12 sentences with 'papacy'

Example sentences and phrases with the word papacy and other words derived from it.

« The Latin Church was distinguished by the at least nominal leadership of the Rome-based papacy - indeed, it was the papal claim to leadership of the Christian Church as a whole that drove a permanent wedge between the western and eastern churches, as the Byzantine emperors claimed authority over both church and state. »
« In the eighth century, the papacy produced a document (forged, as it turned out) known as the Donation of Constantine in which the Roman emperor Constantine supposedly granted authority over the Western Roman Empire to the pope of Rome; that document was often cited by popes over the following centuries as "proof" of their authority. »
« Over the centuries the papacy struggled, and often failed, to assert its control over the Church as an institution and to keep the pretensions of kings in check. »
« This created enormous concern among non-French church officials (most of them Italian), who feared that the French king, then the most powerful ruler in Europe, had undue influence over the papacy. »
« In 1378, the new pope, Urban VI, announced his intention to move the papacy back to Rome. »
« The three great powers of the time, France, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, joined forces with each other and the papacy (which behaved like another warrior state) to seize Italian territory. »
« An emblematic example was the fact that the French crown almost completely controlled the French Church (despite battles with the papacy over this control), and directly appointed French bishops. In turn, these bishops often served the state as well as the church. »
« Not only did the papacy set a bad example, but attempts to reform the lifestyle and relative piety of priests generally failed; the papacy was simply too far removed from the everyday life of the priesthood throughout Europe, and since the elite ecclesiastics were all nobles, they generally continued to live like nobles. »
« And, while criticising the Pope's wealth and (implicit) greed, Luther did not attack the office of the papacy itself. »
« Henry VIII (r. 1509 - 1547) had received a special dispensation from the papacy to marry his brother's widow (a practice forbidden in the Old Testament of the Bible), Catherine of Aragon, aunt of Charles V and therefore a member of the most powerful royal line in Europe. Catherine, however, was only able to give Henry one daughter, Mary, and did not have a son. »
« With this in mind, France was not to be underestimated as a place of discovery, due in part to the cosmopolitanism of Paris and the traditional power of French kings to keep the papacy at arm's length. »
« Garibaldi returned to Italy during the revolutions of 1848 only to see his hopes for a united Italy free of foreign control dashed by the machinations of the Austrians, the French and the papacy. »

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