Examples of the papacy

• Eventually, it seems that sheer exhaustion contributed to the papacy's decision to back down, but even here the peace that was forged was not straightforward.

• He initiated the modern diplomatic role of the papacy in international affairs.

• In the second section the focus turns toward relations with the papacy from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.

• It is not surprising that the papacy also took great interest in this case.

• The papacy right through the thirteenth century maintained its position that a central bureaucracy had to be paid for.

• This is more than a study of the lives of four popes, or of the changes in the institution of the papacy.

• He took the then very radical view that the papacy should lose its temporal power.

• The debates regarding the papacy's role, in all their complexity and acrimony, are part of a wider reality of shame and disorientation.