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Example sentences for: papal

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The article blames the church's nonapology on the doctrine of papal infallibility, which shackles the church to its sordid past.
The backspin: The United States and Canada have gained more cardinals, and to woo them, candidates for the papacy will have to be more sensitive to American Catholics' dissent from papal teachings on divorce, remarriage, and women in the priesthood.
The Venetians restored their republic, a Piedmontese army joined up with troops from Tuscany, the Papal States, and Naples, and a new democratic Roman Republic was proclaimed.
Alas, that may not be enough--the Papal inner circle insists that it's the spirit of participation that counts.
In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."