be the first-ever papal trip to the country.
— Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021 -
The breach, as Foster saw it, of the papal duty to teach was inexcusable.
— Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021 -
Sunday's papal Mass used to draw thousands of pilgrims from around the world to the sprawling square at the Vatican.
— Ray Sanchez, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020 -
Tuesday is the 41st anniversary of his first papal visit to Poland.
— Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020 -
Even as the events unfolded, other Iraqis were thinking ahead to whether the papal visit could spur any changes.
— Louisa Loveluck, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021 -
But the strongest indication of his values came with his choice of a papal name.
— Bill Weir, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018 -
Catholic pontiff can still perform his papal duties as long as his mind is clear.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022 -
The commission called for a papal apology for the role of the church, which operated about 70 percent of the schools.
— New York Times, 24 June 2021 -
But some health experts have argued that the papal trip will push the risk onto crowds of people who do not have the same protections.
— Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 -
First of all, Francis is, in Douthat’s view, destabilizing the very nature of the papal office.
— Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018 -
Gaenswein had served as a bridge between the two popes by also acting as head of Francis' papal household.
— Nicole Winfield, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Pope Francis is starting the second of his four-day trip through Iraq, the first-ever papal visit to that country.
— Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2021 -
The papal visit to Iraq can do more than only give a glimpse of hope to religious minorities in the region.
— Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 -
This papal support of the war, reinforced by church sermons across Italy, helped mobilize volunteers to join the Italian army to fight in Ethiopia.
— Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022 -
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, was taken to a hospital in central Rome after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said.
— Henry Austin, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
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