NOUN
- the smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929
How To Use The Holy See In A Sentence
- In their reply to this plea the representatives of Scotland re-assert the immemorial suzerainty of the Roman Church over Scotland "the property, the peculiar allodium of the Holy See"; in all controversies, they said, between these equal and independent kingdoms it is to their equal superior, the Church of Rome, that recourse should be had. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Godman devotes significant attention to the 1933 concordat between the Holy See and Germany.
- Bonds with Rome had been strengthened, as the Holy See summoned the meetings, suggested agenda, and approved conciliar decrees.
- This chapter ordinarily meets every six or twelve years, being summoned by the superior general or mother vicaress; but an extraordinary meeting may be called on the occurrence in the vacancy in the office of superior, or for any other grave reason approved by the Holy See. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Bonds with Rome had been strengthened, as the Holy See summoned the meetings, suggested agenda, and approved conciliar decrees.
- In this allocution the pope expressly distinguishes between true and false civilization, and declares that history witnesses to the fact that the Holy See has always been the protector and patron of all genuine civilization; and he affirms that, if a system designed to de-Christianize the world be called a system of progress and civilization, he can never hold out the hand of peace to such a system. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Placentia had been ceded to the holy see as a dependency of the exarchate, asserts that the Greek emperors were justly despoiled of their rights because they had excited the people against God. A Philosophical Dictionary
- The Lateran Treaty signed in 1929 indicates the settlement of the "Rome Problem" and the complete separation of the Holy See and the Italy nation-state.
- And thirdly, the naive and perhaps insular attitude that the various agencies and dicasteries of the Holy See take towards public relations and good press. Stating things clearly...
- It is further to be borne in mind that, four months earlier, the Pope had levied a similar decima, or tax, upon the entire College of Cardinals and every official in the service of the Holy See, for the purposes of the expedition against the Muslim, who was in arms against Christianity. The Life of Cesare Borgia
