Sentence examples for papal image from inspiring English sources

Since being elected pontiff in March 2013, Pope Francis has established a distinctive papal image that led to Time magazine declaring him its Person of the Year.

A papal double, she explained.

The reporters included Giovanna Chirri, the Latin-speaking Vatican specialist for the Ansa news agency who broke news of Benedict's resignation, and a visually impaired radio journalist whose guide dog also received a papal blessing – a fitting image for a pope seeking inspiration from the patron saint of animals.

It did so when the committee chosen by Pope Paul VI urged admission that the ban on contraception was wrong, and the pope overrode it to save the image of past papal authority.

John L. Allen Jr., the author of "Conclave: the Politics, Personalities and Process of the Next Papal Election," published this year by Image, agreed that among some Vatican officials, "There is the rolling of one's eyes that goes on at times in response to what's perceived as American insularity".

Image: Pope Francis I, General Papal Audience at St. Peter's Square, The Vatican, Rome, Italy (June 10 , 2015.

Mr. Kuchma, who orchestrated the invitation for the papal visit, will meet the pope and burnish the image he has worked to resurrect this spring as the only Ukrainian leader who can provide stability as the country seeks to recover the momentum for reform.

It showed an image of Pope Francis in the window of the papal apartments overlooking St .Peter's Square.

Once on the Papal throne, he determined to make the Church in his own image, appointing no fewer than 67 cardinals, nearly all of them traditionalist in their views.

Certain images stand out in the long stretches of papal history: Emperor Henry IV barefoot in the snow begging pardon from Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in 1077.

Michelangelo chose the Ancestors of Christ as the subject of these images, thus portraying Jesus' physical lineage, while the papal portraits are his spiritual successors according to Church doctrine.