How to Use the Vatican in a Sentence

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• Now there’s no stopping the stream of cardinals hustling to the Vatican from all over the world.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
• Forbes has reached out to the Vatican for further comment.
  — William Skipworth, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• And some of the wines are from their Villa Pepoli, an estate that once supplied fine wines to the Vatican.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Everyone in the cast chews up the Vatican City scenery, and those theartics are somewhat warranted.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• The first summit was held at the Vatican in October 2022 under the auspices of Pope Francis.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 11 Oct. 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
• During one prep visit to the Vatican in late 2022, Benedict, the Pope Emeritus, died.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 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 brief message was posted Monday on the Vatican website.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024