Papacy
The pope (Latin: papa, from Greek: πάππας, romanized: pappas, "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (Pontifex maximus) or the Roman pontiff (Romanus Pontifex), is the bishop of Rome, chief pastor of the worldwide Catholic Church, and head of state or sovereign of the Vatican City State. The primacy of the bishop of Rome is largely derived from his role as the apostolic successor to Saint Peter, to whom primacy was conferred by Jesus, giving him the Keys of Heaven and the powers of "binding and loosing", naming him as the "rock" upon which the church would be built. Since …
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Pew Research Center · 12 April 2024 English
Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
view of Francis in many previous polls during his papacy, which began in 2013. Catholic Democrats (89%) …
Pew Research Center · 12 April 2024 English
Most say Francis represents change in the church. And many say the church should allow priests to marry and let Catholics use birth control.
dozen times we have asked this question since his papacy began in 2013. While Catholic Republicans have …
CEP: Centro de Estudios Públicos · 20 March 2024
century, the wri_ngs of Hildegard von Bingen on the clash of the universal powers –the Empire and the Papacy– and the end of the 1000 years of Church Ages marked another step in the seman_cs of the apocalypse …
clash of the universal powers –the Empire and the Papacy– and the end of the 1000 years of Church Ages marked …
HEPI: Higher Education Policy Institute · 22 November 2023 English
He subsequently worked at the Department of Trade and Industry, the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the …
the only medieval institutions – other than the Papacy – to have survived, his answer was ‘universities …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 7 November 2023 English
Therefore, the Medinan verses are to be read in the context of political circumstances of their times, whereas the Meccan verses as the phase when the basic tenents of the …
addition, the Gregorian Reform movement had made the papacy stronger and Italian shipping was beginning to …
IEEE: Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos · 27 October 2023 English
In fact, in 2005, with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican, a "crusade" against moral relativism and for the reconciliation of faith and reason began, with a moral campaign launched …
famous "do not be afraid" marks the beginning of a papacy that would place him at the centre of the world …
EU: European Union · 24 October 2023 English
and social decline throughout the rule of the papacy (it was a papal dominion from 1559 to 1796 and …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 24 October 2023
30,000 by 1000 CE, despite the presence of the papacy. Other towns disappeared completely. The Golden …
HJS: Henry Jackson Society · 18 October 2023 English
Whilst the understandable difficulties in the diagnostics, and the lack of documentation or proof in some cases, due to the very nature of political criminal poisonings, mean that it is …
alleged use of Cantarella by the Borgias during the papacy of Pope Alexander VI in the 15-16th century (the …
CESifo Network · 9 October 2023 English
Religion and Growth
20). With little access to coercive power, the papacy instead shaped states via doctrine, law, and administrative …
