Sentence examples for papist from inspiring English sources

It is not so long since presidents observed an unwritten convention against having more than one papist on the court.The turnaround is all the more surprising for two reasons who was responsible and when it happened.

To be papist, many thought, required a priest.The government came to fear that Jesuit clerics were in cahoots with the pope.

"High" Anglicans can be more papist than the pope.

Richard Davies, archdeacon of Lichfield, reported, "He died a papist".

For "twelve years a papist," he was also in fact though not in title Protestant England's first poet laureate.

Tory was an Irish term suggesting a papist outlaw and was applied to those who supported the hereditary right of James despite his Roman Catholic faith.

And precisely because Irish nationalism is showing a more secular face than ever before, the old anti-Papist rhetoric of hard-core Protestantism no longer has much traction; it needs some new dogs to kick.And because of the free-speech issues it raises, this is more than a storm in a Northern Irish teacup.

Conradin fled first to Rome, where the pro-papist Welfs, who had gained power, did not make him welcome, and then to Astura, whence he hoped to sail to Sicily.

Emboldened by the power that they had gained as pro-papist Guelf chiefs in the 14th century, they made two unsuccessful attempts to seize power.

The same thing happens with the anti-Papist "Every Sperm Is Sacred" which climaxes with two huge candy-striped willy-cannons ejaculating all over the first 10 rows.

The vehemently anti-papist stance of the seven societies that operate in Lewes is not noticeably shared elsewhere.