papacy
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But as outrage mounted in Italy, home to the papacy, she said she needed to clarify that she had found Trump’s words “unacceptable.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
American Catholic politics under Pope Leo look quite different from the politics in the later part of Pope Francis’ papacy, which spanned Trump’s first term.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
It is his second major foreign visit since being elected to the papacy last year, and reflects the importance of Catholicism in Africa.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
A separate U.S. official reportedly brought up the fourteenth-century Avignon papacy.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
Although he made use of his reputation for generosity in order to gain the papacy, Pope Julius II then decided not to maintain this reputation, in order to be able to wage war.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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