Usage examples for papal:

• The cardinals felt the advisability of choosing for pope a native of the Papal States, a man not too far advanced in years, and one " who would see the necessity of correcting abuses and making some reforms." "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17" – Charles Francis Horne

• Then, when Columbus declared he had sailed west and not south, that Spain herself had warned him to keep clear of Portugal's possessions, and that the lands he had discovered were merely Atlantic islands, they all insisted that " the Indies were the Indies, and belonged by papal authority to Portugal!" "Christopher Columbus" – Mildred Stapley

• After Henry's excommunication every Roman Catholic crew had full Papal sanction for attacking every English crew that would not submit to Rome, no matter how Catholic its faith might be. "Elizabethan Sea Dogs" – William Wood

• He, however, was assured by his friend Remus that the action of the Papal authorities need cause him no anxiety. "The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'" – Thomas Orchard