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Example sentences for: popes

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At their best, the popes and cardinals replaced military conquest by moral leadership and persuasion; at their worst, they could show the same hunger for political power and worldly wealth as any caesar or grand duke.
As in any collection of family pictures, there’s a preponderance of portraits, though here the aunts and uncles tend to be princesses, cardinals, and popes.
In Rome, the dissolute popes repeatedly switched factions for temporary advantage and lost all political and moral authority in the process.
For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.
Fazio , another case of either-or, can be a shortening of the first name Bonifazio , which means good fate' and which has been popular in Italy owing both to its meaning and to the fact that it was borne by a number of saints and popes.