Papal Primacy: From Its Origins to the Present. Theological Studies (9/1/1997)
...trace the origins of the historically developed papal primacy. He does not discuss other aspects of the...indirectly to primacy, such as the Roman curia, papal finances, or the papal states. His exegesis of the data is meticulous, avoiding...

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome.(Review) Notes (12/1/2000)
...concentrates on music connected to papal traditions and ceremonies...Lamentations. As editor Richard Sherr states in his preface, "The conclusion...namely that the music the papal choir valued most, that is...p. xi). Part 2, "The Papal Choir as Institution," offers...

Pondering St. Louis' papal priorities. National Catholic Reporter (2/12/1999)
...Postal Service offered a pictorial papal postmark from the papal plaza. Entrepreneurs went to...religious leader. Not a head of state or finance, not an Internet whiz...the time to make his point. The papal schedule: Three motorcades...

Humanae Vitae: still controversial at 30. (retrospect of papal authority and the Catholic Church's ban on birth control) National Catholic Reporter (7/31/1998)
...the role and function of papal teaching. In the ensuing 30...in the present papacy, the papal position has become even more...dissent in this case. The United States bishops, while insisting on...of dissent from noninfallible papal teaching despite the "massive...

Papal buttons but no pope soap The Boston Globe (10/8/1995)
...running joke from previous papal visits to the United States. As a result, items such as papal sunglasses, coffee mugs and foam miters, or papal hats, were rejected. But...generally meets with the head of state or a vice president but not...

Papal Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace: The Vatican and International Organizations from the Early Years to the League of Nations.(Book Review) Journal of Church and State (9/22/2005)
...detailed analysis of the framework of papal diplomacy. Chapters two and three...argue that even with the loss of the papal states, the papacy maintained its status...to Pius XI, who, through various papal statements, made the connection...

Signorotto, Gianvittorio, and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, eds. Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700.(Book Review)(Brief Article) History: Review of New Books (1/1/2003)
...although at the end of the period the papal secretary of state started to assume the role once held by the papal relative. In spite of that monarchical...their ranks, and the great question in papal elections was which family and which faction...

He executed justice.(papal execution Giovanni Battista Bugatti's life and work) National Catholic Reporter (9/14/2001)
...guillotine was used scores of times by papal warrant. The man who performed virtually...the Romans, had been carrying out papal death sentences since 1796. He continued...a year before the collapse of the Papal States he served so faithfully. Mastro...

PAPAL VISIT PROMPTS WAVE OF TACKY TRINKETS.(Living Today) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (9/17/1987)
...But on his trip to the United States this month, anybody can get...bet. But in this year of the papal tour across America, just about...go to the bathroom on a papal toilet seat, tell time with...put out your cigarette in a papal ashtray. You can put an oil...