Sentence examples for back to pope from inspiring English sources

And so what they did is they went back through history, they looked at the Liber Pontificalis, and they could go all the way back to Pope St. Pontian, in 235, one of the first bishops of Rome, who was arrested and sent to the salt mines, and in order for a successor to be able to be elected in Rome, he resigned his office.

A: Its roots go back to Pope Gregory XIII's reform of the calendar in the 16th century, which needed input from astronomers.

The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carry a letter with questions for the pope.

We saw it in North Carolina, and a lot of the money was traced back to Art Pope".

In an interview with journalists on his flight back to Rome, Pope Francis said: "When I meet a gay person, I have to distinguish between their being gay and being part of a lobby.

This is an edited extract from No Going Back: Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian Relations and Israel.

On his flight back to Italy, the pope... Pope Francis traveled to Mexico Feb. 12-17, saying he wants to "live the faith" of the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country but will not shy away from confronting issues of violence and corruption that could make his governmental hosts quite uncomfortable.

The most frightening story of all however dates back to July when Pope Francis brought in new laws for the Vatican state.

It's born out of a school in Rome named after the patron saint of music – dating back to 1585 and Pope Sixtus V.

And then I had to get back to work, doing Pope stuff, you know, blessing key chains and Kennedy annulments, but from that day on I knew, I just totally knew, there is a God.

For some, the town is synonymous with Tuscany, a nostalgic vision of wine shops that date back to the first Pope Benedict and old crinkly men playing bocce in 14th-century sandstone courtyards.