Sentence examples for pope down from inspiring English sources

From the Pope down, he hated Catholics, especially Irish ones.

As John Paul arrived, President Hosni Mubarak escorted the frail 79-year-old pope down a red carpet at the airport, and a band played the triumphal march from Verdi's "Aida," which is set in Egypt.

But once the Pope touched down in Edinburgh, everything changed.

Two years ago, he wrote a play about a pope standing down from office.

Lately, the number has fallen to half that, and with the pope stepping down, it is likely to fall further.

But as the papal states lost territory to Italy in the late 19th century, the pope came down hard on women, declaring all abortion to be murder.

The 80-year-old pope looked down on the manger during a noon appearance at his window on St. Peter's Square.

When his helicopter arrived in Bethlehem later in the day, the pope bent down and kissed a bowl of local soil offered to him by two small children.

Juan Cole, a U.S. commentator on the Middle East, has suggested that although the pope backed down on some of his positions, "Pope Benedict roiled those relationships with needlessly provocative and sometimes offensive statements about Islam and Muslims".

In his final briefing yesterday to reporters before the Pope touches down, Archbishop Nichols admitted that the global Catholic Church should have done better in its handling of clerical abuse.

"Is there anybody like him?" Maurizio Cattelan, a conceptual master of startling images (such as his sculptural installation of the Pope struck down by a meteorite), asked me recently.