Sentence examples for papal cause from inspiring English sources

They had deserted the papal cause in response to Gregory's inflexibility.

In 1301 Charles, regarding Italy as a stepping-stone toward his eastern ambitions, readily accepted Pope Boniface VIII's invitation to aid the papal cause.

A partisan of the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and his son Conrad IV, he increased his territories largely at the expense of his uncle, Count Hartmann of Kyburg, and his cousin, Count Hartmann the Younger, who supported the papal cause against the Hohenstaufens.

These would be the last two years of his academic career, however, for in September 1302 he was named Archbishop of Benevento by Pope Boniface VIII, possibly in gratitude for the support James had shown for the papal cause in his great treatise, De regimine christiano (On Christian Rulership).

Gregory's building program, including the Quirinal Palace in Rome, along with his political ventures, together exhausted the papal treasury, causing serious repercussions in the Papal States.

This weekend's series in Baltimore was supposed to take place at Yankee Stadium, but the papal visit caused a change in plans.

He was elected during one of the darkest periods in papal history, caused by the "Cadaver Synod" at which Pope Stephen VI had posthumously deposed and desecrated the disinterred corpse of Pope Formosus.

At the same time, Tyndale was buttressing his practice with theory, in writings that promoted the anti-papal Lutheran cause and provoked the ire of Catholic apologists such as the heretic-burner Thomas More, who unjustly accused Tyndale of being a political as well as religious revolutionary.

This explains the confusion over the color of the smoke in the 1958 Papal conclave, caused by the lack of sealing wax on the ballots.

However, the cost of upholding his position at the papal court caused him to sell most of his grandfather Honoré II's art collection, denuding the palace he had earlier so spectacularly enhanced.

In 1781 Hontheim published a formal retraction, but its silence on the question of papal political power caused some subsequent doubt.