Examples of papal in a Sentence
Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
The papal phone call came amid Israel’s public criticism of the Vatican’s tendency to treat the Israel Defense Forces as morally equivalent to the Hamas terrorists who targeted, attacked and butchered unarmed Israeli civilians.
—William McGurn, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
Ukraine has passed messages and lists of names to the papal nuncio in Kyiv, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, who forwards them via the Holy See to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
—Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
In 2015, at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference, often referred to as COP21, at least 10 world leaders made specific references to the papal encyclical during their addresses, and the meeting ended with a landmark agreement to fight climate change.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
The papal cult that continued to grow from the first Vatican Council and reached its zenith under John Paul II has come crashing down under Francis.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
Excitement has been building for weeks in Juba, where colorful murals of Francis appeared on the ramshackle streets, and the authorities laid the route to the papal nunciature with a new tarmac road, still a rarity in South Sudan.
—Jason Horowitz Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
In 2001 he was elevated to the College of Cardinals and participated in the papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
—Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
The sword was commissioned to replace the original Sword of State, also known as the Papal sword, which is believed to be a papal gift from Pope Alexander VI to King James IV in 1494.
—Time, 3 July 2023
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Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin papalis, from Late Latin papa
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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