pontiff
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He was still working well into his nineties - last year, after the death of Pope Francis, Willey reflected on how the Vatican had changed under the late pontiff.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The pontiff urged Europe to help new arrivals integrate better and improve conditions in their home countries, during a mass on the island, which receives tens of thousands of migrants a year.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But these days, he’s been attacking Pope Leo XIV, even going so far as to chide the pontiff to “to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
The human resources employee in her 50s found the pontiff "extraordinary" during Saturday's prayer vigil with 500,000 mostly young people, seeing a "very positive message of joy".
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
People aren’t ordinarily carried in chairs in New Hampshire, and as they raised him up he looked very strange to me, like some tragic and exalted personage, a stricken pontiff.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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