pontiff

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David McLean of Georgetown University and Jeffrey Pontiff of Boston College several years ago calculated that, after stock market strategies were publicized in academic journals, their profitability dropped by 58%, on average.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Edward Berger’s venture into a sequestered gathering of cardinals tasked with selecting a new Supreme Pontiff showcases the standard awards bait signifiers, granted.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

The 87-year-old Pontiff, who was taken to a Roman hospital on Wednesday for diagnostic testing after having to cancel some public audiences, handed his speech to his aide, Mons.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

But while his predecessor Benedict XVI quit the role citing health issues - becoming the first Pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years - Pope Francis has dismissed the possibility of leaving office too.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2023

I stay’d at Rome till Lent was over, that I might have a Sight of the Ceremonies of the Holy Week; at which Time the Court of the Sovereign Pontiff appears in its utmost Splendor.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von