Even their instinct of nationality is being sensibly impaired by their gradual assimilation to the Papal Church, whose agents exercise from Beirut an increasing influence on their ecclesiastical elections and church government.
Modern conditions The papal influence was also retained by means of the suburban bishoprics, which took their rise as early as the 4th and 5th centuries.
It was Wolsey who first, as papal legate, removed the convocation entirely from St. Paul's to Westminster, to be near his house at Whitehall.
There is also preserved the originalPapal Bull sent to Henry VIII.
He was preparing for the press, and had almost finished, a book entituled 'Imago Imaginis,' the design of which was to show that Rome Papal was an image of Rome Pagan.
Papal power in this reign attained its greatest height in England.
On the eve of the election of Sandys as Bishop of London, May, 1570, all London was roused by a papal bull against Elizabeth being found nailed on the gates of the bishop's palace.
Twelve years after, when a Papal Legate enthroned himself in St. Paul's, he was there openly resisted by Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester.
Here thePapal legate and the highest bishops frequently held conferences; and on Sunday mornings the Master of the Temple held chapters, enjoined penances, made up quarrels, and pronounced absolution.
But now so little heed was paid to his excommunication, that a second Papal Bull was launched forth, anathematizing even such as should listen to the heretical and incendiary preaching of this poor priest, Robert Annys.
It was a contest over the best method of suppressing the poor priests, and it had taken many secret embassies to Rome, and many letters in cipher sent to trusted friends at the Papal Court.
Indeed, too often had the Pope tried rather to fleece them than to feed them, so that a Mediaeval wit was led to remark that the Papal staff should be shaped as a pair of shears, rather than as a shepherd's crook.
It was not alone that the Papal Legate sat there before him, the presence of Rome was felt in every one of the countless forms of the Rubric.
He agreed with the Papal Legate that the incendiary preaching of the poor priests must be stamped out, but he had some theories of his own as to this stamping-out process, and persecution bore no part in them.
The Lombard king, Desiderius, had made use of his absence to plunder the papal see, to which Adrian had now succeeded.
While recognizing him as head of the Church, he declined to hold his kingdom as his vassal, nor would he permit papal bulls to enter England or excommunications to be issued against any of his subjects without his leave.
TN]] There was a time, when the doctrines of the Reformation seemed destined to achieve far ampler conquests over the dominion of Papal Rome than they have ultimately realized.
He died before all was free to the Adriatic, and while Rome was yet ruled by the Papal autocrat.
But this was the condition of Rome under the Papal power.
Todd to have made its appearance in this Collection; being now fully convinced that the charge brought against that reverend gentleman of intending to pass off as genuine his famous mock Papal Letter was altogether unfounded.
Since a point was made of the presence of a papal legate in England, he was so far ready to give way; but so far only.
Pole, however, was too faithful a child of the church to disobey a papal injunction; he relinquished his office, but he sent Ormaneto to Rome with his own entreaties and protests.
If in accepting these terms he would agree to a humiliating reconciliation, only those who objected on doctrinal grounds to the papal religion were inclined to persist in refusing a return of his friendship.
From the beginning of the Reformation in 1529, two distinct movements had gone on side by side--the alteration of doctrines, and the emancipation of the laity from papal and ecclesiastical domination.
He was not to suppose that he might introduce changes in the constitution of the country by the authority of a papal commission, or try experiments which might put in peril the sacred person of the prince.
Whatever might be the feelings of the people towards the papal legate, they gave to Reginald Pole the welcome due to an English nobleman.
The effects of these cross influences on the papal statute, though they cannot be traced in detail, must have been not inconsiderable.
Mary accompanied him to Dover, and there a papal nuncio met her, bringing a commission by which Pole was reduced into the ordinary rank of archbishop; and the office of papal representative was conferred on Peto, the Greenwich friar.
In the midst of the suspense the papal chair fell vacant again.
Ridley and Latimer came next, and over them the papal mantle flung no protection.
It was no small thing for the Papal See to gain the distinguished band of converts, of which Newman and Manning are the most conspicuous.
Or is it in Italy herself, preserving indeed her outward allegiance to the Papal See, but it is to be feared with little faith of any kind surviving among her people?
Monstrelet records a similar instance in the campaigns of the Duke of Bedford, in the following century; and another in Papal history, belonging to 1540, may be read in Ranke.
The Pope may be reduced to 'the Vatican, and a garden,' but the Papal superstition still clings closely to multitudes of men, especially of the Celtic race.
Poland and Matthias, were commanded in turn to execute the papaldecree of deposition, and Matthias gladly placed his army at the disposal of the Holy See.
He retired to Rome, where he was imprisoned in the castle of St Angelo for six months for his disobedience to the papal orders, and died in 1817, a year or two after his release, of disease contracted in prison and of chagrin.
There exist also the preparations for an edition of Rufinus and one of Eusebius, and for the continuation of the Papal Letters and of the Concilia Galliae.
Papal bulls and seals, but the Grace of God is scant in you.
At present they do not show the hideous features which they, at least in some cases, assume in countries where papal influence and authority are supreme.
A kind of telegraphic communication is established with the remotest stations in South Africa and Siberia, and with almost every nook in our own land, to which the myrmidons of Papal power look with the most of fear.
I thought I should be able to hold out till I got into the Modanese, where I believed I should be in less danger than while I remained in the papal dominions.
Yet, as we were still within the reach of the guns of the papal forts, my heart was by no means at rest.
For a time the Pope and the King of France endeavoured to find a via media which should save appearances, for Charles would not bind himself to carry out by force the Papal deposition of Henry, which Clement wanted.
The Papal decree directing the execution of the deprivation of Henry, though signed by the Pope, was still held back; for Charles could not afford to invade England himself, and was determined to give no excuse for Francis to do so.
Cromwell and Anne were panic-stricken at the idea of reopening the question of the marriage before any Papal tribunal, and kept up Henry's resentment against the Pope.
Wolsey to exercise all the Papal functions during the Pope's captivity: "by which, without informing the Pope of your (i.
Great preparations had been made to entertain the Papal Legate splendidly in London, and on his way thither; but he was suffering and sorry, and begged to be saved the fatigue of a public reception.
The Spaniards explained the absence of any record of the document in the Papal Registry by saying that at the urgent prayer of Isabel the Catholic on her deathbed, the original brief had been sent to her as soon as it was granted.
Henry was in dire fear, however, of some action of the Emperor in enforcement of the Papal excommunication against him and his kingdom, which according to the Catholic law he had forfeited by the Pope's ban.
Even the incestuous nature of the union was to be no bar to its being effected, though no Papal dispensation had been yet obtained.
The Papal Court was divided, then and always, into French and Spanish factions, and in North Italy French and Spanish agents perpetually tried to outwit each other.
It was not primarily a breach between the Church of England and the Roman communion, a repudiation on the part of English ecclesiastics of a harassing papal yoke; for it is fairly obvious that under Henry VIII.
The Church of St. Peter and the papal palace, from the basement to the top, were turned into stables for horses.
Emperor's power was really too great, or out of revenge for his betrayal over the papal election.
Commercial interests were the most powerful impulse of the age, and the Commons were afraid that the Act of Appeals might be followed by a papal interdict.
Flemings were tearing down the papal censures from the doors of their churches,[914] and Charles was as convinced as ever of the necessity of Henry's friendship.
The Pope resolved to publish the bull of deprivation, which had been drawn up in August, 1535, though its execution had hitherto been suspended owing to papal (p.
Never, wrote Pole to the Regent, had a papal legate been so treated before.
Within a few weeks of his accession he refused to publish the papal bull which cast the halo of crusaders over the bandits of Cambrai.
There was no longer a papal army to oppose him, and the march southward proceeded without a check.
He would have succeeded in capturing the famous city had not the French come to the aid of the papal troops.
As the representative of the pope for England, he exercised almost full papal authority there.
Then they agreed to pay and to renounce allpapal orders contrary to the King's authority.
Encouraged by the king, he argued against the supremacy of the papal law over the King's courts and against payments to the papacy.
The general public was so persuaded by the arguments that the earth revolved around the sun that Papal authority felt threatened.
The bishops, nobility, and Justices of the Peace were commanded to imprison clergy who taught papal authority.
If anyone maintains papal authority, he forfeits his goods; on a third conviction, he is a traitor.
Peter's Pence was no longer paid by the people, so the burden of papal exaction fell wholly on the clergy.
He was created a protonotary apostolic, and in July returned to Germany, as papal nuncio, with the celebrated bull Exsurge Domine directed against Luther's writings.
He was strong enough to refuse to pay the tribute to Rome which John had promised, and his reign saw the end of that papal overlordship over England which had greatly complicated the situation under his father.
He was confirmed in this intention by the papal encroachments of the year 1240, when the English clergy were required to pay a subsidy of a fifth for the war against Frederick II.
Inquisition becoming firmly established, it thenceforward continued a Catholic province of the Roman Church, until Rome and the Papal Spanish empire fell together by the hands of Napoleon.
But, having succeeded in establishing the temporal power of her bishops in Mexico more firmly than in the United States, the Papal court made another step in advance.
I do not even mean the Papal conceptions about the Holy War.
The Austrian ambassador at the Papal Court was unwearied in his endeavors to circumvent the peaceful mission of Joseph.
Thus he was not at all disposed to favor any insurrectionary movements in Rome; neither was he disposed to render any aid whatever to the Papal Government in opposing those who were struggling for greater political liberty.
By the intrigues of Austria, General Provera, an Austrian officer, was placed in command of all the Papal forces.
This rascal was so magnificent, that he presented her with the beautiful palace that he had in the Papal capital.
The Fidessa of Spenser, the great enemy of Una, or Truth, is far more subtly conceived, probably not without special reference to the Papal deceits.
To this exclusion of Papal influence from her councils, the Romanist will attribute their irreligion, and the Protestant their success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apostolic; clerical; ecclesiastical; pontifical; sacerdotal
