Sentence examples for future pontiff from inspiring English sources

In one, the future pontiff inquires of a crony how many cardinals must be bought to win the papal election (of 1492).

While it is too early to talk of front-runners, hints to the characteristics sought in a future pontiff can be discerned from the utterances of the cardinals who have spent the past week in meetings at the Vatican.

But as Austen Ivereigh shows in his biography of Pope Francis, some clergy (like Jorge Bergoglio, the future pontiff) took the message of Medellín in a spirit that was suspicious of the colonial "north" and in a good sense populist but eschewed class war; others veered towards dogmatic Marxism.

The future pontiff's outlook changed during a period when he was far from the limelight: as a mature student in Germany in 1986, and then as a priest in the provincial Argentine city of Córdoba.By the time he re-entered high church politics in the 1990s, he was a chastened man.

A cardinal-nephew was also a potential threat to any future pontiff; for example, Ludovisi came to lead the opposition against Pope Urban VIII (1623 1644), even talking about calling a council against the Pope (which never occurred as Ludovisi died in 1632) because "no one else had the standing to confront Urban's titanic temper".

Gherardo was assigned the title of Santi Nereo e Achilleo, which it was believed Innocent VIII had intended for him; Sanseverino was given the poor and undesirable diaconate of San Teodoro to ensure that the future pontiff would confirm his assignment.

Malachy was a bishop in Ireland who allegedly had a vision in 1139 in which he saw a procession of 112 future pontiffs, each of whom he described with a single, frequently oblique, phrase.

Many giants of Roman Catholic theology in the first half of the 20th century fell under suspicion of modernism, including Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, and Romano Guardini, a hero of the present pontiff.

"Our people are suffering – suffering from injustice, from war, from occupation, from lack of trust and lack of hope for a better future," he told the pontiff.

About a dozen African men holding a banner reading "Refugees for a future together," greeted the pontiff as he descended the popemobile in St. Peter's Square.

He did not tip his hand about whether the renovations were carried out with the pontiff as the future occupant in mind.