How to Use the Vatican in a Sentence

the Vatican

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• Forbes has reached out to the Vatican for further comment.
  — William Skipworth, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The cardinals meet every few months for two or three days at the Vatican.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• Appeals by the defendants could prolong the case which has roiled the Vatican for years.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The three-week synod, or meeting, starts at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 4 and will run until Oct. 29.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Newsom left the Vatican with the pope’s praise for refusing to impose the death penalty.
  — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• Make time for sightseeing at the Colosseum, the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
• My gift had been planned for months, and the Papal Blessing from the Vatican was scheduled for delivery the exact day of the wedding.
  — Masada Siegel, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• The 86-year-old pope had planned to attend the conference but a lung inflammation forced him to remain in the Vatican.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• In October, the government freed 12 other Catholic priests from prison and sent them to Rome, under a deal with the Vatican.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• In April, the pope spent three days at Gemelli Hospital for what the Vatican said was bronchitis.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• With that singular passage in the new document, the Vatican has put it there.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
• A few years later, in December 2019, the couple met Pope Francis at the Vatican.
  — Vandana Pawa, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
• Plus, the sale usurped an arcane rule that the Vatican must approve church property sales in excess of $7.5 million.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Pope Francis released his response more broadly at the beginning of the synod at the Vatican, in Rome.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• The president and the pope will hold a bilateral meeting at the Vatican on Monday.
  — Manuela Tobias, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2024
• The summary judgment by the Vatican can only be undone by a ruling of the pope or the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith acting in his name.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• The village was in the crosshairs of the Inquisition, seeking to crush a Gnostic splinter group known as the Cathars, whose beliefs were branded heretical by the Vatican.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• There has been much confusion in the last 48 hours over a letter composed by Pope Francis that the Vatican released on Monday.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• But the Vatican hoped his words would resonate, regardless.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• At 18, Debora toured the Vatican and encountered art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods for the first time.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Last week, the de facto leader of the conservative opposition to Francis held court in a theater across the street from the Vatican.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Following his death in 2006, the Diocese of Assisi petitioned the Vatican to recognize Acutis as a saint.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 24 May 2024
• Newsom traveled more than 6,000 miles from California to the Vatican to give a speech before — and hopefully talk with — the pope about climate change.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
• But Newsom is flying to Rome that day to speak at a climate conference at the Vatican and bumped his presentation up to Friday.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• In other photos, the kids posed with the Vatican's Swiss guard, and then almost accidentally ran off into a restricted area of the church.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
• Shortly thereafter, the Vatican announced that Casey had resigned as bishop of Galway but remained in the priesthood.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The country’s bishops have repeatedly called for the Vatican to expel Bishop Vangheluwe from the priesthood with the case becoming a symbol of the abuse scandals in the country.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• Now in the Vatican Museums, the Laocoön is the most famous sculpture of antiquity, showing the priest of Apollo and his two sons struggling with a pair of flesh-eating snakes.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• And in May, the Vatican announced its intentions to establish a permanent office in China, home to millions of Catholics.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• But as criticism has grown louder in recent months, the Vatican has taken more decisive action.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024