Papal

papal



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[pey-puhl] 



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–adjective 

1. of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy: a papal visit to Canada. 

2. of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.





　

All of this is done up with a lot of trumpet calls, several parchment [documents], a few parades, a little papal diplomacy, and the background presence of character actors like Trevor Howard. His function in movies like this is to step forward in court from time to time, clear his throat, say, "My lady..." and then summarize the plot.





chapel

His body will repose in the [chapel] for two days.  

pulpit

It's gonna be fine, as long as it blows up the pulpit.

It was a bully pulpit from which to challenge rabble [rousers] like the gay-hating Anita Bryant.

oratorio

musical composition based upon a religious theme, without action, costume, or scenery

canonical

canonical [hours]

Albigensian

It was used by the Cathars to defend themselves during the Albigensian crusades in the 13th century.

Rastafarian

Among the many gifted actors gleefully [chewing] the scenery are Gary Oldman as an unbalanced Rastafarian pimp,

scatology

eschatology

who has just finally delivered the eschatological [sermon] on class that has been building up in him. 

Hierophant