Synonym: apostolic, apostolical, pontifical. Similar words: papaya, napalm, paper, newspaper, paper jam, papyrus, japan, apart. Meaning: ['peɪpl] adj. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
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61. Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were.
62. Hugh was the most forceful advocate of the principle which the new papal decree embodied.
63. The establishment of fortified places in Latium, the papal castles, meant maintaining garrisons in each one.
64. The issue of papal authority was central to the encyclical.
65. So they too were at the papal Curia ready with their reply when the monks of Canterbury arrived.
66. Numerous changes followed, either by way of decree from the Sacred Congregation of Rites, or through direct papal intervention.
67. Normally feudal grants were made within the Patrimony and the Papal State in return for military service.
68. There would also appear to have been relatively little popular hostility towards papal authority.
69. They had a mass of worthless artefacts from crowns to Papal tiaras that they hired out.
70. Both reject papal centralization and papal authority as a means for discerning just government.
71. Mr. Banks I have been accused of many things, but never of being a papal legate.
72. Holiness aside, he was ill-suited for the papal office; he lasted five months in the Vatican.
73. Decisions taken, said the Code, require papal confirmation, but a Council exercises supreme jurisdiction over the Church.
74. But such enthusiasts were not numerous, and there were not many of them in the papal Curia.
75. The cardinals joined in all the rapidly growing administrative and judicial functions of the papal court.
76. The only protection for the petitioner at the papal court is the Purse.
77. Eck, however, made his way to Rome and got himself appointed papal nuncio.
78. These papal letters represent the high point in the campaign for a Church both spiritually and temporally independent of the lay ruler.
79. A: Are you going to attend the Papal mass?
80. The papal authority is sovereign.
81. He was threatened with a papal interdict.
82. A round seal affixed to a papal bull.
83. a papal visit to Mexico.
84. Papal diplomacy is almost as old as the papacy.
85. A Franciscan from Genoa,(www.Sentencedict.com) he enriched his family and the Papal States through simony and heavy taxation.
86. In the name of Christendom, kings and their knights rode off to crusades with papal blessing, as David and the hosts of Yahweh redivivus, cleansing the Holy Land of infidels.
87. After a papal legate investigating the Cathars was murdered in 1208, with the Count implicated, Innocent ordered a crusade against the region.
88. Charlemagne had won the undying support of Leo III by restoring him to the papal throne after an uprising.
89. But by recalling its papal nuncio from Dublin in order to take part in consultations in Rome, it is publicly recognising the seriousness of the situation.
90. The papal nuncio called on Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, to refute the Byzantine emperor's argument.