Sentence examples for noticed the pope from inspiring English sources

In a phrase that the Chinese authorities certainly noticed, the pope also referred to Beijing as "the great capital of modern China".

Observers have noticed the pope's reduced energy.

She's Catholic, and has noticed the attention Pope Francis pays to immigrants.

John Henry Newman was a great man but how odd must this all sound to those in mainstream society who might not have noticed that the pope and his English bishops have indeed apologised for the sins of the fathers.

While some genealogies give Traidenis as the ancestor, this has been described as unlikely: the later marriage of Gediminas' daughter Eufemija and Traidenis' great-grandson Boleslaw-Yuri would have violated canon law, since the two would have been related by blood, and this violation would likely have been noticed by the pope.

Chaloner visited the Pope's alum works at Tolfa near Rome and noticed the soil and vegetation around them resembled those of his estate at Guisborough.

A few years later he was noticed by Pope Alexander VII, and thereafter he secured an almost uninterrupted series of important commissions for altarpieces in Italian churches.

You may have noticed that Pope Francis has recently taken it upon himself to become one of those critics: Last month he excommunicated Mafiosi from the Catholic church, which must have hit a nerve.

(It's a sleight of hand that many conservatives are noticing. "Pope Francis, The Earth Is Not My Sister," reads a recent headline in The Federalist, a right-wing Web magazine).

Francis did not build them, and anyone paying any attention at all to the pope notices that often the pontiff uses his words to chip away at those walls he inherited.

I noticed it first when James Naughtie was describing the Pope's progress down Princes Street in hushed tones.