A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.

Then a letter of Pope Agatho was read that explained the traditional belief of the Church that Christ was of two wills, divine and human.

Pope Pius IV explained to one of his cardinals: the greater part of the nobility of that island take ill the marriage which the said queen designs to enter with the Lord Robert Dudley ... they fear that if he becomes king, he will want to avenge the death of his father, and extirpate the nobility of that kingdom.

Pope John Paul II explained in his Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris ( 11 February 1984 ):" In the Cross of Christ not only is the Redemption accomplished through suffering, but also human suffering itself has been redeemed ... Every man has his own share in the Redemption.

When the Pope explained his purpose, Simon was reluctant at first but when he was told of the Pope's vision, he placed himself at his disposal.

In the 1979 encyclical Redemptor Hominis Pope John Paul II explained the theme of unity of Mary's Immaculate Heart with the Sacred Heart.

During his apostolic visit to Portugal between 11 and 14 May 2010 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Pope Benedict XVI explained in a rare conversation with reporters that the interpretation of the third secret did not stop with the interpretation of a prediction of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square in 1981.

" Lauder later praised Benedict XVI for writing a personal letter to Catholic bishops in which the Pope explained himself.

Mead was so widespread that in the 13th century Prince Leszek I the White explained to the Pope that Polish knights could not participate in a crusade as there was no mead in the Holy Land.

Montagu explained the king's situation, and Pope John XXII asked for a special signal that assure him that he was dealing with the king in person.

In 1717, Pope explained his theory of the pastoral in the Discourse on Pastoral Poetry.

In a rather famous anecdote, Leszek once explained to the Pope that Polish knights could not participate in his Crusade because there was no mead / beer to be had in Palestine.

With the passage of time it was possible to clarify the nature of the actual event that the blessing incurs ; Pope Innocent III in 1202 explained that " among the opinions mentioned that is judged the more probable which asserts that the water with the wine is changed into blood " in reference to the mingling of water with the wine at the Mass ( Dz § 416 ).

According to a Catholic News Service online news story by Carol Glatz from 5 August 2011, Pope Benedict XVI noted this when he explained the importance of astronomy-especially when clocks were primitive and prone to error-in the determination of certain liturgical celebration days and the times for certain daily prayers, such as the Angelus.

The various Dunces had written responses to Pope after the first publication of The Dunciad, and they had not only written against Pope, but had explained why Pope had attacked other writers.

Pope Leo XIII wrote that true science cannot contradict scripture when it is properly explained, that errors the Church Fathers made do not demonstrate error in Scripture, and that what seems to be proved by science can turn out to be wrong.

The Pope did after a while accept Nils as archbishop, but explained that the primate status still was to be upheld.

Pope Benedict XVI maintained those changes and also shortened, as explained below, the ceremony of homage previously paid at a papal inauguration by each cardinal individually, repeating the " act of homage and obedience " made in the conclave to the new pope before the announcement of his election to the people.

He subsequently explained that by this he did not refer to the Roman question, which was permanently settled, but to the possibility of the Pope leaving Rome.

Pope later explained that any depictions of shepherds and their mistresses in the pastoral must not be updated shepherds, that they must be icons of the Golden Age: " we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been, when the best of men followed the employment " ( Gordon ).

In the 1979 encyclical Redemptor Hominis Pope John Paul II explained the theme of unity of Mary's Immaculate Heart with the Sacred Heart.

As we see, Pope may appeal to President Sukarno, Khrushchev's friend, for clemency.

There are a great many bishops who have never had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, a pope much nearer home.

In 1204 his doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to Pope Innocent III, the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and recant his errors.

This was not the first appeal but some have seen the murder of the legate as a turning point in papal policy — whereas it might be more accurate to see it as a fortuitous event in allowing the Pope to excite popular opinion and to renew his pleas for intervention in the south.

Many historians maintain that the main concern of Pope Urban II, when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople from the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

* 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

Pope Gregory I sent Mellitus to England in June 601, in response to an appeal from Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

It took four years and an appeal to the Pope before the body was allowed to be transported to Genoa, but was still not buried.

Things became so unbearable that an appeal was made to the Pope, who then visited Saint Victor in 1162.

Both elections were quashed on appeal to Rome and sixteen monks of Christ Church, who had gone to Rome empowered to act for the whole chapter, were ordered to proceed to a new election in presence of the Pope.

While he bided his time, the Sicilians made an appeal to Pope Martin to take the Communes of their cities under his protection.

They also claim that William went to Rome to appeal to the Pope, where Heraclius had him poisoned.

In his appeal to the terrorists, Pope Paul asked them to release Moro " without conditions ".

Because of the crusading appeal made by Pope Eugene III and his representative Nicholas Brakespear ( the future Pope Hadrian IV ), the siege received the aid of crusaders from multiple nationalities ( Genovese, Anglo-Normans, Normans, Southern-French, Germans, Flemish and Dutch ), who were on their way to the Holy Land.

It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia.

Margaret, however, travelled to Avignon and made a successful appeal to the Pope to reverse the sentence of divorce which had been pronounced against her in Scotland.

In 531 the dispute between Rome and Constantinople was revived by the appeal of Stephen, metropolitan of Larissa, to Pope Boniface II, against the sentence of Epiphanius.

" As the court sentence could not be appealed, Pope Shenouda III said: " We will appeal this sentence before God.

There is no appeal from a court case that the Pope has decided personally.

An appeal was made to Rome, and Pope Leo I used it to extinguish the Gallican vicariate ( 444 ).

Dagobert later went to appeal to Pope Paschal personally.

Later on, following an appeal from Mihailo ’ s son Bodin, in 1089, the Pope enthroned Bar ’ s archdiocese.

Pope worked tirelessly in the 1950s and 1960s to increase the circulation and broaden the tabloid's appeal.