Sentence examples for those popes from inspiring English sources

This prompted a lingering question: could those Popes have even remotely imagined the world of 2010?

The rest of those popes -- their bodies, that is -- are scattered across various churches in Rome.

But those Popes didn't tend to call the earth our "sister, mother" or assert that chipmunks and trout are our siblings.

Among those Pope John Paul II will soon consecrate as saints are the founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, Josemaria Escriva, and the mystic Italian priest Padre Pio, who is said to have borne the stigmata, the wounds of Jesus.

Frederick's attempts to gain control over Italy thus split the peninsula between those who sought to enhance their powers and prerogatives by siding with the emperor and those (including the popes) who opposed any imperial interference.

He writes, "If the Vatican never approved the extermination of the Jews -- indeed, the Vatican opposed it (albeit quietly), the teachings and actions of the church, including those of the popes themselves, helped make it possible".

In those days the popes, though they evidently thought they knew the whole world inside and out, really didn't.

Bear in mind that those breakaway popes of the 14th century weren't short of a franc or two.

We know that turn-around efforts on lower rungs than those where popes try to regain a footing are led by grieving but often reform-minded leaders who get less notice than do the abusers.

Although generally supportive of the northern Italian communal movements, the popes opposed those in central Italy and in Rome itself, where a revolt against papal authority took place in the early 1150s.

Is it possible for those who regard the popes' claim to be the representatives of God on earth as wrong, or simply nonsensical, to view with some respect the papacy of John Paul, and the church he remoulded?In many new ways, the pope did reach out to other religions, and to mankind as a whole.