Sentence examples for reference to the pope from inspiring English sources

"We cannot forgive or forget," the rabbi told the bishops, in an oblique reference to the pope.

"He [Marino] wanted to take advantage of it and this really upset the Number One," Paglia said, in an apparent reference to the pope.

Bobby Simpson, a 53-year-old construction worker at the Rangers' game, said that even before the new law, an acquaintance had been jailed overnight for inserting an unflattering reference to the pope in a traditional Rangers song.

It was a reference to the pope's opposition to abortion.

Cestiè lets slip a reference to the pope's "butlers", or assistants, and then corrects himself.

"They had him convinced that illegal immigration is a wonderful thing," he added, implying a reference to the pope's Mexican hosts.

"It's false advertising," said Fernán Altuve, a conservative legal expert who supports a recent order by the Vatican that the school change its name by eliminating references to the pope and the church.

There are also up-to-date references to the Pope's resignation.

There are over 400 "references to the pope in documents, orders, letters, statements, etc dating back to at least 1827," Woolley wrote in an email.

Williams referred to the pope's vehicle as a "Mr. Bean car," a reference to the British TV sitcom character played by Rowan Atkinson.

Her riff on nuns (was this a sly reference to the new Pope Francis?) and her "Good Girl and Bad Girlrl" belts, in keeping with the sexual quotient of various outfits, made a merry counterpoint to the nostalgia.