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Popes seldom weigh in on economic matters and rarely in the form of an encyclical, one of the most authoritative forms of papal writing.

The new Antipope will get a considerable boost in piety, making him one of the top-candidates for the next papal elections.

President Bush has welcomed Pope Benedict on his first papal visit to the United States during a joyous ceremony on the White House lawn.

His 33-day papacy was one of the shortest reigns in papal history, resulting in the most recent "Year of Three Popes. "

For a time, he traveled with the captain of the papal army, Cesare Borgia, as a military designs.

The culminating point of this sweep of walls was the Papal gate, that is to say, near the present site of the Pantheon.

decretal: a decree, especially a papal letter giving a decision on a point or question of canon law.

Pope Benedict XVI holds a press conference aboard his papal plane as he heads to Lisbon, Portugal for a four day visit.

"Have courage, " he admonished the many millions who, in his first papal visit to Poland in 1979, saw and prayed with him.

In a papal document to be published today, the Vatican will promise to adhere to European rules that are targeting money laundering.

Refusing to have the millennium-old traditional papal coronation, he instead opted for a simplified ceremony.

A fatwa is not universally binding like a papal edict; rather, it simply expresses the opinion of the mufti who issues it.

Jin Shan's Water division tells a story of an encounter between a drowned body in papal costume and a lone wanderer.

Popes residing in Avignon oversaw the walls' construction, but they built even stronger barriers around the Papal Palace.

Thousands of miles away, on the frontier between Argentina and Chile, papal diplomacy is remembered in a different way.

Avignon's Palace also had to go to the old building, at the time of the papal residence outside Rome, magnificent, magnificent interior.

Furthermore, if papal organs were donated, they would become relics in other bodies if he were eventually made a saint.

He announced the names of 24 new cardinals, including 20 below the age of 80 who will thus get the right to vote in a papal election.

On Sunday an Italian nun in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, was shot dead at the entrance to a hospital; many feared a link to the papal row.

Samson had already done good service to the church, having secured immense sums from Germany and Switzerland to fill the papal treasury.

Charlemagne had won the undying support of Leo III by restoring him to the papal throne after an uprising.

They were commissioned by a papal envoy, Rodrigo Borja, a Spaniard who went on to become Pope Alexander VI in 1492.

Coverage will be on a scale never dreamed of in 1978, the year in which there was not one, but two papal funerals.

Protests by Jewish groups and the German government rattled the Vatican and imperilled a papal trip to Israel.

For medieval clerics, it was the city that housed the papal seat.

Barrow: English theologian, scholar, and mathematician who wrote about trigonometry , optics, and papal supremacy.

That may have advantages: John Paul neglected the papal administration, the Curia, which badly needs modernising.

In selecting a host city, the IOC, acting like a papal conclave, takes a series of votes until a candidate receives a majority.

Papal diplomats, all priests nowadays, are trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome.

Were the Church now to repudiate that doctrine, it would undermine papal authority.

In Burundi all top politicians and expatriates flock to Archbishop Gallagher's residence for the papal feast day.

The attempt on papal life resulted from the ambition of overwhelming authoritarianism in antebellum Europe.

Supporting the authority of the papal court over national or diocesan authority .

But in addition to these extraordinary levies there were many permanent sources of revenue for the support of the Papal Court.

It says that under Canon Law, excommunication is automatic for ordinations without papal approval.

In 1250, St Francis and Innocent IV, threw a Papal Ring into the sea during a formal Roman cult ceremony.

The papal conclave will start Tuesday afternoon following morning mass at the Vatican.

Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.

Sometimes papal Rome was a den of corruption and uncleanness.

Henry needed more money for his wars against Wales and France, and to support a papal crusade.

However, the problem of papal rule has been rendered more difficult by nineteenth century Roman declarations of papal infallibility.

For a taste of opulence, see Avignon's Papal Palaces. . .

His Excellency , the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Altomonte.

He was threatened with a papal interdict.

It says recent ordinations by the state-run church were carried out without papal approval and are illegitimate.

But opposition to assisted conception is official papal policy.

I mean, they just have like a bishop or a pope who is just a human being sending down papal bulls. . . papal BS!

In the rich world one respecter of papal clout is Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown.

an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the Papal see.

Then normal candidates for Italian unification are Sardinia -Piedmont, the Papal States, or the Two Sicilies.

the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull.

Relating to or supporting the doctrine of papal supremacy.

Speaking of the Papal controversy.

Some young punk at Sunday Mass tried to Papal Pound me.

An independent papal state on the Tiber River within Rome, Italy.

He would be amazed to find that in 2007 papal diplomacy is more active than ever.

Papal diplomacy is almost as old as the papacy.

For powerful ones, it offers a way to influence the Vatican and seek papal approval.

You don't, for example, have papal infallibility declared as a doctrine until the early twentieth century.

There will be various payment methods, including charge cards, papal, credit cards and more.

An often honorary papal attendant.

You found the ancient brands in the papal vaults and put them to use.

Pope The papal government; the papacy.

papal autopsy's prohibited by Vatican law.

A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.

The papal authority is sovereign.

Prior to 1870, however, political control by papal governments in central Italy spanned approximately 16. 000 square miles.

Sicilies which bordered the papal states to the south.

A papal account and the ability to post ads.

For this reason, if for no other, we should take this papal bull seriously.

I am a huge germaphobe, so at church i give people a Papal Pound.

Are you going to attend the Papal mass?

Are there new offers and requests we can make? For example can we bribe other factions to rig papal elections?

Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today. )

Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge

Liaison for Vatican-Jewish relations says he was not consulted on papal decision

After John Paul's death, the papal apartment was fitted out as a virtual hospice;

Papal Financial Policy in the Early Modern Period

political control by papal governments in central Italy

wrested political power from the papal governments

absorbed the so-called "Papal States" into its territory

Papal States (States of The Church)

where a grass-roots initiative among priests incurred a papal rebuke last year,