pontiff
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In Lima, elated Peruvians lined the streets Wednesday afternoon, hoping to find a choice spot from which to cheer on the pontiff, who was expected to travel into downtown Lima in his white popemobile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of people pour onto the Champs-Élysées to greet the pontiff in Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
The pontiff, 71, also said he was "very happy" to be able to make the trip which was thrown into doubt last month when doctors discovered a tumour during a routine scan.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
“Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood,” the pontiff observed in a brief address at a Vatican-sponsored conference on AI on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 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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