Sentence examples for bad popes from inspiring English sources

The idea that there had been "bad popes," for example, was long ago commonplace among Catholic schoolchildren.

Neither as corrupt as depicted by Machiavelli and by gossip nor as useful to the church's expansion as apologists would make him, Alexander VI holds a high place on the list of the so-called bad popes.

There have been bad popes, to be sure.

There have been bad popes in the history of the church.

Though the peasants are now known to use the following aphorisms: "Marriage is known but not unmarriage;" "A bad pope may marry you, but even a good one cannot unmarry you," the case was quite different in the past.

I believe Benedict XVI will go down in church history as a "bad pope," and as a kind of Abraham who carried his Isaac up the hill ten thousand times, failing to listen when God called out "Stop!" I believe the Vatican has hit the mattresses.

As if coupling redistributionist dogma with fear of mob weren't bad enough, Pope Francis then engages in some liberation theology nostalgia to subject what should be the inalienable right of private property to some higher, "communal" goal.

In its new Sunday night series, The Borgias, Showtime has found the magic combination for ultimate crowd appeal in a scintillating soap opera about a bad-boy pope.

That's too bad, because the Pope believes that science, rational thought, and data all play powerful and positive roles in human life.

The Bad. "New Pope" (Jason Sudeikis, Cecily Strong, Kevin Hart, Kenan Thompson, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Taran Killam, Bill Hader) This particular sketch is a good example of the whole show being mediocre.

Bad news for the Pope in a new study tracing the most commonly used phrases over the past five hundred years.