papacy
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Licence believes this change in England's relationship with the papacy probably took place after Harold became king in January 1066.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The decision is one of the most consequential acts of Leo’s young papacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
On July 4, Leo is scheduled to visit another port of call for migrants entering Europe, the Italian island of Lampedusa, solidifying the plight of migrants as a hallmark of his papacy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
A.I. has been a key motif of Leo’s nascent papacy, from early speeches to advisory groups to the reception of tech execs who’ve approached the holy man on their own.
From Slate ● May 28, 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
As a child, he knew the names of all the popes and the dates of their papacies, as well as the names and pertinent dates of England’s kings and queens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
There’s no satisfactory answer to that, although it’s fair to say that the papacies of Francis and Leo represent the first serious efforts to reckon with those more recent crimes.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which stretched across modern-day Tunisia, the north-east of Algeria and the coast of western Libya.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
They would do well to remember, however, that most of the polling data collected during the previous two papacies strongly indicated that American Catholics are not shy about deviating from Rome when it suited them.
From US News ● Sep. 28, 2015
Byzantine empires, Spanish Armadas, triple-crowned papacies, Russian despotisms, this is the way of them, and will be to the end of the world.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
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