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Discover LudwigThe word 'papal' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to something related to the pope or the papacy. Example: The papal conclave gathered to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church.
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papal
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Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
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Carroll said a papal visit to the border would be a "transformative event" that might change minds of certain U.S. residents on the issue of immigration.
"If he brings that same desire for a simple lifestyle to the papal court, I think they are all going to be in shock," the Rev Thomas Reese, author of an authoritative book on the Vatican, told the Associated Press.
One of the first things he did on Wednesday evening, the Vatican said, was to telephone the emeritus pope Benedict XVI, ensconced in the papal villas at Castel Gandolfo since 28 February.
This was a time of great papal wealth and, in Wycliffe's view, corruption – he devised a doctrine which declared that the only source of God's authority was the Bible, not the papacy, and argued for the vast power held by the church to be secularised.
Not for him the Mercedes with the papal number plate SCV1.
First on the papal agenda on Thursday was a "spontaneous" visit – alluded to on Wednesday night by the just-elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio – to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in central Rome.
He just didn't trust what they might serve him in the papal apartments.
Related: Vatican crisis over bishop who denies the Holocaust It was the second such ceremony in the past month: Faure was consecrated here without papal approval only two weeks ago by the Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson.
Matt was always a devout Catholic, honoured with a papal knighthood as well as the Queen's accolade in 1968, after his third great team had reached the pinnacle of European Cup success.
The papal almoner was inspired by a conversation he had with a homeless man named Franco, according to a report on the Vatican Insider website.
Most significantly, Lombardi confirmed that, on the night of his election, the 76-year-old had called the papal nuncio in Argentina and told him to tell the faithful in his home country not to come to his installation mass on Tuesday but to make a donation to the poor.
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