College of Cardinals

Not the Pope himself shall have these from me, though he sent the whole college of cardinals to ask it.

"I've been a member of the college of cardinals for more than ten years.

The Pope is elected by the "college of cardinals".

They balked at the last moment, and both colleges of cardinals abandoned their popes.

The collective name for cardinals is college of cardinals.

There's nothing democratic about literary judgement anyway, so I see no objection to a reversion to something like a college of cardinals.

The college of cardinals in 1059 was created to free papal elections from interference by Emperor and nobility.

When the papel chair is vacant a pope is elected by the college of cardinals from among themselves.

The Reform movement of the eleventh century was behind the building up of the college of cardinals and its privileges.

That was where the Holy Father received heads of state, and members of the college of cardinals.

His ideas on the powers of the college of cardinals and the infallibility of the general council were very influential.

Western Europe actually made the biggest gains, increasing its weight in the college of cardinals from 36 percent of the electors to 38 percent.

Perhaps conscious of this disadvantage, one of his first acts after the war was to internationalize the college of cardinals.

The chairmen, nicknamed "the college of cardinals" by their colleagues, have the power to distribute billions of dollars a year to favored programs.

Men talk for hours with the faces of a college of cardinals about things like golf, or tobacco, or waistcoats, or party politics.

Clement also inherited a depleted college of cardinals, consisting of no more than twenty cardinals.

These events are so secret that it is difficult for anyone outside the college of cardinals itself to fully know what goes on, at least for years afterward.

The college of cardinals has been charged with electing the pope for almost 1,000 years, and the first secluded conclave was held more than 700 years ago.

Some proponents of umbrella supervision envision a kind of college of cardinals made up of the heads of the current regulatory bodies.

Accordingly this proposition was put forward in a full consistory, and as the college of cardinals was entirely Alexander's, there was no difficulty about carrying his point.

Baldwin was perhaps the last Prime Minister to treat his Cabinet colleagues, as Gladstone had done, as members of a college of cardinals.

The importance of the papacy and the college of cardinals for internal English politics - not to mention foreign relations - could hardly be more eloquently attested.

Based on a simple majority of the entire college of cardinals, Anacletus was the canonically elected pope, and Innocent was the anti-Pope.

Papal elections were held in the Gothic Palazzo dei Papi where, in 1271, the entire college of cardinals was briefly imprisoned.

Romans predominated in the college of cardinals under both Celestine III and Innocent III.