pontiff
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This is Leo’s fourth major trip abroad since becoming pontiff in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Standing on a concrete pedestal, the statue will depict the pontiff with open arms, wearing his long papal robe and a crucifix around his neck.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Soon she was sending videos of the pontiff to her tearful grandparents in Brittany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Willey wrote a book on the late pontiff - The promise of Francis: The man, the Pope, and the challenge of change - which he presented to Francis in 2016.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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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