papacy
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Now, 18 months into his papacy, Leo is returning to his adopted homeland, the third and final leg of his first trip to Latin America, the world’s largest Catholic stronghold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
"This is how the papacy reconnects with Latin America after Francis, whose visits to the region were not always seamless," is how Professor Faggioli sees it.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
"This will be the most closely watched trip of Leo's papacy to date," Christopher White of Georgetown University in Washington and author of a book on Pope Leo, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Young traders are also getting rich betting on things like Rotten Tomatoes scores and the papacy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
As the papacy lost its hold on its flock, the Catholic Church tried to reject zero and the void more strongly than ever, yet zero had already taken root.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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He became an authority on the papacies of five popes - One of his most notable assignments was the assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
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
At major liturgical ceremonies Pope Benedict often wore a gold cross, red papal shoes and in winter a cape trimmed with ermine, a fur long associated with aristocracy and papacies of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2014
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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