Sentence examples for powerful cardinal from inspiring English sources

It issued an extraordinary communiqué on Monday chastising a powerful cardinal who had criticized another powerful cardinal — proof of a battle inside the Vatican walls that mirrors the anger over sexual abuse raging outside them.

Olivier, a young man in the service of a powerful cardinal, cares only for old manuscripts and poetry.

He is seen in the lower left corner of the painting above, with his uncle, the powerful Cardinal Borromeo, standing to his left.

The daring escapades of the four comrades are played out against a background of court intrigue involving the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

It was maliciously rumoured that she had had an affair with the powerful Cardinal de Richelieu, King Louis XIII's chief minister.

Kirkcaldy was one of the Protestant conspirators who murdered the powerful cardinal David Beaton at St. Andrews Castle in May 1546.

The waning days of Benedict's troubled papacy were marked by complaints from ordinary Catholics as well as from powerful cardinals that the Curia had become too concerned with accumulating power and unresponsive to the needs of its followers.

His adherence to the powerful cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin kept him in uninterrupted exercise of his functions until 1650.

Beneath the pope, a handful of powerful cardinals preside over nine congregations, including ones that manage religious orders, global missionary work, the liturgy and the naming of bishops, as well as 12 pontifical councils.

President Bush appealed to a ballroom full of Roman Catholic voters on Tuesday in a speech to the Knights of Columbus and an array of the church's most powerful cardinals.

Neri Maria Corsini, cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement XII (1730 1740) was by far the most powerful cardinal-nephew of the 18th century, on account of his uncle's advanced age and blindness.