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How to use papacy in a sentence

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For all the pain and suffering I believe his papacy brought to the world, I hoped his passing was eased with some soporific.
In 1309, a French pope moved the papacy from Rome to Avignon in what is now France.
Yet even as the papacy extended its universal authority, it might also contribute to the creation of national, secular identities.
Meanwhile, a debt had been contracted and four years later the papacy sent Pippin the bill.
The re-established papacy soon transferred its court to the Vatican Palace.
The responsibilities of the papacy today are daunting, and all realize that the bishop of Rome needs the prayers of the faithful.
The Guelphs early became associated with the papacy because of their mutual Hohenstaufen enemy.
This decline in the institution of the papacy made many members of the clergy impatient for reform.
If I had had more space, I would have pursued the issue of the concordat and the general antiliberal tenor of Pius's papacy.
Anglo-Saxon veneration of the papacy was strong and contributed to the growth of papal authority in the West.
Overall, how did this papacy influence Protestantism, particularly evangelicalism?
His papacy was an intriguing mix of the warm and humane with steadfast readings of scripture and church doctrine.
In 1192 Celestine III declared that the Ecclesia Scoticana was subject to the papacy alone and was free from the primatial claims of York.
His excellent history of the papacy catalogs many papal deceits, frauds, and intellectual dishonesties over the centuries.
But the kings also increasingly invoked the authority of the papacy as a source of legitimacy rather then popular acclamation.
Italian painter of the Umbrian School whose most important work in Rome and Siena celebrated the renewed authority of the papacy.
I once wrote a job description for the papacy and said the pope should be a hopeful, holy man who smiles.
Together, the works reassert Paul's apostolic authority, legitimately mandated to the papacy.
There were questions about the papacy and apostolic succession, about sin and grace, about the authority of Scripture and tradition.
In their criticisms of the papacy, and in their exaltation of royal power, they laid the foundations on which later thinkers drew.
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In temporal affairs, the theory of the papacy rejects the theory of the democracy.
He was waiting to obtain the papacy, when he would deal better with the abuses.
Often the ineptness, the feebleness, the insatiable cupidity and the excesses of the papacy.
Such a suspicion would inevitably lead to a movement in favour of the internationalization of the curia and of the papacy.
Early abbesses were powerful and acted independently not only of the papacy, but also of the local bishop.
Croce, both in terms of the debates within the order on the issue of poverty, as well as in relation to the Angevins and the papacy.
He was also reconciled with the papacy and the House of Austria.
Despite any contrasts in their styles or papacies, the two are considered to be the most beloved pontiffs of the modern papacy, and, maybe of all time.
Greenberg added that the exhibit is not solely about religion, but rather a collection of fine and decorative arts that explores the papacy and its influence on world history.
On the contrary, Benedict spoke openly, both during the waning years of Pope John Paul II's papacy and after his own election, of the possibility of a pope resigning.
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