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He set up the pontifical commission Ecclesia Dei to cater for supporters of the Tridentine Mass.
John Paul II appointed Arinze to be the pontifical legate to other faiths, and to remind us that God is a God of joy.
The bishop was compelled by pontifical authority to desist from this wicked labor, and Latinity did not recover until the Renaissance.
An era of incorporation fostered a pontifical tone in American arts criticism.
After the cardinal audience and a celebratory lunch, the pope will prepare to leave the pontifical apartments.
On this occasion, he offered his pontifical throne to the tired old pilgrim.
Ives totally mistrusted the cosmopolitan musical circles with their classic-worshipping conductors, snobbish patrons, and pontifical music critics.
Her blessing gives her the right to certain pontifical insignia: the ring and sometimes the crosier.
She lived and wishes to continue to live the pontifical desideratum with the theological note of the unitive force of the Church.
As a young seminarian, he studied in Washington, D.C., and at the pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Kicking off the weeklong celebrations, the pope seemed to welcome the security challenge as part and parcel of pontifical work.
The latter typically allude to their ideal of life, or to specific pontifical programmes.
In the pontifical universities postgraduate courses of Canon law are taught in Latin, and papers are written in the same language.
An episcopal ordination lacking a pontifical mandate raises the danger of a schism, since it jeopardises the unity of the College of Bishops with the Pope.
This friendship made him a regular visitor to the pontifical household so much so that he was invited into the papal chambers where the Pope had just passed away 'to offer Holy Mass in the presence of his mortal remains.
French troops reestablished pontifical power in Rome.
In art Gregory is usually shown in full pontifical robes with the tiara and double cross, despite his actual habit of dress.
In the recent revision of this part of the Pontifical a deliberate choice was made in this respect.
And as the Pontifical Commission points out, the sentence of 1633 was not irreformable.
St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary was started in 1682 by Carmelite missionaries in Varappuzha.
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Neither pontifical law nor augural science ever obtained credit outside of the Latin world.
Another person put on a bishop's robes, satin gown, lawn sleeves, and the other pontifical ornaments.
But a railway the subjects of the pontifical Government cannot have.
Then Mr. Wilmot, making his pontifical and undulatory adieu, passed on.
There was much of the pontifical in me, for I was a rapt radical.
I offer a friend a bottle of '44 claret, fit for a pontifical supper.
Claude assumed the majestic and pontifical attitude of a Samuel.
I am writing treatises on augural, pontifical, and civil law.
The effect had been more fitting because so many of them had idly parodied pontifical or monastic dress.
Before him are borne the Triple Crown and other Pontifical ornaments.
After his ordination in 1963, he received a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
In 1939 the Institute was canonically erected as a Pontifical Institute, no doubt chiefly became of the eminence of its Director.
Ledoux, and that Bellegarde's acquaintance with him dated from the days when they served together in the Pontifical Zouaves.
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