Word: papally
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...service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together for armed rebellion. And many an Englishman who had welcomed , a return to the old ways hesitated in insular fear when he saw, on Mary's one hand, the long-absent papal legate and, on the other, her new husband, Prince Philip of Spain...
...rostrum in the old papal courthouse where Italy's Chamber of Deputies fights its stormy battles had the broad, florid face of a peasant surmounted by a thatch of obstreperous, oiled-down red hair. But the voice that came out was the courtly, confident baritone of a man who, to the surprise of almost all concerned, has blossomed almost overnight into Italy's leading statesman. For two hours last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella ranged over Italy's relations with the rest of the world...
...Bishops bearing this honorary title take precedence in papal processions over other bishops and archbishops. Present number of assistants: 82 bishops, 49 archbishops...
...real-life priest was no ordinary padre. He was the Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna, Giacomo Lercaro, 61, known as the most unconventional cardinal in the college and one of the most papábile (Italian for papal timber). Only six years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican...
...tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another successor, bequeathed Russia a murderous struggle for power...