pontiff

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Besides the capital, the pontiff will also travel to Lourdes, a site of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Pope Leo XIV will travel to France for an official state visit from September 25 to 28, the Vatican announced on Saturday, in the first such trip by a pontiff in 18 years.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Despite the tensions, the pontiff rolled out the red carpet for Trump’s top diplomat.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

"It was really the wish of the Holy Father to be able to do something for the children of Gaza," a close confidant of the late pontiff, Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Sweden, tells me.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 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