Sentence examples for pontifical in from inspiring English sources

On Sunday, she looked positively pontifical in Alaïa.

There is something pontifical in his progress, and that same hint of the clerical recurs elsewhere in the way that he holds his hands — fingers steepled, locked together in front of his breast, as if bearing the Host at an invisible Mass.

This included the Raphael Tapestry "Healing the Lame Man," a 1 B.C. Roman Mosaic, the Fra Angelico frescoes in the Chapel of Nicholas V in Pontifical Palace in the Vatican, and the restoration of the Casina of Pope Pius IV in the Vatican Gardens near St. Peter's Basilica.

Father Paul Tomlinson of St. Peter's Church in Pittsburgh delivered the sermon in English and Archabbot Koch closed the ceremony with the Pontifical Benediction in Italian.

French troops reestablished pontifical power in Rome.

"The danger is huge," said the Rev. Thomas D. Williams, dean of theology at Regina Apostolorum, another pontifical university in Rome.

The Central University (government-sponsored) dates from 1586, the National Polytechnic School from 1869, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador from 1946 (raised to pontifical status in 1963).

The Rev. Michael Curran, the academic dean of the North American Pontifical College in Rome, performed the ceremony at St. Edmund's Roman Catholic Church in Breezy Point, Queens.

— D.D. GUTTENPLAN Catholicic university follows the pope onto social media A pontifical university in Rome will introduce a new digital journalism program next month, the school has said in a statement.

The priest, had held a post at the congregation of the doctrine of the faith since 2003 and taught theology at pontifical universities in Rome, posts from which he has also been dismissed.

None have his career longevity or pedigree, which includes a position as a lecturer on movies at the Gregorian, a revered pontifical university in Rome, and an Italian book of essays on movies, "Cinema: Sacred and Profane".