papacy
IPA: pˈeɪpʌsi
noun
- The office of the pope.
- The period of a particular pope's reign.
- Roman Catholicism generally.
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Examples of "papacy" in Sentences
- The office of the pope is called the Papacy.
- The papacy is actually an ally of the vampires.
- Anselm and Matilda were on the side of the papacy.
- In 1171, Raino finally renounced the city to the papacy.
- The iconological program was the supremacy of the Papacy.
- The shadow papacy is the one that is allied with the vampires.
- In contrast, the response of the papacy was painstakingly slow.
- If the intent was a rapprochement with the papacy, then it failed.
- His election was one of the speediest in the history of the papacy.
- It is the highest medal that can be awarded to the laity by the Papacy.
- Q: If Joan's papacy is so well documented, why is the subject so controversial?
- The papacy is a false anticipation of the kingdom during the Church-historical period.
- Unfortunately, Pope Benedict's papacy is already shaping up as a series of such disasters.
- His papacy is likely to continue to deal with that rift and other such divisions in global society.
- One of the chief goals of Benedict's papacy is to battle trends toward an increasingly secular society, particularly in western Europe.
- The papacy is NOT 'infallible'crows a poster on the Democratic Underground site), you might logically fixate on Benedict's admission that matters weren't handled well.
- So will the questions of whether the papacy is to pass from Europe (now seen as a pagan place that needs to be converted all over again) and whether the Italian cardinals or the German ones will hold sway in the conclave.
- As it sets in motion the election of the next Pope, it serves as a reminder that the papacy is not passed on but taken up afresh — that it is recast by each man who occupies the office, and that the process by which a new Pope is chosen is something other than a simple succession.