It is not very probable that the pagan pontiffs should have omitted so fine an opportunity of getting back their grand pontiff, who had abandoned them.
It must be remembered that Hus's time was an age of warlikepontiffs and of bishops who commanded armies.
But matters instead of being mended hereby were only made worse; for neither of the deposed pontiffs would lay down his authority in obedience to the demands of the council, and consequently there were now three Popes instead of two.
The College ofPontiffs was so called because one of the duties of its members was to keep in repair the bridges (pontes) over which the religious processions were accustomed to pass.
However this may be, the pontiffs of Rome began very early to claim supremacy over all other bishops and patriarchs.
This was the most important of all the religious institutions of the Romans; for to the pontiffs belonged the superintendence of all religious matters.
However, on hearing this the Bogdo Khan himself did some research work and found in the old Tibetan manuscripts that one of the Tibetan Pontiffs was married and his son was a natural Incarnated Buddha.
The Pontiffs of Lhasa and Urga know and possess her mystery.
Several times the Pontiffs of Lhasa and Urga have sent envoys to the King of the World," said the Lama librarian, "but they could not find him.
Bogdo Khan is the thirty-first Incarnated Buddha from the time of Undur Gheghen and with him, therefore, the dynasty of the Urga Pontiffs must cease.
The clergy usurped judicial authority in civil affairs, as the sovereign pontiffs had usurped temporal authority.
It may be remembered that the sovereign pontiffs had frequently forbidden Christians to convey munitions or arms to the infidels.
Although the successors of Othman, after the reign of Selim, were the pontiffs of the national faith, this important dignity added nothing to their power.
The success obtained by the sovereign pontiffs was never proportionate with their efforts, and the uselessness of their attempts necessarily weakened the idea entertained of their ascendancy and their power.
But it is positive, that the end of the crusades left the sovereignpontiffs less powerful than they had been at the commencement of the holy wars.
The genius of the sovereign pontiffshas been much lauded, particularly for the purpose of placing their ambition in a stronger light.
The sovereign pontiffs were not at first aware of the advantages they might derive from the crusades.
Recourse was always had to the sovereign pontiffs when the question of a crusade was agitated; the holy war was preached in their name, and carried on under their auspices.
Thus did the Roman Pontiffs resist this attempt to enslave the Irish Church.
Pontiffs from four to eight, and that of the Augurs from four to nine, also enacted that four of the Pontiffs and five of the Augurs should be taken from the Plebeians.
At the same time, he increased the number of Pontiffs and Augurs to fifteen respectively.
But the haughtiest of pontiffs was seen to yield as soon as he felt the mail-clad hand of the Conqueror, and to shrink unresistingly before it.
But humility is not a virtue that flourishes among Romish pontiffs and legates: they love to remain seated while others court and worship them.
Such are the terms applied by the pontiffs to all that thwarts their ambition.
If he had never received the famous key, there was no reason why other pontiffs should have possessed it.
And this was not all: after him (he thought) there was no one who could uphold the church of the pontiffs in England.
This rule is to be applied to the Sovereign Pontiffs as to every one else.
Clementine and Extravagantes Johannis, and a few rescripts of later pontiffs are included in a second supplement, arranged like the Sextus, and called Extravantes Communes.
Executed at one time, they are, like the medallion portraits of the Pontiffs in S.
Thus for thousands of years have servants been amazed at the difference between pontiffs in the pulpit and pontiffs in the pantry.
In dealing with the schismatic, heretical Eastern Church, however, all careful reserve vanished and without fear or caution the Roman Pontiffs assert their prerogatives in a clear, decisive, and peremptory tone.
The decretals of the Roman Pontiffs were seized for this holy purpose.
Meanwhile, in order to facilitate the means of gaining an Indulgence so admirable, the Sovereign Pontiffs extended it to all the churches of the three Orders of St. Francis, and it may be gained by all the faithful indiscriminately.
This being assumed, is it not of some significance that when the Roman pontiffs proceeded to the banks of the Tiber to perform their annual (commemorative) ceremonial, that they should make their expiatory sacrifices to Saturn?
I do not examine whether the pontiffs of Rome are in the right to violate at their pleasure the law of him they regard as their master; whether when a state has need of an heir, it is permissible to repudiate her who can give it one.
He learns first of all that this people's pontiffshave arranged their year in so absurd a fashion that the sun has already the heavenly signs of spring when the Romans are celebrating the first festivals of winter.
Some would have even preferred a civil magistracy simply, as that of Alberic; they united rather in opposition to the emperor, than in favor of the pontiffs chosen without, or in defiance of, his authority.
In the course of the succeeding centuries, every thing depended, not on the progress of ignorance or the return of knowledge alone, but on the personal energy of the kings and of the pontiffs individually.
The Roman pontiffs themselves have asserted this general doctrine of the church to the year 1051; and it was religiously observed during upwards of a thousand years.
He who presumes to treat of it must fix his eyes steadfastly on that chain of destiny which universal history displays; he must turn with disdain from the phantom impostures of pontiffs and statesmen and kings.
Had not the sovereign pontiffs been so completely occupied with maintaining their emoluments and temporalities in Italy, they might have made the whole continent advance like one man.
These pontiffs acknowledged, in their turn, the supreme jurisdiction of the metropolitans or high priests of the province, who acted as the immediate vicegerents of the emperor himself.
Newman to write afresh this history, now that he is a Catholic, the important part acted by the Roman Pontiffs would be more strongly set forth.
The authority and action of the Roman Pontiffs is scarcely glanced at.
Has the lettered paganism which held its head so high in the days of the early Roman Pontiffs indeed revived in all its impenetrable pride, and with all its scorn of the Christian faith and the Christian people?
It is Italy which has given to the church almost the whole long line of Pontiffs who have filled the chair of St. Peter.
Between the Roman pontiffs and the secular heads of the Empire the struggle for supremacy had been long and often bitter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pontiffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
