All 9 Uses of
papacy
in
Angels & Demons
- Mr. Langdon, it is true that Vatican rule dictates the camerlegno assume chief executive office during conclave, but it is only because his lack of eligibility for the papacy ensures an unbiased election.†
Chpt 35-36
- At seventy-nine years old he had crossed the unspoken threshold beyond which the college no longer trusted one's health to withstand the rigorous schedule of the papacy.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal's "fastest route to heaven.†
Chpt 41-42
- When it came to pursuing the papacy, there was a Holy Trinity-Conservative.†
Chpt 41-42
- Attaining the papacy required a certain amount of political ambition, something the young camerlegno apparently lacked; he had refused his Pope's offers for higher clerical stations many times, saying he preferred to serve the church as a simple man.†
Chpt 41-42
- That very cardinal who had taken the camerlegno under his wing had apparently later risen to the papacy and brought with him his young protege to serve as chamberlain.†
Chpt 85-86
- You are no doubt aware that by Holy Law the camerlegno is ineligible for election to the papacy.†
Chpt 127-128
- The bishop who had taken him in, the man who had been like a father to him, the clergyman whom the camerlegno had stood beside while he rose to the papacy …. was a fraud.†
Chpt 129-130
- He was the runaway favorite for the papacy.†
Chpt 133-134
Definition:
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(papacy) the office and authority of the pope
or:
the duration of a pope's time as pope
or:
the government of the Roman Catholic Church -- with a pope at the head