Sentence examples for old pope from inspiring English sources

Poor old Pope.

But the old pope can't go back.

Crowned in the Lateran Palace in Rome, the old pope spent lavishly for its restoration and that of the Pantheon.

Assuming Benedict stays at the Vatican, as has been announced, "I can imagine these unhappy Catholics going to the old pope and saying, 'What do you think about that?' " Mr. Pennington said.

We can't obtain knighthood by proving we are great-great-great thrice-removed relatives of English royalty; nobody's conducting us to Heaven just because we have kinship with a craggy old pope.

"There is a duality, and even if the old pope says he will retire from the world, he will be an awkward presence," said Roberto Rusconi, a church historian at Third University of Rome.

Certainly an 82-year-old pope is entitled to remain seated if he likes.

But people seemed more focused on the 83-year-old pope himself, marveling at his endurance.

As if to underscore the denial, the Vatican announced that the 80 year-old pope would visit Ukraine in June.

The 81-year-old pope is in no mood to wait and see how Patriarch Aleksei of Russia responds.

The 82-year-old pope, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, had remained outside public view for the previous 48 hours.